Lol, 'splattered on some tarmac'... he lands by parachute. It was therefore badass when he flew across the Channel. Buzzing around over land only has the risk of catastrophic parachute malfunction.
The guy who wrote that study saying justices appointed by conservative presidents are 'activists' instead of 'originalists' is far left himself. Check out his book about how FDR's New Deal programs didn't go nearly far enough on social welfare rights.
They aren't supposed to create law but many rulings have that affect. Look at Brown v Board of Education - that judge ordered a bus system and school districts re-arranged to equalize ethnic student mixtures. This didn't explicitly create the same thing as what the legislature produces in terms of "a law" but to pay for the buses taxes had to be raised, something that's normally only done via law by the legislature.
Actually, Scalia was found to be the most activist with Thomas running a close second. Conservative judges were also found to me more activist (willing to strike down rulings that lean towards a liberal bias)
There are two main types of Federal justices: originalists and activists. An activist is not one who rules contrary to prior decisions. An activist justice is one who rules according to his/her view of how things out to be in the modern world. An originalist rules according to how he/she thinks the founders of the country would have thought of the matter. Neither Scalia nor Thomas can be "most activist" or even activist at all; both are well known for quoting historical sources as the basis for their decisions.
I personally care about this article as Canada is a major importer of food (both processed and raw ingredients) from China.
Canadians should be equally concerned that Canada is a major importer of Chinese officials' ill-gotten gains. Many of them feel safe to exacerbate the pollution and corruption problems in China because their families (and bank accounts) are safely accepted into Canada.
People value more things they pay for than things given to them for free. A university education is probably no different. What's needed is an overhaul of what universities teach. How many people complaining they can't find jobs have degrees with no marketable skills like minority struggles or medieval French literature? Schools need to teach people the foundations of useful skills, then getting a job and paying off the loan would be much easier.
For what injustice does Amazon need justice inflicted in this case? They pay more to authors than the agent/publisher route and readers pay less. Sounds like win-win except the middle men who by definition don't do anything except facilitate and there's less and less to facilitate in that industry these days. I guess you like keeping on no longer needed roles out of a sense of pity and welfare?
IANAL but my understanding is that vessels at sea are under the legal jurisdiction of the country whose flag they fly. Warships even remain the territory of their country after being sunk. I'd expect spacecraft would operate under similar rules, especially government owned spacecraft.
By that line of reasoning shouldn't this camera be considered salvage since the owner had ordered it be abandoned?
To Governor Brown: If the supreme court believes this law is unconstitutional, they can strike it down. Don't overstep your powers and do this for them. Unless *YOU,* on behalf of your constituents, have a specific objection: let the law pass.
(For the record, I live in CA and voted for Jerry Brown in the last election)
The SCOTUS *already* struck down something similar; the governor is saving his cash strapped state millions of dollars in legal expenses which he is confident would just result in them pointing at said case they've recently already decided and asking "Did you not pay attention the first time?"
Well, if the other company is "much bigger" and hiring (plus paying more) in the current economy, I don't see any signs that it is a worse place to be in terms of future growth and advancement. If you're working in a company of 10 people, there's only so many layers of advancement compared to working in a company of 10,000.
OTOH, he says they're getting to release a new product. We don't know what it could be. Was someone at Google or Facebook smart to leave when there were only 10 employees for a 10k employee company to go look for potential advancement?
As an IT manager... Being forced to make a decision is not pleasant
The headliner on the list of job duties for "manager" is "making decisions". Perhaps you need to go back to technical work?
. I would much rather have the employee come to me with a business case for giving him or her a raise
The job market indicates this person is worth more by evidence of his new offer; it's up to you as a manager to make the case that you do or do not need to pay that increased amount for this person/skillset/experience level. It's not his problem that the market views his value as increased!
This is very poor advise. Many companies have a "no bargaining" policy
Is this a UK thing? WTF is a "no bargaining" policy? Every employee bargains to get as high a salary and benefit as possible and every employer bargains to pay as little salary as possible. This is called the labor market and is what allows the company that's trying to hire him to offer more that what he's getting now.
My suggestion would be to make a the "Off Topic" moderation disconnect a post from its parent and make it its own thread, preferably at the end of the list. Eventually the active discussion will shift farther down the page and it won't be necessary, while simultaneously not rewarding users who post before reading TFA.
That sounds great at first but people with a partisan axe to grind will disconnect an opposing viewpoint comment to its own thread and thus to obscurity. How would it get back? But mainly this works against the write only nature of the slashdot code. Notice there is no 'edit' for your post once it goes in; this is part of the secret to their fairly good response times. Adding the ability to change the reply-to chain would mean the database would need to be updateable and thus slower.
/.-generated comment at the bottom of this page: "Hempstone's Question: If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class?"
That's pretty obvious since the first class passengers were the ones put in the lifeboats. Most deaths on the Titanic were the peons in third class left.
Are you sure you didn't get that backwards? Your numbers don't pass the smell test, how would being closer to the point of initial impact increase your odds of survival?
In a survivable crash the front of the plane isn't closest to the point of impact because at aircraft speeds a head-on crash will be fatal to everyone. A survivable crash is one where the plane is at least mostly in a normal landing position: parallel to the ground. In this case, every seat is close to the point of impact and its the various structural elements of the plane that help your odds such as the wing and tail support structures. But since the plane will be moving forward and the fuel is in the wings, it seems to me that the people in the tail have the worst odds because all the fuel (fire/smoke) will be blown back on them.
The airlines could start charging you for the little drop down oxygen masks. You know in the event you need it you got to pay. You could charge 5 bucks at the counter and a million dollars on the way down.
Nobody carries that much cash on with them and planes don't crash all that often. A better business model would be to offer "oxygen assurance insurance" for $.05 to everyone on every flight. Want to make sure that in the case of sudden depressurization we remember to flip on the O to your seat? Pony up...
The most significant precedent however, is the US Civil War.
A civil war is one in which two (or more) groups fight for control of the same government. The southern states did not want to control the entire union, therefore it should be called the war for southern independence, not the civil war.
What is this Great Pyramid of Giza unit?!? I demand all mass measurements to be reported in the accepted Elephant units. African or Indian, it's your choice.
As a US citizen, and proud public school graduate, I demand volumes be given in terms of football fields.
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Lol, 'splattered on some tarmac' ... he lands by parachute. It was therefore badass when he flew across the Channel. Buzzing around over land only has the risk of catastrophic parachute malfunction.
It's a cute promo that he 'flies with jets' but notice they had to have their flaps way out to fly slow enough to stay with him.
Wave was amazing.
And no one uses them because in early beta they are closed down.
I tried Wave and it didn't make any damn sense so I didn't use it any more.
The guy who wrote that study saying justices appointed by conservative presidents are 'activists' instead of 'originalists' is far left himself. Check out his book about how FDR's New Deal programs didn't go nearly far enough on social welfare rights.
A judge doesn't "create" law. They interpret it.
They aren't supposed to create law but many rulings have that affect. Look at Brown v Board of Education - that judge ordered a bus system and school districts re-arranged to equalize ethnic student mixtures. This didn't explicitly create the same thing as what the legislature produces in terms of "a law" but to pay for the buses taxes had to be raised, something that's normally only done via law by the legislature.
Actually, Scalia was found to be the most activist with Thomas running a close second. Conservative judges were also found to me more activist (willing to strike down rulings that lean towards a liberal bias)
There are two main types of Federal justices: originalists and activists. An activist is not one who rules contrary to prior decisions. An activist justice is one who rules according to his/her view of how things out to be in the modern world. An originalist rules according to how he/she thinks the founders of the country would have thought of the matter. Neither Scalia nor Thomas can be "most activist" or even activist at all; both are well known for quoting historical sources as the basis for their decisions.
I personally care about this article as Canada is a major importer of food (both processed and raw ingredients) from China.
Canadians should be equally concerned that Canada is a major importer of Chinese officials' ill-gotten gains. Many of them feel safe to exacerbate the pollution and corruption problems in China because their families (and bank accounts) are safely accepted into Canada.
power of this fully operational battle station! Fire at will commander.
I've never understood what Will did that everyone always wants to fire at him.
They added corn to gas...the price didn't go down on gas, it just made the gas people more money and gas worse for people.
Actually the corn in gas requirement makes whopping piles of money for corn farmers, not the gas companies.
People value more things they pay for than things given to them for free. A university education is probably no different. What's needed is an overhaul of what universities teach. How many people complaining they can't find jobs have degrees with no marketable skills like minority struggles or medieval French literature? Schools need to teach people the foundations of useful skills, then getting a job and paying off the loan would be much easier.
Who will inflict justice on Amazon?
For what injustice does Amazon need justice inflicted in this case? They pay more to authors than the agent/publisher route and readers pay less. Sounds like win-win except the middle men who by definition don't do anything except facilitate and there's less and less to facilitate in that industry these days. I guess you like keeping on no longer needed roles out of a sense of pity and welfare?
IANAL but my understanding is that vessels at sea are under the legal jurisdiction of the country whose flag they fly. Warships even remain the territory of their country after being sunk. I'd expect spacecraft would operate under similar rules, especially government owned spacecraft.
By that line of reasoning shouldn't this camera be considered salvage since the owner had ordered it be abandoned?
To Governor Brown: If the supreme court believes this law is unconstitutional, they can strike it down. Don't overstep your powers and do this for them. Unless *YOU,* on behalf of your constituents, have a specific objection: let the law pass.
(For the record, I live in CA and voted for Jerry Brown in the last election)
The SCOTUS *already* struck down something similar; the governor is saving his cash strapped state millions of dollars in legal expenses which he is confident would just result in them pointing at said case they've recently already decided and asking "Did you not pay attention the first time?"
work my tail off (not to mention 2 young children)
It's against several labor laws to work the tails off young children.
Well, if the other company is "much bigger" and hiring (plus paying more) in the current economy, I don't see any signs that it is a worse place to be in terms of future growth and advancement. If you're working in a company of 10 people, there's only so many layers of advancement compared to working in a company of 10,000.
OTOH, he says they're getting to release a new product. We don't know what it could be. Was someone at Google or Facebook smart to leave when there were only 10 employees for a 10k employee company to go look for potential advancement?
As an IT manager ... Being forced to make a decision is not pleasant
The headliner on the list of job duties for "manager" is "making decisions". Perhaps you need to go back to technical work?
. I would much rather have the employee come to me with a business case for giving him or her a raise
The job market indicates this person is worth more by evidence of his new offer; it's up to you as a manager to make the case that you do or do not need to pay that increased amount for this person/skillset/experience level. It's not his problem that the market views his value as increased!
This is very poor advise. Many companies have a "no bargaining" policy
Is this a UK thing? WTF is a "no bargaining" policy? Every employee bargains to get as high a salary and benefit as possible and every employer bargains to pay as little salary as possible. This is called the labor market and is what allows the company that's trying to hire him to offer more that what he's getting now.
I want an option to automatically load all the comments on an article. not 250 at a time, everything. Every time. Automatically.
You must have set something to this. I've never seen a limit. Currently counter at the bottom says '410 of 410 showing'.
My suggestion would be to make a the "Off Topic" moderation disconnect a post from its parent and make it its own thread, preferably at the end of the list. Eventually the active discussion will shift farther down the page and it won't be necessary, while simultaneously not rewarding users who post before reading TFA.
That sounds great at first but people with a partisan axe to grind will disconnect an opposing viewpoint comment to its own thread and thus to obscurity. How would it get back?
But mainly this works against the write only nature of the slashdot code. Notice there is no 'edit' for your post once it goes in; this is part of the secret to their fairly good response times. Adding the ability to change the reply-to chain would mean the database would need to be updateable and thus slower.
/.-generated comment at the bottom of this page: "Hempstone's Question: If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class?"
That's pretty obvious since the first class passengers were the ones put in the lifeboats. Most deaths on the Titanic were the peons in third class left.
Are you sure you didn't get that backwards? Your numbers don't pass the smell test, how would being closer to the point of initial impact increase your odds of survival?
In a survivable crash the front of the plane isn't closest to the point of impact because at aircraft speeds a head-on crash will be fatal to everyone. A survivable crash is one where the plane is at least mostly in a normal landing position: parallel to the ground. In this case, every seat is close to the point of impact and its the various structural elements of the plane that help your odds such as the wing and tail support structures. But since the plane will be moving forward and the fuel is in the wings, it seems to me that the people in the tail have the worst odds because all the fuel (fire/smoke) will be blown back on them.
The airlines could start charging you for the little drop down oxygen masks. You know in the event you need it you got to pay. You could charge 5 bucks at the counter and a million dollars on the way down.
Nobody carries that much cash on with them and planes don't crash all that often. A better business model would be to offer "oxygen assurance insurance" for $.05 to everyone on every flight. Want to make sure that in the case of sudden depressurization we remember to flip on the O to your seat? Pony up...
The most significant precedent however, is the US Civil War.
A civil war is one in which two (or more) groups fight for control of the same government. The southern states did not want to control the entire union, therefore it should be called the war for southern independence, not the civil war.
What is this Great Pyramid of Giza unit?!? I demand all mass measurements to be reported in the accepted Elephant units. African or Indian, it's your choice.
As a US citizen, and proud public school graduate, I demand volumes be given in terms of football fields.
Scientists have been fairly unanimous in predicting warming since the mid 1970's, and so far they've been right.
No, sorry, I remember the 70's and global cooling was all the rage then. Search 'global cooling 1970s'. Global Warming has been since the 90's.