Most people refuse to believe that I don't have a FB account... LinkedIn is the only "social" media account I have, and that is for business purposes only.
Not only that, but a tiny bit of googling will show you that he is suspected of funneling these phones to Hezbollah. As they have been classified a terrorist organization by the USA, they're going to throw everything they can at him. The precedent set is unfortunate, but when someone is suspected of providing aid to a terrorist group, what do you expect the government to do? Issue a mild warning not to do it again?
Stories like this make me glad I have a fairly common name that is shared with multiple famous people, including a former NFL player, a dead rapper and a famous architect.
Re:Can someone please explain this Americanism to
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We have this crazy concept of certain jobs being exempt from overtime rules. As a general rule, most salaried positions are classified as exempt, most hourly positions are classified as non-exempt (both are considered full time positions with benefits, vacation, etc.).
Thus, if a salaried person works 60 hours a week, s/he still gets the same pay as when working 40 hours per week. IT is a classic example. Longer workdays, 24x7 oncall rotations, weekend work to implement significant changes... same pay as the normal 40 work weeks.
As the Wikipedia article mentions, Longyearbyen is the northernmost town of 1000+ permanent residents. Any smaller and I wouldn't call it a town... more of a settlement, a village or an outpost.
At the beginning, you picked a door. You had a 1% chance of being right. Even after the other 98 doors are opened, it does not change the fact that you STARTED OFF with a 1% chance of being right. The likelihood you were right has become 50/50, but your initial chance was still 1 in 100. The safe bet is to pick the one other unopened door.
There is a big difference between picking a door, then having 98 wrong doors opened and having 98 doors opened, then picking 1 of the remaining 2 doors.
With the Monty Hall show, you started off with a 1/3 chance. That's not terribly unlikely... over the course of the show's lifetime, switchers should win 2/3 of the time and non-switchers 1/3 of the time. However, YOU only got one shot. Would you switch? I honestly don't know if I would or not.
As a developer, I agree 100% with this. However, my company doesn't provide a day-old cleaned copy of production, so I still need read-access to debug what piece of data is causing catastrophic failure in the customer billing process.
When I have all the tools I need to do my job, then no, I don't need any access to production. When I don't have all the tools I need to do my job, I need to have the ability to look at production. I should never be given the ability to touch production.
Yup.. Cue up the people that spent too much for their Masters and PHD clamoring how they are far better than the unwashed masses...
Those guys must have been doing it all wrong. I spent 5 years in grad school getting my PhD and they paid ME. The average grad student taught 3-4 lab sections per semester, worked 15 hr/wk in the on-campus tutorial center or was on a research stipend. I put in for 4 lab sections AND 10 hr/wk tutoring... was making roughly $22k/yr in the mid-late 90s. It was enough to live a frugal lifestyle and I got my degrees for free.
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I happen to know every word you have written has been published before. Ever hear of the dictionary?
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Most people refuse to believe that I don't have a FB account ... LinkedIn is the only "social" media account I have, and that is for business purposes only.
From their support rep Sheldon: It is recommended that you contact us by phone at 1-888-888-3113 or chat via www.clear.com.
If the customer doesn't have internet access, how the hell do you expect them to chat the internet???
Translations would be nice, but to me, the key point is the last line.
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Not only that, but a tiny bit of googling will show you that he is suspected of funneling these phones to Hezbollah. As they have been classified a terrorist organization by the USA, they're going to throw everything they can at him. The precedent set is unfortunate, but when someone is suspected of providing aid to a terrorist group, what do you expect the government to do? Issue a mild warning not to do it again?
Stories like this make me glad I have a fairly common name that is shared with multiple famous people, including a former NFL player, a dead rapper and a famous architect.
We have this crazy concept of certain jobs being exempt from overtime rules. As a general rule, most salaried positions are classified as exempt, most hourly positions are classified as non-exempt (both are considered full time positions with benefits, vacation, etc.).
Thus, if a salaried person works 60 hours a week, s/he still gets the same pay as when working 40 hours per week. IT is a classic example. Longer workdays, 24x7 oncall rotations, weekend work to implement significant changes ... same pay as the normal 40 work weeks.
Wow, put away your xenophobia for 5 minutes to RTFA. He was a naturalized US Citizen who completed his doctorate at UChicago.
Yeah, it's called Diebold.
As of this posting, it is currently 09 NOV 2010, 18:33 GMT. Try again.
As the Wikipedia article mentions, Longyearbyen is the northernmost town of 1000+ permanent residents. Any smaller and I wouldn't call it a town ... more of a settlement, a village or an outpost.
At the beginning, you picked a door. You had a 1% chance of being right. Even after the other 98 doors are opened, it does not change the fact that you STARTED OFF with a 1% chance of being right. The likelihood you were right has become 50/50, but your initial chance was still 1 in 100. The safe bet is to pick the one other unopened door.
There is a big difference between picking a door, then having 98 wrong doors opened and having 98 doors opened, then picking 1 of the remaining 2 doors.
With the Monty Hall show, you started off with a 1/3 chance. That's not terribly unlikely ... over the course of the show's lifetime, switchers should win 2/3 of the time and non-switchers 1/3 of the time. However, YOU only got one shot. Would you switch? I honestly don't know if I would or not.
Then, every anonymous lawsuit will infringe on your trademark. That way, you can sue lawyers, who are typically rolling in dough!
You gotta know how to talk to admins. Tell them they also can be replaced by a very small shell script.
As a developer, I agree 100% with this. However, my company doesn't provide a day-old cleaned copy of production, so I still need read-access to debug what piece of data is causing catastrophic failure in the customer billing process.
When I have all the tools I need to do my job, then no, I don't need any access to production.
When I don't have all the tools I need to do my job, I need to have the ability to look at production.
I should never be given the ability to touch production.
Beat me to it ... same here.
perhaps the existence of a stalker's online black book might finally persuade less security-minded Facebook users to get their arses in gear.
More likely it will precipitate a lawsuit. Why fix the problem when you can sue the pants off someone instead?
T-minus 4.25 hours and counting...
Yup.. Cue up the people that spent too much for their Masters and PHD clamoring how they are far better than the unwashed masses...
Those guys must have been doing it all wrong. I spent 5 years in grad school getting my PhD and they paid ME. The average grad student taught 3-4 lab sections per semester, worked 15 hr/wk in the on-campus tutorial center or was on a research stipend. I put in for 4 lab sections AND 10 hr/wk tutoring ... was making roughly $22k/yr in the mid-late 90s. It was enough to live a frugal lifestyle and I got my degrees for free.
I happen to know every word you have written has been published before. Ever hear of the dictionary?
I only have one word for you...
Flarglenozzle
Look that up in your dictionary!
You forgot about
* Hot grits
* Natalie Portman
* Naked and Petrified
* Beowulf Clusters
Wait ... is that y2k calling me?
From Borg Gates to Monkey-Boy Ballmer ?
FTFY
I'm thinking it was a round-about way of quitting. I doubt her job will be waiting after the 9 months in jail.
Cary NC is an adjacent suburb southwest of Raleigh NC. The map shows it some 100 miles NORTHwest of Raleigh.
I don't think it's the lawyers who are stupid. They got paid. Now the NPB ... there's the overwhelming case of *whooooosh!*
Are you sure? I have a PhD and sometimes, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I'm just making it up as I go along...
Lucky for society my PhD isn't related to my job.