Even in the EU with all the employment protections that we have, the CEO could be dismissed for bringing the firm into disrepute for his initial defense of the actions of his employees. To be honest that would in my view be a fair outcome, his actions in part have lead the wiping of tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of the share price of the firm.
I would expect to also see whoever was in charge of getting people to get bumped, dismissed for failure to do their job and bringing the firm into disrepute. All reports indicate that they they stopped at $800 when looking for volunteers. I am quite sure had they kept going they would have found another person to volunteer. That is unless there was a company policy that limited it to $800, in which case the person responsible for the policy needs sacking.
The captain on the plane should be prosecuted for illegally asking the passenger to leave. United had the right to deny boarding, but he was already boarded at which point the pilots authority to arbitrarily deny boarding ended, further it seems you can only deny boarding if the plane is overbooked, and they where bumping people for four United employees that almost certainly didn't have a booking.
The three security officers need prosecuting for assault, because as the passenger was boarded the pilot had no legal authority to have him removed (he was not disruptive till they tried to remove him) so they where acting without legal authority to do so. There bad for just assuming the captain had issued a legally valid order, because following orders is not a valid legal defense.
Finally the four United crew members who turned up last minute at the gate need investigating and potentially disciplining. They should have given more warning of their intentions (like turning up at the gate before the plane was boarded at a minimum) assuming they where not assigned last minute to get on that flight, at which point whoever made that last minute assignment needs investigating and potentially disciplining; why where they assigning flight crew at the last minute.
Except Plex can do recorded TV. Its a bit limited in the devices it currently supports though. Personally speaking being in the UK there are very good catchup options for almost all channels that I would care about. So unless I want to keep the program for some reason and its not on the BBC (get_iplayer does if it is not a film and even then some are on iplayer) then recording TV is not much used, but my Plex server has tvheadend on for good measure. The main thing I have recorded is "Blaze and the monster machines", which is not for me personally and I would purchased the DVD's if they existed in the UK.
That correspondent is almost certainly wrong in law. The pilot has to have a valid legal reason for asking you to leave, which in this case he did not. Yes you can be arbitrarily denied boarding, but he was already boarded and addition the bumbing was for United employees not paying customers so bumbing him from the plane was a breach of contract, and up till the point he was forced off he was not disruptive. Being a pilot does not give you god like powers.
The most obvious was I can explain it would be if the pilot had come out and said get that black bastard of my plane to a person of African descent. Still think that would be legal?
While the IRA could be defined as being Roman Catholic, the reason for there terrorism was not prima facie down to their religion, and their goals where not in any way shape or form religious in nature.
The reason behind the IRA terrorism was the blatant and overt oppression of Roman Catholics by Protestants in Northern Ireland. Their goal was/is to succeed from the United Kingdom and unite with the rest of the island of Ireland and free themselves from the really quite horrendous oppression they where under.
On the other hand Islamist terrorists are doing it all in the name of religion and their goals are religious in nature. So for example the goal of Daesh is to convert the entire world to Islam, killing those who refuse on the way.
That is why despite being based in religion nobody in their right mind ever called the IRA Christian terrorists, apart from the fact that it would need to be Roman Catholic terrorists anyway, and I am quite sure many of them never actually attended church on a regular basis.
How come the two Steve's (aka Jobs and Woz) where never arrested then? They sold devices with the express intention of breaking the law. Or does the fact they used the money to start Apple give them a free pass?
He is also ignoring the fact that various "metal"-air batteries eg. Al,Zn or Li have energy densities that are comparable to fossil fuels. So gasoline is ~13 kWh/kg and a Li air battery is ~12kWh/kg. Of course neither actually achieve this but a metal air battery should be able to deliver comparable useful power to fossil fuels on a mass for mass basis.
No in the past the USA would just refuse to extradite people to face terrorist charges to European countries. I know for certain this applied to both the UK and France, and included terrorists who where Muslim.
Heck the USA would even allow terrorist organizations to fund raise in the USA!!! When it comes to terrorists the USA can just fuck right off.
Far more people have died in the UK from terrorists that the USA harboured and allowed to fund raise than have from any Islamist's terrorists, but don't let facts get in the way of your bigoted viewpoint.
Not really, the one time I visited the USA and turned the TV on in the hotel, there where adverts streaming across the bottom of the screen in the middle of a movie. The idea that could happen in the UK while the BBC exists is pure fantasy land.
Cool, so there is for example no "test-tube" babies in the USA then? Apparently no MRI or X-Ray CT scanners either!!! They are the ones that I happen to know of the top of my head. There are probably many many more.
Anyway must be crap to be in the US health care system then.
If you look in the right places you can get still buy versions of most stuff that will last. What I have personally been unable to do is buy a clothes horse of the same quality as my mothers. Her's is 50 years old and still going, everything I see in the shops is flimsy junk. I suspect I will end up making a copy myself.
About 20 years ago now I read a study that concluded the amount of money spent pushing paper around in the US health care system equaled the *ENTIRE* expenditure on the UK's NHS. However there was no evidence that health outcomes in the US where any better than the UK.
Now admittedly the US population is about six times bigger than the UK's but that has to be a WTF takeaway to anyone who thinks the US healthcare model is functional.
For example in the UK when turning into a side road you must give way to all existing road users, and this includes pedestrians crossing the road. Unfortunately a lot of drivers don't understand this, much in the same way as they think putting their indicator on generates a right to pull out etc. rather than simply being a notification to other road users of your intentions, and nobody is actually required to give way to you whatsoever.
Even in the last days of analogue there was no such thing as an NTSC only tuner chip. They all did PAL as well. Anyway none of the chips on that web page do ATSC and or NTSC only.
I live in Scotland, I voted No last time. However the SNP have every democratic right to call another referendum. Firstly membership of the EU was a significant issue in the first referendum with us being told that the only way to ensure continuing EU membership was to vote No. I did that, and guess what it didn't help one jot, and the consequences of a significant material constitutional change should give me the right to revisit my vote.
Secondly the SNP and the Scottish Greens campaigned in the last Scottish election reserving the right to call a second referendum *IF* Scotland was dragged out the EU against the wishes of it's people. Well guess what that is exactly what is happening and the SNP alone where just under 500 votes of getting more than 50% of the cast vote. So with the addition of the Scottish Greens they actually have a *MUCH* better democratic mandate for calling a referendum. Last time they had far less than 50% of the votes cast in the Scottish parliamentary elections (but came away with a majority of MSP's). This time they have that >50% democratic mandate.
Fact check: The number of people who died of starvation in the Irish Potato famine was under 1000. Losts of people died from other causes as the result of being malnourished but they did not starve to death.
Thanks to the tanking of our currency we are *ALREADY* poorer. In fact by my private analysis I have already lost so much money that it would take historically unprecedented wage growth in the UK for me to recover the lost money in the 20+ years I have left till retirement as a result of the referendum result. I would be surprised if that the vast majority of the population are not in the same boat too.
Now if we drop out the customs union it will be a total cluster fuck. The problem is our current customs IT system was designed for ~50 million items, and is handling ~90 million items. The replacement system designed for ~100 million items is years behind schedule and over budget (government IT project what do you expect...). If we leave the customs union we will need a system to handle 350-400 million items. It's a argh crap nothing we do can fix that in time.
Hum, lets just remind everyone that 40% of our food is imported. Hey it gets even worse much of our food that is not imported is packaged in materials that are imported. Nothing worse than an angry *hungry* mob, at which point the leaders of the leave campaign will probably need to claim political asylum abroad or be lynched if still in the UK assuming Scotland and Northern Ireland have not decided that such a prospect is not worth it and there is no UK left.
This all started when the British government pulled adverts from YouTube because they where appearing alongside videos that where in support of proscribed groups (that has a very specific meaning within UK law Google it if you don't understand). The British government can in no way be described as lefty anything. Then British companies pulled adverts for the same reasons.
Actually a sane legal system (still not the USA) does not permit you to sign your legal rights. You can sign a contract claiming that you are waving your legal rights but those clauses are null and void as far as the courts are concerned.
The difference between an e-Cat and an EM drive is that the plans for how to make an EM drive are free to anyone wanting to do so, and it appears several labs around the world annoyingly keep finding it works.
The e-Cat on the other hand is surrounded by secrecy with nobody allowed to know how the device works or what it looks like on the inside, and certainly no independent verification of it working.
That is the e-Cat is classical snake oil stuff with lots of secrecy. The EM drive however is the complete opposite.
I think the concept of asking for brand and model is that a 5GBP tablet is unbelievably cheap. The cheapest I can see on eBay for a new tablet is around 30GBP for a 7" model running KitKat, which is doggy ancient these days.
The "problem" with the Eurofighter is that it was designed as an interceptor, and when it first came into service the argument was there was no need for an interceptor anymore because the cold war was over.
Thing is that Eurofighters are now being scrambled on a regular basis (well I was more aware exactly how often till they moved them out of Leuchars because you bloody well know when they take off on scramble) to intercept Russian planes flying around the coast of the UK.
So while it looked like an unneeded plane when it when into service, it is in fact required for exactly it's design purpose, at which it is pretty decent.
True, but the next step is to put a hub in the middle integrated into the USB stick. So you see a USB hub plugged into a port with a USB mass storage device and a USB keyboard attached. We are then right back to square one. I guess the firewall could be programmed to reject hubs to prevent this, but it's all getting rather messy. The better solution is to stop using USB anything to move data about; the network is the computer remember.
This is the UK and basically if you can make the case that a certain level of language skills is required then you are entitled to discriminate on those grounds. Generally public facing roles fall into that category and the Judge has accepted Transport for London's argument that in an English speaking country it is reasonable that those offering services to the public have to be able to communicate adequately with them in the native language of the country.
If Uber's legal council told them they had a chance of winning then they need better legal council. Chances are the legal council told them they would loose but they insisted on proceeding.
I posted about this last time around. But here in the E.U. it is more or less impossible to exceed a 600 mile range while staying inside the working time directive for hours you can legally drive without taking breaks and the limit per day (worked out so we don't have people driving around tired and therefore a danger to the rest of us). Now working time directive only in theory applies to people in employment, but you have a crash having significantly exceeded those hours and it's grounds for prosecution (See Great Heck train crash as an example of how driving sleep deprived can get you into big trouble).
The basics are once you get to a range of 600-700 miles as long as it can be charged overnight the actual charge time becomes immaterial for 99.999% of journeys you will ever make. Put another way in 25 years of driving a 600 mile range would *never* have been even close to a problem.
KVM switches on USB/DVI are rather flaky is probably why. I know Dell machines went through a stage of no PS/2 only for them to come back. At least in their Optiplex line that is.
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Even in the EU with all the employment protections that we have, the CEO could be dismissed for bringing the firm into disrepute for his initial defense of the actions of his employees. To be honest that would in my view be a fair outcome, his actions in part have lead the wiping of tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of the share price of the firm.
I would expect to also see whoever was in charge of getting people to get bumped, dismissed for failure to do their job and bringing the firm into disrepute. All reports indicate that they they stopped at $800 when looking for volunteers. I am quite sure had they kept going they would have found another person to volunteer. That is unless there was a company policy that limited it to $800, in which case the person responsible for the policy needs sacking.
The captain on the plane should be prosecuted for illegally asking the passenger to leave. United had the right to deny boarding, but he was already boarded at which point the pilots authority to arbitrarily deny boarding ended, further it seems you can only deny boarding if the plane is overbooked, and they where bumping people for four United employees that almost certainly didn't have a booking.
The three security officers need prosecuting for assault, because as the passenger was boarded the pilot had no legal authority to have him removed (he was not disruptive till they tried to remove him) so they where acting without legal authority to do so. There bad for just assuming the captain had issued a legally valid order, because following orders is not a valid legal defense.
Finally the four United crew members who turned up last minute at the gate need investigating and potentially disciplining. They should have given more warning of their intentions (like turning up at the gate before the plane was boarded at a minimum) assuming they where not assigned last minute to get on that flight, at which point whoever made that last minute assignment needs investigating and potentially disciplining; why where they assigning flight crew at the last minute.
Except Plex can do recorded TV. Its a bit limited in the devices it currently supports though. Personally speaking being in the UK there are very good catchup options for almost all channels that I would care about. So unless I want to keep the program for some reason and its not on the BBC (get_iplayer does if it is not a film and even then some are on iplayer) then recording TV is not much used, but my Plex server has tvheadend on for good measure. The main thing I have recorded is "Blaze and the monster machines", which is not for me personally and I would purchased the DVD's if they existed in the UK.
That correspondent is almost certainly wrong in law. The pilot has to have a valid legal reason for asking you to leave, which in this case he did not. Yes you can be arbitrarily denied boarding, but he was already boarded and addition the bumbing was for United employees not paying customers so bumbing him from the plane was a breach of contract, and up till the point he was forced off he was not disruptive. Being a pilot does not give you god like powers.
The most obvious was I can explain it would be if the pilot had come out and said get that black bastard of my plane to a person of African descent. Still think that would be legal?
While the IRA could be defined as being Roman Catholic, the reason for there terrorism was not prima facie down to their religion, and their goals where not in any way shape or form religious in nature.
The reason behind the IRA terrorism was the blatant and overt oppression of Roman Catholics by Protestants in Northern Ireland. Their goal was/is to succeed from the United Kingdom and unite with the rest of the island of Ireland and free themselves from the really quite horrendous oppression they where under.
On the other hand Islamist terrorists are doing it all in the name of religion and their goals are religious in nature. So for example the goal of Daesh is to convert the entire world to Islam, killing those who refuse on the way.
That is why despite being based in religion nobody in their right mind ever called the IRA Christian terrorists, apart from the fact that it would need to be Roman Catholic terrorists anyway, and I am quite sure many of them never actually attended church on a regular basis.
How come the two Steve's (aka Jobs and Woz) where never arrested then? They sold devices with the express intention of breaking the law. Or does the fact they used the money to start Apple give them a free pass?
He is also ignoring the fact that various "metal"-air batteries eg. Al,Zn or Li have energy densities that are comparable to fossil fuels. So gasoline is ~13 kWh/kg and a Li air battery is ~12kWh/kg. Of course neither actually achieve this but a metal air battery should be able to deliver comparable useful power to fossil fuels on a mass for mass basis.
No in the past the USA would just refuse to extradite people to face terrorist charges to European countries. I know for certain this applied to both the UK and France, and included terrorists who where Muslim.
Heck the USA would even allow terrorist organizations to fund raise in the USA!!! When it comes to terrorists the USA can just fuck right off.
Far more people have died in the UK from terrorists that the USA harboured and allowed to fund raise than have from any Islamist's terrorists, but don't let facts get in the way of your bigoted viewpoint.
Not really, the one time I visited the USA and turned the TV on in the hotel, there where adverts streaming across the bottom of the screen in the middle of a movie. The idea that could happen in the UK while the BBC exists is pure fantasy land.
Cool, so there is for example no "test-tube" babies in the USA then? Apparently no MRI or X-Ray CT scanners either!!! They are the ones that I happen to know of the top of my head. There are probably many many more.
Anyway must be crap to be in the US health care system then.
On the other hand my cleaning bucket is nearly 10 years old already and I have a reasonable expectation that it will last the rest of my life
https://www.manufactum.co.uk/s...
If you look in the right places you can get still buy versions of most stuff that will last. What I have personally been unable to do is buy a clothes horse of the same quality as my mothers. Her's is 50 years old and still going, everything I see in the shops is flimsy junk. I suspect I will end up making a copy myself.
About 20 years ago now I read a study that concluded the amount of money spent pushing paper around in the US health care system equaled the *ENTIRE* expenditure on the UK's NHS. However there was no evidence that health outcomes in the US where any better than the UK.
Now admittedly the US population is about six times bigger than the UK's but that has to be a WTF takeaway to anyone who thinks the US healthcare model is functional.
For example in the UK when turning into a side road you must give way to all existing road users, and this includes pedestrians crossing the road. Unfortunately a lot of drivers don't understand this, much in the same way as they think putting their indicator on generates a right to pull out etc. rather than simply being a notification to other road users of your intentions, and nobody is actually required to give way to you whatsoever.
Five seconds on google, first hit is a worldwide tuner chips from Silicon Labs for ATSC/QAM, DVB-T2/C2/T/C, ISDB-T/C, DTMB
http://www.silabs.com/products...
Even in the last days of analogue there was no such thing as an NTSC only tuner chip. They all did PAL as well. Anyway none of the chips on that web page do ATSC and or NTSC only.
I live in Scotland, I voted No last time. However the SNP have every democratic right to call another referendum. Firstly membership of the EU was a significant issue in the first referendum with us being told that the only way to ensure continuing EU membership was to vote No. I did that, and guess what it didn't help one jot, and the consequences of a significant material constitutional change should give me the right to revisit my vote.
Secondly the SNP and the Scottish Greens campaigned in the last Scottish election reserving the right to call a second referendum *IF* Scotland was dragged out the EU against the wishes of it's people. Well guess what that is exactly what is happening and the SNP alone where just under 500 votes of getting more than 50% of the cast vote. So with the addition of the Scottish Greens they actually have a *MUCH* better democratic mandate for calling a referendum. Last time they had far less than 50% of the votes cast in the Scottish parliamentary elections (but came away with a majority of MSP's). This time they have that >50% democratic mandate.
Fact check: The number of people who died of starvation in the Irish Potato famine was under 1000. Losts of people died from other causes as the result of being malnourished but they did not starve to death.
Thanks to the tanking of our currency we are *ALREADY* poorer. In fact by my private analysis I have already lost so much money that it would take historically unprecedented wage growth in the UK for me to recover the lost money in the 20+ years I have left till retirement as a result of the referendum result. I would be surprised if that the vast majority of the population are not in the same boat too.
Now if we drop out the customs union it will be a total cluster fuck. The problem is our current customs IT system was designed for ~50 million items, and is handling ~90 million items. The replacement system designed for ~100 million items is years behind schedule and over budget (government IT project what do you expect...). If we leave the customs union we will need a system to handle 350-400 million items. It's a argh crap nothing we do can fix that in time.
Hum, lets just remind everyone that 40% of our food is imported. Hey it gets even worse much of our food that is not imported is packaged in materials that are imported. Nothing worse than an angry *hungry* mob, at which point the leaders of the leave campaign will probably need to claim political asylum abroad or be lynched if still in the UK assuming Scotland and Northern Ireland have not decided that such a prospect is not worth it and there is no UK left.
This all started when the British government pulled adverts from YouTube because they where appearing alongside videos that where in support of proscribed groups (that has a very specific meaning within UK law Google it if you don't understand). The British government can in no way be described as lefty anything. Then British companies pulled adverts for the same reasons.
Actually a sane legal system (still not the USA) does not permit you to sign your legal rights. You can sign a contract claiming that you are waving your legal rights but those clauses are null and void as far as the courts are concerned.
The difference between an e-Cat and an EM drive is that the plans for how to make an EM drive are free to anyone wanting to do so, and it appears several labs around the world annoyingly keep finding it works.
The e-Cat on the other hand is surrounded by secrecy with nobody allowed to know how the device works or what it looks like on the inside, and certainly no independent verification of it working.
That is the e-Cat is classical snake oil stuff with lots of secrecy. The EM drive however is the complete opposite.
I think the concept of asking for brand and model is that a 5GBP tablet is unbelievably cheap. The cheapest I can see on eBay for a new tablet is around 30GBP for a 7" model running KitKat, which is doggy ancient these days.
The "problem" with the Eurofighter is that it was designed as an interceptor, and when it first came into service the argument was there was no need for an interceptor anymore because the cold war was over.
Thing is that Eurofighters are now being scrambled on a regular basis (well I was more aware exactly how often till they moved them out of Leuchars because you bloody well know when they take off on scramble) to intercept Russian planes flying around the coast of the UK.
So while it looked like an unneeded plane when it when into service, it is in fact required for exactly it's design purpose, at which it is pretty decent.
True, but the next step is to put a hub in the middle integrated into the USB stick. So you see a USB hub plugged into a port with a USB mass storage device and a USB keyboard attached. We are then right back to square one. I guess the firewall could be programmed to reject hubs to prevent this, but it's all getting rather messy. The better solution is to stop using USB anything to move data about; the network is the computer remember.
This is the UK and basically if you can make the case that a certain level of language skills is required then you are entitled to discriminate on those grounds. Generally public facing roles fall into that category and the Judge has accepted Transport for London's argument that in an English speaking country it is reasonable that those offering services to the public have to be able to communicate adequately with them in the native language of the country.
If Uber's legal council told them they had a chance of winning then they need better legal council. Chances are the legal council told them they would loose but they insisted on proceeding.
I posted about this last time around. But here in the E.U. it is more or less impossible to exceed a 600 mile range while staying inside the working time directive for hours you can legally drive without taking breaks and the limit per day (worked out so we don't have people driving around tired and therefore a danger to the rest of us). Now working time directive only in theory applies to people in employment, but you have a crash having significantly exceeded those hours and it's grounds for prosecution (See Great Heck train crash as an example of how driving sleep deprived can get you into big trouble).
The basics are once you get to a range of 600-700 miles as long as it can be charged overnight the actual charge time becomes immaterial for 99.999% of journeys you will ever make. Put another way in 25 years of driving a 600 mile range would *never* have been even close to a problem.
KVM switches on USB/DVI are rather flaky is probably why. I know Dell machines went through a stage of no PS/2 only for them to come back. At least in their Optiplex line that is.