OK, fair point. I should have referenced meteoroids. But still, aside from a sensational headline, wouldn't this usually be classified as a meteoroid rather than an asteroid?
Not necessarily. Remember the fight between Microsoft and Google over the executive? The question there was whether the agreement signed in Washington (where non-competes are valid) was enforceable in California (where non-competes are not valid). When I am employed in California by a company outside of California, I must be paid California's minimum wage (which exceeds the federal minimum wage), which makes me think that the local state's labor code holds sway. There may be other portions of a contract that must be litigated under another state's laws, but at least some are based on the state in which the person is actually employed.
Not always. There are exceptions in some cases for inevitability of discovery. The courts don't treat this lightly, though, and in this case, there does not appear to be anything indicating an inevitable discovery of the evidence. They weren't actively looking for the defendant, and they weren't following his car specifically for counter-drug operations.
The value of a non-compete clause varies by state. In Maryland and Virginia, the courts have deemed that they must be of reasonable length, usually no more than three years, and several decisions have limited the duration to two.
In California, non-compete clauses are simply invalidated by the law. They have little (if any) power here.
In theory, we do not elect them to do our bidding. We elect them to do what they believe is right for the country, on the idea that they are more informed as they have the time (or at least the staff) to research the issues more deeply than the average person can. Sometimes they don't do what is right for the country, in which case they should not be re-elected. They can never just do our bidding, because they have constituents who will not agree on what is best for the country.
While I'm dismayed at the addition of the earmarks, I do feel that the bill was likely necessary. Most people with whom I've discussed it (or overheard discussing it) seem to believe that it's $700 billion that's just out the door, that the government will never see again. The don't know that most of the mortgages to be purchased will be paid off; a majority of even the homeowners with bad credit are still making payments. There is a question -- a giant question -- of what the return will be. If the economy continues to slump, as many believe it will, then the government will likely not get all of its money back. If it recovers -- which it might -- then the government may get the money back or perhaps even make money on it.
But that's not the major point. Banks aren't lending to each other. That creates problems for banks that need to maintain asset minimums, because they can no longer lend out as much. That slows things down. The bad mortgages are weighing down the banks, because if payments aren't made, asset levels decline. Insurance companies that back the securities will have to pay out, and if too many securities tank, they may not have the funding to pay out, leaving their customers without insurance for their remaining securities. They have to cut back their risk taking, maybe even stop it, meaning that their customers no longer have access to the same lines of credit, on which some of them rely from time to time just to make payroll. This kind of thing not only can, but has been and is being noticed.
Still, I worry about the precedent that it sets. This should be done only in the most exceptional of cases. I don't like the government taking direct ownership in private business, as there's far too much temptation to meddle in it. Even if it were non-voting shares, there's too much risk and too much abuse that can come of it.
This is what bothers me most about my Linux station. The services mostly load quickly, but come to a screeching halt when the interfaces need to be brought up, jumping into a fast launch sequence once the DHCP address is acquired. I've not understood why service dependencies cannot be mapped and multiple services brought up at one time (which I gather is the goal of projects like this). Windows pulls it off relatively well. On the same hardware, I have Windows XP and Fedora 9 multibooting, and the Fedora boot time is significantly longer than that of Windows.
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Or they haven't pried open the wreckage enough to find parts.
It should be easy enough to pull satellite photos for that day to determine cloud cover. That would help to determine if weather was a factor. I wonder if the instruments are in good enough condition to determine the last settings; perhaps he thought he was going to clear the ridge but was a few hundred feet too low.
I went through ground school more than a decade ago, and I'm probably going to go back starting this weekend. One of the things my old instructor used to drill into the class was that no matter how good you are, you can still make a mistake that will kill not only you but others in the air and on the ground.
Most airplane accidents are single-aircraft incidents, and most of the problems occur on take-off or landing, well below altitudes where a parachute can be effectively used. The number of lives saved would be negligible. Even if pilots were mandated to know how to use a parachute, most of them would probably stay in the plane to save the passengers, who would be even less likely to know how to use a parachute.
He pushed the envelope in sailing and flying, setting more than 100 records. He was also active with the Boy Scouts at the national level, even heading up the National Eagle Scout Association. He set the bar very high, and inspired thousands, maybe millions. His money was incidental, though it helped him to set those records. It's just the kind of person he was. That's why so many people care about it.
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To be fair, that is from a grand jury indictment, and a statement in an indictment isn't necessarily a proven fact. That it got past the grand jury suggests little more than that the grand jury believed the chances of it were high enough to turn over to trial; without transcripts, there's no way of knowing how strong their belief may have been.
Forgive me for the incessant questions, but banking finance is not one of my strongest fields. I understand in concept how the chain of failures would occur (especially now with foreign central banks stepping in for their own banks), but I'm a little fuzzy on this line:
In this case the APMs and the loosening of the capital reserve on the big boys made for some huge ugly problems.
I think clearing this up would help me on the basic points of this thread, and I thank you for indulging me on this.
That doesn't answer my question of why it's not helping the banks. Is it because the value of the package now fluctuates more rapidly and thus steepened the slope down which the market would go, or is it because it placed a light on a problem that had been previously fairly hidden, bringing forward something that was going to happen anyway?
The whole issue revolves around the new FAS regulation from a year ago (157, if anyone cares)
I wonder if we would have had either a more gentle slope or if the current issues would have been delayed without the presence of this regulation. Do you have any idea about this?
In the local arcades, people who had their timing down would shout, "No, you can't!" in time with that. Even though I stayed away from the game (I've never been good at such games) and stuck to Raiden and pinball games, I still wanted to beat those who said it over the head.
Sprint's phones (at least recently) have been reasonably good at the basics, and I'm generally not unhappy with them. The Sprint version of HTC's Vogue even launched with higher specs than the original. Newer firmware revisions have also included Opera Mobile 8.x, a welcome change from Pocket IE, though not as good as Opera Mobile 9.5. I've yet to play much with Skyfire, which just went open beta, but I look forward to the competition.
That said, Sprint's refusal to implement MMS and instead require an unnecessarily complicated mechanism for sending photos to others' phones (requiring signing up for another service and then sending the images through a separate application) has caused more than one person I know to drop them and move to other services. In all cases, they've been unhappy (AT&T's sometimes problematic speeds and Verizon's nerfed phones), except for one person who was delighted overall with T-Mobile. Sprint is reportedly testing an MMS application (I think I saw a cab somewhere, but the service doesn't properly register with the carrier), and has promised a solution by November. If they can pull it off, it will remove one of the biggest complaints against them (other than sometimes sparse coverage). If it remains more than just a couple of button presses and requires additional service setup, they're going to get justifiably lambasted.
I am kind of annoyed that they pulled the video conference camera from the front of the HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro. I thought that might be a killer service to offer, especially for businesses (my employer is investigating video conferencing solutions), but for whatever reasons, they decided not to allow it.
Summary: All of the carriers have points that seem deliberately designed to annoy customers, and the customer is left to figure out which set of annoyances bothers them least, and go for that.
For reference, the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate President pro Tempore receive salaries of $133,639 per year. The Minority Floor Leader also gets this pay level, while the Majority Floor Leader and Second Ranking Minority Floor Leader get $124,923. All other members of the legislature get $116,208. All members of the legislature are allowed $170 per diem for living and travel expenses while they are traveling to or from or engaged in any legislative activity (including committees) so long as any recess in these activities is not longer than three days.
I would also vote for an initiative that would prevent legislators from drawing a salary or a per diem while the budget is late, and that these monies would be prohibited from being retroactively paid.
People should not be demanding the rights granted to nor the limitations placed on them by their particular Country decides. It can make for a confusing mix on occasion, but it's better than settling for the lowest common denominator.
That number is badly out of date. While it's still high in comparison to some European nations, the firearm homicide rate is down to about 4.0 per 100,000 as of 2007.
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OK, fair point. I should have referenced meteoroids. But still, aside from a sensational headline, wouldn't this usually be classified as a meteoroid rather than an asteroid?
I thought bodies this small were usually referred to as meteors. What's the difference?
Not necessarily. Remember the fight between Microsoft and Google over the executive? The question there was whether the agreement signed in Washington (where non-competes are valid) was enforceable in California (where non-competes are not valid). When I am employed in California by a company outside of California, I must be paid California's minimum wage (which exceeds the federal minimum wage), which makes me think that the local state's labor code holds sway. There may be other portions of a contract that must be litigated under another state's laws, but at least some are based on the state in which the person is actually employed.
This is why labor attorneys exist.
Users tend to be fearful of command lines. They're afraid of mistakes that will wreck something badly.
Not always. There are exceptions in some cases for inevitability of discovery. The courts don't treat this lightly, though, and in this case, there does not appear to be anything indicating an inevitable discovery of the evidence. They weren't actively looking for the defendant, and they weren't following his car specifically for counter-drug operations.
The value of a non-compete clause varies by state. In Maryland and Virginia, the courts have deemed that they must be of reasonable length, usually no more than three years, and several decisions have limited the duration to two.
In California, non-compete clauses are simply invalidated by the law. They have little (if any) power here.
In theory, we do not elect them to do our bidding. We elect them to do what they believe is right for the country, on the idea that they are more informed as they have the time (or at least the staff) to research the issues more deeply than the average person can. Sometimes they don't do what is right for the country, in which case they should not be re-elected. They can never just do our bidding, because they have constituents who will not agree on what is best for the country.
While I'm dismayed at the addition of the earmarks, I do feel that the bill was likely necessary. Most people with whom I've discussed it (or overheard discussing it) seem to believe that it's $700 billion that's just out the door, that the government will never see again. The don't know that most of the mortgages to be purchased will be paid off; a majority of even the homeowners with bad credit are still making payments. There is a question -- a giant question -- of what the return will be. If the economy continues to slump, as many believe it will, then the government will likely not get all of its money back. If it recovers -- which it might -- then the government may get the money back or perhaps even make money on it.
But that's not the major point. Banks aren't lending to each other. That creates problems for banks that need to maintain asset minimums, because they can no longer lend out as much. That slows things down. The bad mortgages are weighing down the banks, because if payments aren't made, asset levels decline. Insurance companies that back the securities will have to pay out, and if too many securities tank, they may not have the funding to pay out, leaving their customers without insurance for their remaining securities. They have to cut back their risk taking, maybe even stop it, meaning that their customers no longer have access to the same lines of credit, on which some of them rely from time to time just to make payroll. This kind of thing not only can, but has been and is being noticed.
Still, I worry about the precedent that it sets. This should be done only in the most exceptional of cases. I don't like the government taking direct ownership in private business, as there's far too much temptation to meddle in it. Even if it were non-voting shares, there's too much risk and too much abuse that can come of it.
I prefer doubloons per league.
Thank you very much for that. I will have to play with it.
And keep my rescue disc around for when I render my system useless. :)
This is what bothers me most about my Linux station. The services mostly load quickly, but come to a screeching halt when the interfaces need to be brought up, jumping into a fast launch sequence once the DHCP address is acquired. I've not understood why service dependencies cannot be mapped and multiple services brought up at one time (which I gather is the goal of projects like this). Windows pulls it off relatively well. On the same hardware, I have Windows XP and Fedora 9 multibooting, and the Fedora boot time is significantly longer than that of Windows.
Or they haven't pried open the wreckage enough to find parts.
It should be easy enough to pull satellite photos for that day to determine cloud cover. That would help to determine if weather was a factor. I wonder if the instruments are in good enough condition to determine the last settings; perhaps he thought he was going to clear the ridge but was a few hundred feet too low.
I went through ground school more than a decade ago, and I'm probably going to go back starting this weekend. One of the things my old instructor used to drill into the class was that no matter how good you are, you can still make a mistake that will kill not only you but others in the air and on the ground.
Most airplane accidents are single-aircraft incidents, and most of the problems occur on take-off or landing, well below altitudes where a parachute can be effectively used. The number of lives saved would be negligible. Even if pilots were mandated to know how to use a parachute, most of them would probably stay in the plane to save the passengers, who would be even less likely to know how to use a parachute.
He pushed the envelope in sailing and flying, setting more than 100 records. He was also active with the Boy Scouts at the national level, even heading up the National Eagle Scout Association. He set the bar very high, and inspired thousands, maybe millions. His money was incidental, though it helped him to set those records. It's just the kind of person he was. That's why so many people care about it.
To be fair, that is from a grand jury indictment, and a statement in an indictment isn't necessarily a proven fact. That it got past the grand jury suggests little more than that the grand jury believed the chances of it were high enough to turn over to trial; without transcripts, there's no way of knowing how strong their belief may have been.
Forgive me for the incessant questions, but banking finance is not one of my strongest fields. I understand in concept how the chain of failures would occur (especially now with foreign central banks stepping in for their own banks), but I'm a little fuzzy on this line:
In this case the APMs and the loosening of the capital reserve on the big boys made for some huge ugly problems.
I think clearing this up would help me on the basic points of this thread, and I thank you for indulging me on this.
That doesn't answer my question of why it's not helping the banks. Is it because the value of the package now fluctuates more rapidly and thus steepened the slope down which the market would go, or is it because it placed a light on a problem that had been previously fairly hidden, bringing forward something that was going to happen anyway?
The whole issue revolves around the new FAS regulation from a year ago (157, if anyone cares)
I wonder if we would have had either a more gentle slope or if the current issues would have been delayed without the presence of this regulation. Do you have any idea about this?
In the local arcades, people who had their timing down would shout, "No, you can't!" in time with that. Even though I stayed away from the game (I've never been good at such games) and stuck to Raiden and pinball games, I still wanted to beat those who said it over the head.
Sprint's phones (at least recently) have been reasonably good at the basics, and I'm generally not unhappy with them. The Sprint version of HTC's Vogue even launched with higher specs than the original. Newer firmware revisions have also included Opera Mobile 8.x, a welcome change from Pocket IE, though not as good as Opera Mobile 9.5. I've yet to play much with Skyfire, which just went open beta, but I look forward to the competition.
That said, Sprint's refusal to implement MMS and instead require an unnecessarily complicated mechanism for sending photos to others' phones (requiring signing up for another service and then sending the images through a separate application) has caused more than one person I know to drop them and move to other services. In all cases, they've been unhappy (AT&T's sometimes problematic speeds and Verizon's nerfed phones), except for one person who was delighted overall with T-Mobile. Sprint is reportedly testing an MMS application (I think I saw a cab somewhere, but the service doesn't properly register with the carrier), and has promised a solution by November. If they can pull it off, it will remove one of the biggest complaints against them (other than sometimes sparse coverage). If it remains more than just a couple of button presses and requires additional service setup, they're going to get justifiably lambasted.
I am kind of annoyed that they pulled the video conference camera from the front of the HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro. I thought that might be a killer service to offer, especially for businesses (my employer is investigating video conferencing solutions), but for whatever reasons, they decided not to allow it.
Summary: All of the carriers have points that seem deliberately designed to annoy customers, and the customer is left to figure out which set of annoyances bothers them least, and go for that.
They're not precisely throwaway, either, since the stages are designed to be recovered, refurbished, and relaunched.
Does the price include the cost of the Super Glue needed after the last three attempts? :)
(It's a joke. Really it is. I want these guys to succeed, and I've watched two of the three launch attempts.)
That depends on when the statistic from Chile was gathered.
For reference, the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate President pro Tempore receive salaries of $133,639 per year. The Minority Floor Leader also gets this pay level, while the Majority Floor Leader and Second Ranking Minority Floor Leader get $124,923. All other members of the legislature get $116,208. All members of the legislature are allowed $170 per diem for living and travel expenses while they are traveling to or from or engaged in any legislative activity (including committees) so long as any recess in these activities is not longer than three days.
I would also vote for an initiative that would prevent legislators from drawing a salary or a per diem while the budget is late, and that these monies would be prohibited from being retroactively paid.
People should not be demanding the rights granted to nor the limitations placed on them by their particular Country decides. It can make for a confusing mix on occasion, but it's better than settling for the lowest common denominator.
That number is badly out of date. While it's still high in comparison to some European nations, the firearm homicide rate is down to about 4.0 per 100,000 as of 2007.