really? cite the appropriate law you are referring to............ didn't think you could.
the main problem is is that most states in the U.S.A. are right-to-work states. you have the right to work and that is the only right you have. there are very few constraints against what an employer may or may not ask. specifically, an employer may not ask you certain questions. if he does he is breaking the law and you can sue. HOWEVER, if you VOLUNTEER the information w/o them asking, then they have not broken the law UNLESS they use that information to discriminate in not hiring you, which opens a difficult can of worms to prove in court.
as for salary questions, you have salary options.
1- tell them you are under an NDA and cannot discuss this. this makes it a legal issue and they could be forcing you to break the law which would then make them legally liable
2- turnabout is fair play. ask them how much they are making. what? they won't divulge? show indignation about how they expect openness and honesty from you but they won't show the same consideration for you.
3- checkout www.asktheheadhunter.com and read up on other techniques
Generally, larger units tend to be more efficient, so you should be saving money everywhere
not true. you are confusing size with efficiency. you need a certain size in order to cool a certain amount of space effectively; too small and it never turns off, too large and it constantly turns on/off thereby shortening its life. you need a certain efficiency in order to save money.
it's just like buying a car and choosing the right engine for it. typically a smaller engine for better fuel efficiency, while a larger engine for more pulling power. and even then there are differences such as choosing diesel over gasoline if you are always pulling a load. reason? diesel engines generate MUCH more torque per energy unit than gas and the engines on the average last a lot longer than gas. but I digress.
you need to figure out how much heat/BTU's you will be generating, or could generate, tack on a reasonable safety factor above that, then select the appropriate unit. since I don't have the floorplans to your house, I can't advise on what to do. if you have a one-story, you could conceivable get away with no a/c unit at all and vent directly to the attic with enough airflow. this also depends on where you live and what your local climate is like. the above suggestion wouldn't work for me since I have a 2-story and live in Austin Texas where it got hot as hell this last summer and I had an old inefficient failing heat pump I couldn't afford to replace at the time so it ran constantly.
man, you solved it the hard way. it says a windowless room. therefore, all I have to do is get down on the floor after flipping each switch. if I see light coming out from under the door, ergo, I have my solution. there is no other light source, doors are required to have those gaps underneath in order to allow for building ventilation, and whatever M$ doesn't tell me about the conditions of the room, I can modify to my advantage.
an even easier solution would be to get a fireaxe, chop a hole in the door, and flip switches while I looked thru the hole. haven't opened the door and I've solved it in even less time than your method.
when dealing with idiotic interview questions like this, use the unexpected solution.
just because it's nuclear doesn't necessarily make it a bigger risk. our naval reactors are designed so that if power fails, the damping rods slide back down inside the pile.
there's also surface ships. like aircraft carriers, that carry thousands of sailors. surface ships typically rely on counter-measures, such as the prairie-masking system, to save their asses. subs rely on stealth and quiet to avoid being heard in the first place.
$75/month for an electric bill? what, you have a 200sqft house? I would die for an electric bill that low. Try living in Austin, TX, where my electric bill last month was $375 (.082/kwh) for a 2460sqft house with 4ton install. And this was when the temps were averaging about 100+ for several weeks in a row and I kept the t-stat at an average of 78F during the day.
as for geothermal, for those of us with a regular electric bill, the payback vs cost is very fast. I would love to install one except for the fact that my house (like most in Austin) sits on a parcel of land that has solid rock about 2-3 feet down.
you are correct to a certain extent but let me explain it a bit clearer, if I may.
UE benefits in Texas run no longer than 6 months and a max of @ $330/wk and you must prove that you are looking for work. If after 6/8 wks you still have no offers, you are required to lower your minimum acceptable salary 25% as compared to your prior salary. If you are offered a job within this range and do not accept, you just lost UE money.
when you file for unemployment (UE), at least in Texas, your prior employer is notified of your potential claim and asked about the circumstances. many of them will claim you quit. if you decide not to fight it because many times it is just not worth the hassle of trying to prove the malfeasance, they have saved themselves a ton of money. remember, there is a presumption on the part of state law that you quit your job unless you can prove otherwise.
unless you can prove that they discriminated against you, and you immediately disagreed, you are SOL. example - your company moves 20-30 miles further away from your house. at first, you think it won't be that big a deal. however, after 2-3 months, it is a problem, so you quit. you no longer qualify for UE because....you accepted the new working conditions implicitly by going to the new location. if you had quit right away, you would have gotten UE. think this is impossible? check out the state of Texas website Appeals Policy and Precedence Manual (in PDF) at www.twc.state.tx.us. they've got some wild ones in there.
you don't quite understand the point. that's ok, nobody else here seems to either.
if you are fired w/o cause, you can claim unemployment. guess who gets dinged for the unemployment claim? that's right, the last employer. they pay a certain amount to the state workforce commission for future unemployment claims like this. if a claim is held to be valid, then their unemployment tax percentage actually goes UP. why do you think that most employers say you were fired for cause? because they know it's gonna cost them more in the long run.
this is why it is so hard to fight the system in most states unless you have solid evidence of malfeasance/harassment/stupidity on the part of the employer.
what a load of bullshit! just shut the f*ck up since you: a) don't know what the f*ck you are taking about, and b)obviously lying. Only in your wet and wildest dreams would such a scenario happen. You probably have wet dreams where they tell you to 'squeal like a piggie'.
Masters Degrees are very expensive. Where is the person supposed to get the money to pay for one?
from your employer...duh. and if your employer doesn't pay for it, then find another employer who values you as a human being and wants you to become better at your job.
yes, the thinner paper does cause this problem. also, don't forget the 'lint' that recycled paper generally contains. it coats the rollers and makes 'em slick.
as for the HP fix that "jams down", what it does is stick a piece of cork on the original rubber pad that prevented multiple pages from feeding. while I didn't have a problem, I did hear of some horror stories about the cork pad disintegrating and falling into the printer to cause even bigger problems. I used a $25 repair kit to replace rollers and sticky pad that was well worth the money.
I searched and didn't find one reference to Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, or PATRIOT Act in any of the responses. Without knowing the whole story, this guy would appear to be S.O.L. Electronic payment systems are run thru the federal clearinghouse system. Some methods, such as wire transfers, have a 24 hour life. Other methods, such as an electronic payment, have somewhere between 30-60 days.
The only person who appears to have screwed up in this case is the account owner. Now, if the financial institution actually had a policy in place to contact their customers in this eventuality and they didn't contact him, then they are at fault. However, they are not required by law to have such a policy and it is strictly a courtesy.
As a former financial institution examiner, I have a bit of familiarity with these laws so I qualify my statements above with this, "IANAL. Do not rely on my experience to be the final answer. It behooves you to understand the law and your responsibilities in respect to maintaining/guarding your account."
Start reading here for the real stuff. They even list the idiots who thought they could get away with fraud while working at a financial institution. Makes for entertaining reading how stupid some of these people are.
http://ncua.gov/RegulationsOpinionsLaws/index.ht m
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and this is unusual how? even the rest of the French countryside hates the Parisians.
during my 3 day trip in Paris 8-1/2 yrs ago, half the people were rude, half very polite. when I went to Dijon, 100% were polite. very little to draw proper conclusions from, but as anecdotal evidence, I've had other French people tell me that all Parisians are snobby and rude. my father is married to a German lady and has lived in Germany for the last 20 years, even they can tell when the Parisians come visiting. while in Paris, we visited a friend who spoke fluent French and had been there as a student for 2 years. she mentioned to us about how she had seen Parisians treat non-Parisians like dirt (like the time an American got on the bus and tried to ask the driver politely a question who pretended not to understand but who only moments before had been speaking with another passenger in very passable English).
and as for the Texas thing, I live in Austin. EVERYBODY here hates Bush! (except for those pissant Republicans who gerrymandered our city into 3 separate Congressional districts because they couldn't win a vote here otherwise in our heavily Democratic region) want to see how we got screwed? take a look here:
-http://gis1.tlc.state.tx.us/ -click on "U.S. Congressional Districts in Effect for the 2004 Elections: PLANC01374" -look for the pink District 21, khaki 25, and purple 10 where they all come together at just right of the center -now, repeat after me "boy, they got screwed! their district even bypasses San Antonio 90 miles south with a strip about 500meters wide to keep going south another 200 miles!"
already been done. don't you remember the Gilligan's Island episode where the guy surfed in and then surfed back out and lost his memory when he reached Hawaii so Gilligan couldn't be rescued once again?:P)
so an AC tries to flame me and doesn't know shite. not surprising. at least he signed it correctly as Moron.
line of sight for a 6' high person is 17 miles,at most, on a flat surface. as for a line of sight target, as someone else pointed out, this does not rule out airborne targets. also, at the height above the sea level that the railgun will be mounted at, probably 50-100 ft above the waterline (wild guess), it will have an effective range of at least 50 miles to the horizon.
yeah, you learn these things when you serve in the Navy. now go pack to your fudgepacking buddies, nub.
yeah, but a railgun is mostly a line-of-sight weapon. at the speeds the "bullet" is traveling, there is effectively no arc to it, unlike a conventional artillery shell from cannon. so, Paris being 110 miles from the coast don't mean nothing when you got lots of other stuff in the way. you have to have the target in your sights.
Slashdot Mirror
they can't legally ask you that question
really? cite the appropriate law you are referring to............ didn't think you could.
the main problem is is that most states in the U.S.A. are right-to-work states. you have the right to work and that is the only right you have. there are very few constraints against what an employer may or may not ask. specifically, an employer may not ask you certain questions. if he does he is breaking the law and you can sue. HOWEVER, if you VOLUNTEER the information w/o them asking, then they have not broken the law UNLESS they use that information to discriminate in not hiring you, which opens a difficult can of worms to prove in court.
as for salary questions, you have salary options.
1- tell them you are under an NDA and cannot discuss this. this makes it a legal issue and they could be forcing you to break the law which would then make them legally liable
2- turnabout is fair play. ask them how much they are making. what? they won't divulge? show indignation about how they expect openness and honesty from you but they won't show the same consideration for you.
3- checkout www.asktheheadhunter.com and read up on other techniques
damn! wish I still had my old teeter-totter watch from when I was in kindergarten. show up all you guys!
uhhhhhh, how do you "download only the graphics that look useful" if you haven't downloaded them yet and therefore can't see them?
Generally, larger units tend to be more efficient, so you should be saving money everywhere
not true. you are confusing size with efficiency. you need a certain size in order to cool a certain amount of space effectively; too small and it never turns off, too large and it constantly turns on/off thereby shortening its life. you need a certain efficiency in order to save money.
it's just like buying a car and choosing the right engine for it. typically a smaller engine for better fuel efficiency, while a larger engine for more pulling power. and even then there are differences such as choosing diesel over gasoline if you are always pulling a load. reason? diesel engines generate MUCH more torque per energy unit than gas and the engines on the average last a lot longer than gas. but I digress.
you need to figure out how much heat/BTU's you will be generating, or could generate, tack on a reasonable safety factor above that, then select the appropriate unit. since I don't have the floorplans to your house, I can't advise on what to do. if you have a one-story, you could conceivable get away with no a/c unit at all and vent directly to the attic with enough airflow. this also depends on where you live and what your local climate is like. the above suggestion wouldn't work for me since I have a 2-story and live in Austin Texas where it got hot as hell this last summer and I had an old inefficient failing heat pump I couldn't afford to replace at the time so it ran constantly.
good luck.
"Na na na na na na na na
Sheets of Egyptian cotton"
"Na na na na na na na na
Sheets of Egyptian cotton"
that's how we treat this problem.....:)
man, you solved it the hard way. it says a windowless room. therefore, all I have to do is get down on the floor after flipping each switch. if I see light coming out from under the door, ergo, I have my solution. there is no other light source, doors are required to have those gaps underneath in order to allow for building ventilation, and whatever M$ doesn't tell me about the conditions of the room, I can modify to my advantage.
an even easier solution would be to get a fireaxe, chop a hole in the door, and flip switches while I looked thru the hole. haven't opened the door and I've solved it in even less time than your method.
when dealing with idiotic interview questions like this, use the unexpected solution.
just because it's nuclear doesn't necessarily make it a bigger risk. our naval reactors are designed so that if power fails, the damping rods slide back down inside the pile.
Silent Service (SSN)
your ignorance is showing. submarines use torpedoes all the time to sink surface ships.
Silent Service (SSN)
there's also surface ships. like aircraft carriers, that carry thousands of sailors. surface ships typically rely on counter-measures, such as the prairie-masking system, to save their asses. subs rely on stealth and quiet to avoid being heard in the first place.
Windows is a very effective hammer ;)
...especially if you're trying to put a screw in!
heh! heh! He said 'screw'! -Beavis
$75/month for an electric bill? what, you have a 200sqft house? I would die for an electric bill that low. Try living in Austin, TX, where my electric bill last month was $375 (.082/kwh) for a 2460sqft house with 4ton install. And this was when the temps were averaging about 100+ for several weeks in a row and I kept the t-stat at an average of 78F during the day.
as for geothermal, for those of us with a regular electric bill, the payback vs cost is very fast. I would love to install one except for the fact that my house (like most in Austin) sits on a parcel of land that has solid rock about 2-3 feet down.
you are correct to a certain extent but let me explain it a bit clearer, if I may.
UE benefits in Texas run no longer than 6 months and a max of @ $330/wk and you must prove that you are looking for work. If after 6/8 wks you still have no offers, you are required to lower your minimum acceptable salary 25% as compared to your prior salary. If you are offered a job within this range and do not accept, you just lost UE money.
when you file for unemployment (UE), at least in Texas, your prior employer is notified of your potential claim and asked about the circumstances. many of them will claim you quit. if you decide not to fight it because many times it is just not worth the hassle of trying to prove the malfeasance, they have saved themselves a ton of money. remember, there is a presumption on the part of state law that you quit your job unless you can prove otherwise.
unless you can prove that they discriminated against you, and you immediately disagreed, you are SOL. example - your company moves 20-30 miles further away from your house. at first, you think it won't be that big a deal. however, after 2-3 months, it is a problem, so you quit. you no longer qualify for UE because....you accepted the new working conditions implicitly by going to the new location. if you had quit right away, you would have gotten UE. think this is impossible? check out the state of Texas website Appeals Policy and Precedence Manual (in PDF) at www.twc.state.tx.us. they've got some wild ones in there.
you don't quite understand the point. that's ok, nobody else here seems to either.
if you are fired w/o cause, you can claim unemployment. guess who gets dinged for the unemployment claim? that's right, the last employer. they pay a certain amount to the state workforce commission for future unemployment claims like this. if a claim is held to be valid, then their unemployment tax percentage actually goes UP. why do you think that most employers say you were fired for cause? because they know it's gonna cost them more in the long run.
this is why it is so hard to fight the system in most states unless you have solid evidence of malfeasance/harassment/stupidity on the part of the employer.
what a load of bullshit! just shut the f*ck up since you: a) don't know what the f*ck you are taking about, and b)obviously lying. Only in your wet and wildest dreams would such a scenario happen. You probably have wet dreams where they tell you to 'squeal like a piggie'.
Masters Degrees are very expensive. Where is the person supposed to get the money to pay for one?
from your employer...duh. and if your employer doesn't pay for it, then find another employer who values you as a human being and wants you to become better at your job.
that's all? geez, I still run a #9 Imagine series II w/ 4MB RAM. solid card, no problems.
yes, the thinner paper does cause this problem. also, don't forget the 'lint' that recycled paper generally contains. it coats the rollers and makes 'em slick.
as for the HP fix that "jams down", what it does is stick a piece of cork on the original rubber pad that prevented multiple pages from feeding. while I didn't have a problem, I did hear of some horror stories about the cork pad disintegrating and falling into the printer to cause even bigger problems. I used a $25 repair kit to replace rollers and sticky pad that was well worth the money.
I searched and didn't find one reference to Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, or PATRIOT Act in any of the responses. Without knowing the whole story, this guy would appear to be S.O.L. Electronic payment systems are run thru the federal clearinghouse system. Some methods, such as wire transfers, have a 24 hour life. Other methods, such as an electronic payment, have somewhere between 30-60 days.
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The only person who appears to have screwed up in this case is the account owner. Now, if the financial institution actually had a policy in place to contact their customers in this eventuality and they didn't contact him, then they are at fault. However, they are not required by law to have such a policy and it is strictly a courtesy.
As a former financial institution examiner, I have a bit of familiarity with these laws so I qualify my statements above with this, "IANAL. Do not rely on my experience to be the final answer. It behooves you to understand the law and your responsibilities in respect to maintaining/guarding your account."
Start reading here for the real stuff. They even list the idiots who thought they could get away with fraud while working at a financial institution. Makes for entertaining reading how stupid some of these people are.
http://ncua.gov/RegulationsOpinionsLaws/index.h
http://ncua.gov/administrative_orders/Admin/200
electronical? mus' be that newfangled method I done did been hearing uv...
and this is unusual how? even the rest of the French countryside hates the Parisians.
during my 3 day trip in Paris 8-1/2 yrs ago, half the people were rude, half very polite. when I went to Dijon, 100% were polite. very little to draw proper conclusions from, but as anecdotal evidence, I've had other French people tell me that all Parisians are snobby and rude. my father is married to a German lady and has lived in Germany for the last 20 years, even they can tell when the Parisians come visiting.
while in Paris, we visited a friend who spoke fluent French and had been there as a student for 2 years. she mentioned to us about how she had seen Parisians treat non-Parisians like dirt (like the time an American got on the bus and tried to ask the driver politely a question who pretended not to understand but who only moments before had been speaking with another passenger in very passable English).
and as for the Texas thing, I live in Austin. EVERYBODY here hates Bush! (except for those pissant Republicans who gerrymandered our city into 3 separate Congressional districts because they couldn't win a vote here otherwise in our heavily Democratic region)
want to see how we got screwed? take a look here:
-http://gis1.tlc.state.tx.us/
-click on "U.S. Congressional Districts in Effect for the 2004 Elections: PLANC01374"
-look for the pink District 21, khaki 25, and purple 10 where they all come together at just right of the center
-now, repeat after me "boy, they got screwed! their district even bypasses San Antonio 90 miles south with a strip about 500meters wide to keep going south another 200 miles!"
yeah, Tom DeLay, we're gunning for your ass...
Steve? Steve Balmer? is that you? thanks for sticking up for my baby
luv,
BillG
The house is on fire, its roof is burning.
so let the motherf*cker burn?
already been done. don't you remember the Gilligan's Island episode where the guy surfed in and then surfed back out and lost his memory when he reached Hawaii so Gilligan couldn't be rescued once again? :P)
so an AC tries to flame me and doesn't know shite. not surprising. at least he signed it correctly as Moron.
line of sight for a 6' high person is 17 miles,at most, on a flat surface. as for a line of sight target, as someone else pointed out, this does not rule out airborne targets. also, at the height above the sea level that the railgun will be mounted at, probably 50-100 ft above the waterline (wild guess), it will have an effective range of at least 50 miles to the horizon.
yeah, you learn these things when you serve in the Navy. now go pack to your fudgepacking buddies, nub.
yeah, but a railgun is mostly a line-of-sight weapon. at the speeds the "bullet" is traveling, there is effectively no arc to it, unlike a conventional artillery shell from cannon.
so, Paris being 110 miles from the coast don't mean nothing when you got lots of other stuff in the way. you have to have the target in your sights.