In the company I worked for a couple of years ago we purchased a breathalyzer because the law prevented us from firing an employee who had been drinking on the job without more evidence than witnesses.
We took the thingy around to different reunions and tried it; it would give a large reading if you had just ingested an alcoholic drink (beer was worst) but in a couple of cases it failed to show that someone was drunk when all external evidence indicated that the guy was completely drunk.
We decided to use it only as a test to determine if we should call a doctor to perform a legal examination.
(By the way, the company is the hotel business so there was plenty of liquor around.)
Thanks for posting the link to Spider Robison's Melancholy Elephants. It is a great read and something that legislators should have rammed into their brains!
For everyone who has much will be given more and will be abundantly supplied. But everyone who has little will be deprived even of what he has.Matthew 13:12
So the rich get richer and the poor, poorer; is this justice?
Not necessarily pal. The US has a backwards measurament system, not compatible with what every other nation in the world uses and it still thrives.
Success as a nation does not depends on a "good standard", it depends on creating products and services other people want or, like the case of China, forcing producers to meet your standards.
Ever try to sell a car in the US where the odometer and speedometer are in kilometers?
Ah! But what about the perfectly brilliant person who happens to suffer from dyslexia?
You're ready to dismiss a well-reasoned comment because someone can't spell properly even if he knows how to spell but his mind plays tricks on him. That's chauvinistic.
Another point, English is not the native language of many slashdotters. How many other languages do you write well enough to be understood?
Everything is fine as long as they do it to "them", the law-breaking "others".
As we should have learned in Germany 50 years ago "them" and "others" become "us" real fast if you do not watch the government closely and put a stop to their power.
I recommend that you guys read, if you haven't, Courtney Love's speech about the labels and artist's pay.
I sincerely believe that it will happen: artists will go independent or to new label companies that cater to the fans and break the business process for the major labels.
The software industry tried many years ago copy-protection and mostly it didn't work. Only some holdouts like AutoCad remained copy-protected. Now MS is trying again and I doubt they will succeed.
Artists need to be paid. Period.
But I don't think we need to make some un-talented sons-of-a-bitch rich in the process. We want the music from the artist and the artist needs our money to be able to dedicate him/herself to art. If we cut the middleman, both the fan and the artist benefit.
Thanks for the reply; I did mean without permission.
However I don't see that the credit companies are in the business of distributing my credit information, quite the reverse they gather the information so that a lender can verify my credit-worthiness.
I don't know if credit companies sell the lists to other companies. I think they do and that is improper too, in my view.
It gets tricky when the same company you have done business with in the past calls you to offer an upgrade or new product. I think you should be able to prevent them and it would certainly be in their interest to stop pestering you if you don't want to receive their calls/emails/bulk mail ads.
As a general rule, I do not purchase anything from a telemarketer and that includes spammers. As far as I'm concerned, I try to convince them such tactics are not effective.
I think the law should be sufficiently broad that no private or public enterprise may sell or otherwise benefit from distributing to third parties any information it has about you that makes you personally identifiable.
I don't have a problem with any enterprise selling compiled demographics.
So call (preferably during dinnertime) your representative!
It's not easy but if it was it there would not be any money on breaking them. For criminals, the way it works is like what they do with current credit cards: some criminal outfit with the money to buy the talent and equipment needed starts producing them in mass and the neighboorhood hudloom uses them.
Last year there was a spat of cases where waiters and other salespeople had been coerced into swiping customer's credit cards through a "special device" that reads the mag track and stores it. Then the device is handled back to low-life who in turns delivers it to someone who in turn reads the data and produces "genuine" credit cards for use by criminals.
It's not easy, but if there is money on doing it you can bet it will be done.
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If recent history is proof of anything, Darl will end being CEO of some other company, probably a larger one.
Bob Nardelli ran Home Depot into the ground, got more than $260 million dollars for walking out and now runs Chrysler
You see, now he is an experienced CEO
In the company I worked for a couple of years ago we purchased a breathalyzer because the law prevented us from firing an employee who had been drinking on the job without more evidence than witnesses.
We took the thingy around to different reunions and tried it; it would give a large reading if you had just ingested an alcoholic drink (beer was worst) but in a couple of cases it failed to show that someone was drunk when all external evidence indicated that the guy was completely drunk.
We decided to use it only as a test to determine if we should call a doctor to perform a legal examination.
(By the way, the company is the hotel business so there was plenty of liquor around.)
Lawyers never quite commit themselves, therefore this lawyer "claims" to think that...
News at 11
...robber barons were digitized! (i.e. given a digit or the, eh, finger) Turns out that the evil empire was in the other side of the Bering Sea...
Yes, we are tired of Pinky running the show!
The U.S. buys a large part of its oil from México, for example.
Don't buy the fascist rhetoric pal.
I was planning to charge only half of what Microsoft does you insensitive unprofessional clod!
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Thanks for posting the link to Spider Robison's Melancholy Elephants. It is a great read and something that legislators should have rammed into their brains!
For everyone who has much will be given more and will be abundantly supplied. But everyone who has little will be deprived even of what he has. Matthew 13:12
So the rich get richer and the poor, poorer; is this justice?
Nope. "Help" is used the way IRS auditors do it: "we're here to help you..."
Please step out of the box... Yes, please this way.
Now that you can see the whole, why do you still think that profit-making drug companies are the only way to make new drugs?
I don't recall that there were drug companies 100 years ago, where did all the advances in medicine came from?
If profit levels are reined in just like they do for public utilities why would companies stop producing new drugs?
I'm not being sarcastic, I just want you think and answer.
Read the first line and tought:
What the hell does computer temporary employees have to do with the article?
Need to get off slashdot...
You could still access Slashdot, couldnt you?
Really? Walk into a supermarket and try to find a liter of milk or a package of one kilogram of beef! You'll find gallons and pounds.
Now when other countries want to sell to the USA marketplace, they must label their products in pounds, gallons, etc. I know, I'm that business.
Cheers,
Not necessarily pal. The US has a backwards measurament system, not compatible with what every other nation in the world uses and it still thrives.
Success as a nation does not depends on a "good standard", it depends on creating products and services other people want or, like the case of China, forcing producers to meet your standards.
Ever try to sell a car in the US where the odometer and speedometer are in kilometers?
Hell No! They use open source software.
Just see "Fourth of July" they are able to interface in minutes with their computers!
A team of top hackers couldn't have done that unless it was all standards-compliant and open-sourced!
by Harry Turtledove
Striking the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 4) Upsetting the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 3) Tilting the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 2) In the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 1)
by Peter F. Hamilton
- The Reality Disfunction composed of the two "Neutronium Alchemist" books and the two "Naked God" books.
Enjoy!
Ah! But what about the perfectly brilliant person who happens to suffer from dyslexia?
You're ready to dismiss a well-reasoned comment because someone can't spell properly even if he knows how to spell but his mind plays tricks on him. That's chauvinistic.
Another point, English is not the native language of many slashdotters. How many other languages do you write well enough to be understood?
Think about it.
Everything is fine as long as they do it to "them", the law-breaking "others".
As we should have learned in Germany 50 years ago "them" and "others" become "us" real fast if you do not watch the government closely and put a stop to their power.
I recommend that you guys read, if you haven't, Courtney Love's speech about the labels and artist's pay.
I sincerely believe that it will happen: artists will go independent or to new label companies that cater to the fans and break the business process for the major labels.
The software industry tried many years ago copy-protection and mostly it didn't work. Only some holdouts like AutoCad remained copy-protected. Now MS is trying again and I doubt they will succeed.
Artists need to be paid. Period.
But I don't think we need to make some un-talented sons-of-a-bitch rich in the process. We want the music from the artist and the artist needs our money to be able to dedicate him/herself to art. If we cut the middleman, both the fan and the artist benefit.
However I don't see that the credit companies are in the business of distributing my credit information, quite the reverse they gather the information so that a lender can verify my credit-worthiness.
I don't know if credit companies sell the lists to other companies. I think they do and that is improper too, in my view.
It gets tricky when the same company you have done business with in the past calls you to offer an upgrade or new product. I think you should be able to prevent them and it would certainly be in their interest to stop pestering you if you don't want to receive their calls/emails/bulk mail ads.
As a general rule, I do not purchase anything from a telemarketer and that includes spammers. As far as I'm concerned, I try to convince them such tactics are not effective.
Cheers,
I think the law should be sufficiently broad that no private or public enterprise may sell or otherwise benefit from distributing to third parties any information it has about you that makes you personally identifiable.
I don't have a problem with any enterprise selling compiled demographics.
So call (preferably during dinnertime) your representative!
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It's not easy but if it was it there would not be any money on breaking them. For criminals, the way it works is like what they do with current credit cards: some criminal outfit with the money to buy the talent and equipment needed starts producing them in mass and the neighboorhood hudloom uses them.
Last year there was a spat of cases where waiters and other salespeople had been coerced into swiping customer's credit cards through a "special device" that reads the mag track and stores it. Then the device is handled back to low-life who in turns delivers it to someone who in turn reads the data and produces "genuine" credit cards for use by criminals.
It's not easy, but if there is money on doing it you can bet it will be done.
If you strip mine an asterioid, you are simply taking a small boulder off the asteroid belt, not destroying a world.
In a sense, you could use the hollowed-out asteroid to build a colony inside, has the asterioid been ruined?
Don't apply Earth ecological concerns to other planets because they don't apply!