I'm torn in this area. I have excellent credit rating and that's because I've worked to keep it clean and up to date. I am diligent about shredding anything that would show people where I've made purchase. I keep my transactions as private as possible, I tend to check my credit scores every year. But most Americans don't tend to be so diligent. But then I married someone who didn't have such great credit. He's learned from me how to fix his spending habits and now maintains some due diligence on his information. Now I'm very lucky that he hasn't been a complete dick to me financially since he asked for a divorce. He could have ruined me if he wanted to which would suck. But there is an example of where I was a person with sound credit and someone else could have ruined it. The same thing happens when someone with good credit finds themselves the victim of stolen checks or identity theft. A credit check against a person only sees the immediate picture. And that picture is 2-dimensional. Yet we live in a 3-dimensional world where millions of things can happen that cause us strife, even those that are diligent.
So for a company to deny you work, is in some cases, just wrong. You need work to earn money to keep up good credit by buying items and paying down debts which is how you get good credit. It's all a messy scam.
I feel that if you're going for a high security job that requires direct access to vast amounts of money and information, that is a little more reasonable to ask for that info to ensure you don't have gambling debts or are ripe for being blackmailed or tempted to embezzle. But other than that, it's no one else's business what your credit report says. It's too easy to judge falsely.
Marriage is da bomb with the person you love. You'll never know a high that's greater in your life, imho. But you can also have the lowest lows too. I married the man that was my equal in hundreds of ways, and I still love him even now. But communication was never really there, and I missed the signs. From the day we met we were attracted to one another, but he was showing signes of running from the moment we met. I didn't see that communciation. I wish I had. For he has run away from me, as fast as his selfish legs will take him. He didn't know how to communicate when things didn't fit in his mind. I kept things bottled up, he hid his feelings, and in the end he destroyed them, dropped a feeling bomb and ran.
Marriage is hard work, don't let anyone tell you different, you've receive a lot of good advice from lots of/.'ers, and they have provided some great wisdom. The books you've read also provided you lots to consider. But don't let all of this cloud your life with your spouse. Honesty is easy when you have good things to say, but it's not when the info is less than pleasant. Find your communication niche with your spouse. Make it work for you two, try different methods, and if you two truely are committed to each other, you will be able to work through almost anything and find an acceptable accord.
Key words to remember... Honesty, communication, trust, compassion, faithful, LOVE.
Hope you have a adventurous and wonderful life together.
They wouldn't necessarily re-test you. When someone submits to a breathalizer, they aren't uaually re-tested later unless they demand so. But then if they wanted, they could plant the very evidence they used to haul your ass in, in the first place.
If police wanted to frame someone with that device, it would easy enough to do, by the officer having a stash of coccane in their patrol car, and if they wanted to bust someone, create a solution of saliva (spit) mixed with drugs and dip the mouth piece onto the machine. It would be all too easy to do.
I busted my ass for year in college, worked babysitting and crappy ass jobs to put myself through college. I came out with a 3.5 or so. No one handed me an interview, I pounded the pavements, I called people, I went to job fairs. I found my own success. Years later, I lost the job I was at, and spent 10.5 months unemployeed. I applied for over 1000 jobs all across the USA, and in that time frame had 3 interviews, 2 of them fell through after a lot of work trying to prove myself. In the end my abilities won an employer over. I moved at my own expense and I was flat broke.
This world hands you nothing. You invest in a degree, then it is up to you to make it work for you. It's like buying a TV, if you don't turn it on, it's a waste of money. Well I can say that for this woman, the education system wasted it's time educating her when there are millions behind her who would have take that gift of education and done something positive with it.
It's a sad sad day in the world. I truely hope our justice system throws this one out and in her face?
It's a simple case of being responsible for ones actions. If you choose to do something, as a human, you weigh what you do on it's affect to others. Many people don't care or consider the consequences for their actions. Well now this person is faced with the consequences and doesn't like what will happen, thus the "Oh woe is me" arguement. I say if the courts find someone guilty, they should just get the punishment going and not have 50 million appeals. Medical conditions have become the excuse for so many court cases, that it truely does diminish the patience that humanity has for those who really do have no control of what they do due to medical conditions.
It's a slippery slope that's being opened up and it's getting more slippery every day.
Well, you certainly make a valid point about where Music sits in the importance of someone life, and I can definitely agree to your scenario, but I can tell you that as life throws a person a curve and they suddenly find themselves out of there normal routine, Music comes crashing through the wall of chaos and can provide some stable grounding. What I mean is that people like nostalgia when life gets tough, and sometimes they will go to any length to find that old song that reminds them of better days.
Independant Music retailers seem to have a great deal of customers from what I've experienced. The selections are vast and the sales persons are fairly knowledgable. I personnally would prefer to own my own CD's and then convert them to digital media as I choose too. While I appreciate the mobility of the digital media, it is so easy to see it lost. One corrupt hard drive and Bam!, years of downloaded (legal) content is gone. But owning the CD's makes it easier to recover the loss.
The scenario that I've seen is that places like Walmart, which I refuse to shop at, feel that they only want wholesome items sold in their stores. This limits music selections down to what a few people feel is appropriate. Independant music stores are non-biased for what they sell, in my opinion.
My issue, is that Music on CD's has become more expensive when it should have come down in price a little. I don't feel music should be free. I believe that artists should get a great slice of the pie for their creations. But a hard-working stiff like me, can only afford so much.
So I believe that the Music industry has really followed a poor model in getting their products out to the masses. Had the industry opened up their business model to a more expansive medium, I don't believe they would be chasing after all the lost revenue, but would have become better equipped for the next form of technology in the future.
So the more narrow the market, the more people will do whatever they can to find what they like, and while you do not see the importance of music during this phase of your life, things will one day come full circle and it will find importance in your existence once again. I just hope you'll have an easier time trying to find your musical memories than where we're headed.
But then again, this is just my opinion, take it for what it is worth./peace
It would have to be in the Valley of Spirit. I think there's still an empty building out in that desolate part of Orgimmar. It would be convenient to sneak in and out of the city for Dr. Appts. You could treat it like it was an instance. Of course, I could only imagine the therapist playing an Undead, and I can hear the ragged voice of the undead female, saying.....Helloooooa. You'd need a/couch pose so you could effectively have your character lie on the couch. Or you could have a/smoke, for those who are nervous while talking to their therapyst. Instead of nerf bats for beating out your aggression, you could just duel your therapist.
This sounds pretty good to me. Do therapists charge extra to quest with you? I know I have a couple of quest that I could use some help on. And do they charge WoW gold. Hmmm./ideas spawning.
Being a female, I certainly would have to disagree with this. There is no diamond big enough in the world that would convince me to forgive a cheating husband. But a good Diamond Saw blade will take care of that situation real quick.
My ipod was right out of the box. I almost always had it on a charger when listening to music, and almost always left it out in the open, and that is when it would really heat up.
I can't say it burned my skin, but it did get darn warm.
According to the Article, it might be the battery that is the problem within the iPODs. I am a bit curious about this, because, I have had my Hard drive iPOD get rather warm in the past. And I bought a second Hard Drive iPOD to replace the 1st when the 1st died. Did it die because the battery burned something out on the inside, and never caught fire? I always wanted to open up the old iPOD to see what it looked like from the inside and to see if I could tinker with it and get it to work again. Could this issue also be why iPOD put in their warranty, that if you open it up, you're warranty is null and void?
Has anyone read or heard whether this only affected the Hard Drive iPOD or if it affect the Solid State iPODs also?
The whole point of the disposable market is for the makers of products to keep making money. And now with a Global economy, this rings even more true. I'm not against the notion of better disposal of products, but we certainly would have way less of an issue if products were made to last alot longer.
One product that is rather irksome is the lightbulb. There are those new lightbulbs that are made to emit less heat and last have a much longer lifespan, and consumers are finding that the life span is less than a typical light bulb and now the product (the one I'm thinking of) contains a lot of Mercury in it. In this global economy, if we purchase such a light bulb from China, how would we hold the makers responsible for cleanup? They will just turn around and charge a higher price right back onto the consumer.
I choose to play games to get away from the TV Advertisements, the Web Advertisements, the Billboard Advertisements, the Radio Advertisements, the Phone (cell phone) Advertisements, and the Clothing Advertisements. The last thing I want to see is more Ad sponsored games.
Can't people just enjoy life without the marketers of this world shoving their advertisements in our faces at every turn?
If you make a good game, it should sell itself. And people who refuse to pay for anything thinking the world owes them are to me a major cause to all the advertisement. If everyone paid alittle, then most companies probably wouldn't feel the need to see external funds from Advertisers.
I am not a layer, but my guess it that it verges on illegal. Once, my mother took a business course and learned what was legal for a Hiring Manager to ask for on an application. It was very limited information and the reason was to help prevent discrimination.
The idea of EEOC is that people should be hired on their merits and abilities. Now I understand background checks for criminal activity, but at what point will someone be forgiven? If you did the Time for a crime, how long will it be before you can become an active member of society and begin to earn respect back? Isn't that what jail was ment for, to re-integrate people back into society? As for illegal activiy, if you're willing to put it on the web, knowing it's illegal, and you haven't been charged, are you still innocent? Yes. Innocent until proven guilty. It's a tough pill to swallow, but there are circumstances behind everything that people do or have done and will do.
It is a hiring manager's job to find qualified people who work well in their company. Outside of that, they should not go beyond what legal guidelines have been set in place. People mess up, plain and simple, almost everyone has at some point in their existance. Who has the right to judge you for it and for how long?
I'm not saying I'm right in my opinion, and I don't support criminal activity. But if I'm at some goofy party and share that memory with friends and I get drunk and don't do anything illegal, and someone posts stuff about it with my name, I should not be judged for that.
For the record, I avoid posting under my real identity all the time.
But it's still not wise to seemingly ignore ideas, no matter how diverse. That's why they put it out there, for people to test and provide feedback. If you don't want feedback, don't pre-release it.
....aren't they 12 miles out from shore? If the cell phone company can claim that, then all gambling ships would be able to exist by just having their ships docked.
I would fight this provision of the contract to the point that I paid no more than my regular monthly average.
If you think about it, the cell phone company is saying that if I stepped a few feet into the ocean and made a call they could charge me with international rates.
Sillier notion yet... If this also were the case, other countries would use this as a loop hole to say hay, America I'm here with guns pointed at you and you can't touch me from your soil because I'm standing in 2 feet of water from your borders and I'm in international waters.
Ok, that's way overly extreme, and just out there, but it was fun to think that extreme. I figure a few of you wouldn't mind the laugh.
.... get the car to drive around the ocean floor and not stop running? Did they use night vision? And how many sea creature have file complaints with Google over privacy issues? . . . . . Sorry, it just seemed too easy.
...was used as subject line so this post might get some readabilty. (sorry low blow)
I've skimmed through a good portion of the posts and many people have touched on some great discussion points. But I think that some of those points need to be brought together.
Many posters have said, "Let people choose to work where they are most comfortable." Many posters have noted, "Girls like people, boys like things." (paraphrasing) Many think women just aren't intersted. Some feel women don't have the mental capacity. Many have stated that women are harrassed.
You're all right and wrong.
Women do have the mental capacity for higher math and sciences. But we do tend to have that natural tendancy to interact with humanity. But girls are curious about things, but we also don't waste time. If an inventor made a toaster, and it works, we look quickly at how it functions and works to make life easier and we move on. Don't think that our brains are any less interested in the mechanical working, but we look for bigger problems and tackle those. We tend to follow the old addage of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
The medical science area there are always new issues and they build off of existing issues that have already been resolved. One poster stated that women tend to handle repeative task and men constantly seek the next big challenge. In basic human nature that is true, women will handle the repetive need to satisfy the people around them. This is not completely untrue for men, but they look at that social need differently. It's not wrong, it's just different.
I personnally got into CS because I naturally found the ability to manipulate code to my design enticing. But I learned that I was a better thinker than coder. I would over think my code and honestly I wasn't an efficient coder. But I can pseudo code well and define the logic, therefore I help tremendously in the CS field. I natually fell into the analyst role. But I have learned from experience that may male counterparts as well as the female ones who are developers, are fairly anti-social in general. Most coders, in my experience, don't like to work on teams, they don't like to discuss, they don't tend to make their working code re-usable. Most coders tend to work in single person silo's, but this appears only to be what they are working on. Lunch Hours / After hours, they can be social butterflies.
Most Women don't tend to be that way. We tend to collaborate, we share ideas, we tend to try to think through problems before we tackle them. Men may think through things, but not as many tend to open up their ideas for discussion or criticism.
As for the harrassment aspect, it does exist. I have been harrassed, and put in embarrassing situations because some male counterpart didn't give a shit what he said or did around me. While that didn't stop me from getting my degree in CS and following that career path, I can see where some women can be disuaded. But honestly, aren't women more harrassed or leared at in Nursing? How many men or woman have enjoyed the notion of a woman dressed up as a nurse coming to the rescue? Ferris's Beuller's day off..... stereo-typical definition of a bad image place on women, funny as it was.
So it appears to me to be a disinterest in the lack of social team work along with many social stigmatisms that plague our society.
I can't condone the "Just shoot him and be done with it." logic; however, this is to a blatant outright crime and these are getting to be ridiculous. I'm afraid to hear what the lawyers will use as a defensive argument.
I wish our society would become more responsible for one's actions once again. AUGH. But until we do, we either have this legal process, which sucks, or vigilantyism (which I'm not condoning).
Anything over 40 hours for Non-exempt is Over-time. Unless you've signed some agreement or waiver that says different. They are correct.
Just because it has not happened yet, does not mean they are not correct. And sure, Lawyer want to make money just like anyone else. I don't agree with their prices, but they didn't get a degree in Law to not make money, duh.
What people lose sight of is Home is home, it is NOT work. If a company give you a Blackberry, they are expecting you to be on Call, that is a different job title and demands different pay. People lost sight of that because the Blackberry is also pretty cool, and the holder can make calls out as well as receive them. They can leave the office a little early instead of stay a little later that one day. But companies and managers abuse the holders of these devices. How many times has the Blackberry gone off while you're at home. Have you (or the holder in the house) felt compelled to answer it? Probably, because suddenly the world is "OMG they would call me on the Crackberry if it wasn't important" society. When in reality it could just have easily have been put off until the morning.
If you hold a BrackBerry, I feel your job description should be expanded to define further what is expected of you because you hold one. It is my belief, that if the moment you walk through the threshhold to your home the Blackberry should be turned off for the night and should be stowed. If you feel that much of a need to check your Blackberry, you should have just stayed at work that much later to get your work done and not have brought work into your HOME.
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I'm torn in this area. I have excellent credit rating and that's because I've worked to keep it clean and up to date. I am diligent about shredding anything that would show people where I've made purchase. I keep my transactions as private as possible, I tend to check my credit scores every year. But most Americans don't tend to be so diligent. But then I married someone who didn't have such great credit. He's learned from me how to fix his spending habits and now maintains some due diligence on his information. Now I'm very lucky that he hasn't been a complete dick to me financially since he asked for a divorce. He could have ruined me if he wanted to which would suck. But there is an example of where I was a person with sound credit and someone else could have ruined it. The same thing happens when someone with good credit finds themselves the victim of stolen checks or identity theft. A credit check against a person only sees the immediate picture. And that picture is 2-dimensional. Yet we live in a 3-dimensional world where millions of things can happen that cause us strife, even those that are diligent.
So for a company to deny you work, is in some cases, just wrong. You need work to earn money to keep up good credit by buying items and paying down debts which is how you get good credit. It's all a messy scam.
I feel that if you're going for a high security job that requires direct access to vast amounts of money and information, that is a little more reasonable to ask for that info to ensure you don't have gambling debts or are ripe for being blackmailed or tempted to embezzle. But other than that, it's no one else's business what your credit report says. It's too easy to judge falsely.
So it if is so easy to hack a voter machine, why not make them all Dummy terminals?
Marriage is da bomb with the person you love. You'll never know a high that's greater in your life, imho. But you can also have the lowest lows too. I married the man that was my equal in hundreds of ways, and I still love him even now. But communication was never really there, and I missed the signs. From the day we met we were attracted to one another, but he was showing signes of running from the moment we met. I didn't see that communciation. I wish I had. For he has run away from me, as fast as his selfish legs will take him. He didn't know how to communicate when things didn't fit in his mind. I kept things bottled up, he hid his feelings, and in the end he destroyed them, dropped a feeling bomb and ran.
Marriage is hard work, don't let anyone tell you different, you've receive a lot of good advice from lots of /.'ers, and they have provided some great wisdom. The books you've read also provided you lots to consider. But don't let all of this cloud your life with your spouse. Honesty is easy when you have good things to say, but it's not when the info is less than pleasant. Find your communication niche with your spouse. Make it work for you two, try different methods, and if you two truely are committed to each other, you will be able to work through almost anything and find an acceptable accord.
Key words to remember... Honesty, communication, trust, compassion, faithful, LOVE.
Hope you have a adventurous and wonderful life together.
They wouldn't necessarily re-test you. When someone submits to a breathalizer, they aren't uaually re-tested later unless they demand so. But then if they wanted, they could plant the very evidence they used to haul your ass in, in the first place.
If police wanted to frame someone with that device, it would easy enough to do, by the officer having a stash of coccane in their patrol car, and if they wanted to bust someone, create a solution of saliva (spit) mixed with drugs and dip the mouth piece onto the machine. It would be all too easy to do.
I busted my ass for year in college, worked babysitting and crappy ass jobs to put myself through college. I came out with a 3.5 or so. No one handed me an interview, I pounded the pavements, I called people, I went to job fairs. I found my own success. Years later, I lost the job I was at, and spent 10.5 months unemployeed. I applied for over 1000 jobs all across the USA, and in that time frame had 3 interviews, 2 of them fell through after a lot of work trying to prove myself. In the end my abilities won an employer over. I moved at my own expense and I was flat broke.
This world hands you nothing. You invest in a degree, then it is up to you to make it work for you. It's like buying a TV, if you don't turn it on, it's a waste of money. Well I can say that for this woman, the education system wasted it's time educating her when there are millions behind her who would have take that gift of education and done something positive with it.
It's a sad sad day in the world. I truely hope our justice system throws this one out and in her face?
It's a simple case of being responsible for ones actions. If you choose to do something, as a human, you weigh what you do on it's affect to others. Many people don't care or consider the consequences for their actions. Well now this person is faced with the consequences and doesn't like what will happen, thus the "Oh woe is me" arguement. I say if the courts find someone guilty, they should just get the punishment going and not have 50 million appeals. Medical conditions have become the excuse for so many court cases, that it truely does diminish the patience that humanity has for those who really do have no control of what they do due to medical conditions.
It's a slippery slope that's being opened up and it's getting more slippery every day.
Well, you certainly make a valid point about where Music sits in the importance of someone life, and I can definitely agree to your scenario, but I can tell you that as life throws a person a curve and they suddenly find themselves out of there normal routine, Music comes crashing through the wall of chaos and can provide some stable grounding. What I mean is that people like nostalgia when life gets tough, and sometimes they will go to any length to find that old song that reminds them of better days.
Independant Music retailers seem to have a great deal of customers from what I've experienced. The selections are vast and the sales persons are fairly knowledgable. I personnally would prefer to own my own CD's and then convert them to digital media as I choose too. While I appreciate the mobility of the digital media, it is so easy to see it lost. One corrupt hard drive and Bam!, years of downloaded (legal) content is gone. But owning the CD's makes it easier to recover the loss.
The scenario that I've seen is that places like Walmart, which I refuse to shop at, feel that they only want wholesome items sold in their stores. This limits music selections down to what a few people feel is appropriate. Independant music stores are non-biased for what they sell, in my opinion.
My issue, is that Music on CD's has become more expensive when it should have come down in price a little. I don't feel music should be free. I believe that artists should get a great slice of the pie for their creations. But a hard-working stiff like me, can only afford so much.
So I believe that the Music industry has really followed a poor model in getting their products out to the masses. Had the industry opened up their business model to a more expansive medium, I don't believe they would be chasing after all the lost revenue, but would have become better equipped for the next form of technology in the future.
So the more narrow the market, the more people will do whatever they can to find what they like, and while you do not see the importance of music during this phase of your life, things will one day come full circle and it will find importance in your existence once again. I just hope you'll have an easier time trying to find your musical memories than where we're headed.
But then again, this is just my opinion, take it for what it is worth. /peace
It would have to be in the Valley of Spirit. I think there's still an empty building out in that desolate part of Orgimmar. It would be convenient to sneak in and out of the city for Dr. Appts. You could treat it like it was an instance. Of course, I could only imagine the therapist playing an Undead, and I can hear the ragged voice of the undead female, saying.....Helloooooa. You'd need a /couch pose so you could effectively have your character lie on the couch. Or you could have a /smoke, for those who are nervous while talking to their therapyst. Instead of nerf bats for beating out your aggression, you could just duel your therapist.
This sounds pretty good to me. Do therapists charge extra to quest with you? I know I have a couple of quest that I could use some help on. And do they charge WoW gold. Hmmm. /ideas spawning.
Aww, that's just wrong. It was off-color, just a very bad color. ;P
Being a female, I certainly would have to disagree with this. There is no diamond big enough in the world that would convince me to forgive a cheating husband. But a good Diamond Saw blade will take care of that situation real quick.
I'm sure there's a darn funny off color joke in there about diamonds being a womans best friend... but I'm going to not open up any wounds.
My ipod was right out of the box. I almost always had it on a charger when listening to music, and almost always left it out in the open, and that is when it would really heat up.
I can't say it burned my skin, but it did get darn warm.
According to the Article, it might be the battery that is the problem within the iPODs. I am a bit curious about this, because, I have had my Hard drive iPOD get rather warm in the past. And I bought a second Hard Drive iPOD to replace the 1st when the 1st died. Did it die because the battery burned something out on the inside, and never caught fire? I always wanted to open up the old iPOD to see what it looked like from the inside and to see if I could tinker with it and get it to work again. Could this issue also be why iPOD put in their warranty, that if you open it up, you're warranty is null and void?
Has anyone read or heard whether this only affected the Hard Drive iPOD or if it affect the Solid State iPODs also?
The whole point of the disposable market is for the makers of products to keep making money. And now with a Global economy, this rings even more true. I'm not against the notion of better disposal of products, but we certainly would have way less of an issue if products were made to last alot longer.
One product that is rather irksome is the lightbulb. There are those new lightbulbs that are made to emit less heat and last have a much longer lifespan, and consumers are finding that the life span is less than a typical light bulb and now the product (the one I'm thinking of) contains a lot of Mercury in it. In this global economy, if we purchase such a light bulb from China, how would we hold the makers responsible for cleanup? They will just turn around and charge a higher price right back onto the consumer.
It's an ugly cycle.
I could swear I saw it on TV as an Ad yesterday. It looked cool.
I choose to play games to get away from the TV Advertisements, the Web Advertisements, the Billboard Advertisements, the Radio Advertisements, the Phone (cell phone) Advertisements, and the Clothing Advertisements. The last thing I want to see is more Ad sponsored games.
Can't people just enjoy life without the marketers of this world shoving their advertisements in our faces at every turn?
If you make a good game, it should sell itself. And people who refuse to pay for anything thinking the world owes them are to me a major cause to all the advertisement. If everyone paid alittle, then most companies probably wouldn't feel the need to see external funds from Advertisers.
Viscious circle.
I am not a layer, but my guess it that it verges on illegal. Once, my mother took a business course and learned what was legal for a Hiring Manager to ask for on an application. It was very limited information and the reason was to help prevent discrimination.
The idea of EEOC is that people should be hired on their merits and abilities. Now I understand background checks for criminal activity, but at what point will someone be forgiven? If you did the Time for a crime, how long will it be before you can become an active member of society and begin to earn respect back? Isn't that what jail was ment for, to re-integrate people back into society? As for illegal activiy, if you're willing to put it on the web, knowing it's illegal, and you haven't been charged, are you still innocent? Yes. Innocent until proven guilty. It's a tough pill to swallow, but there are circumstances behind everything that people do or have done and will do.
It is a hiring manager's job to find qualified people who work well in their company. Outside of that, they should not go beyond what legal guidelines have been set in place. People mess up, plain and simple, almost everyone has at some point in their existance. Who has the right to judge you for it and for how long?
I'm not saying I'm right in my opinion, and I don't support criminal activity. But if I'm at some goofy party and share that memory with friends and I get drunk and don't do anything illegal, and someone posts stuff about it with my name, I should not be judged for that.
For the record, I avoid posting under my real identity all the time.
But it's still not wise to seemingly ignore ideas, no matter how diverse. That's why they put it out there, for people to test and provide feedback. If you don't want feedback, don't pre-release it.
....aren't they 12 miles out from shore? If the cell phone company can claim that, then all gambling ships would be able to exist by just having their ships docked.
I would fight this provision of the contract to the point that I paid no more than my regular monthly average.
If you think about it, the cell phone company is saying that if I stepped a few feet into the ocean and made a call they could charge me with international rates.
Sillier notion yet...
If this also were the case, other countries would use this as a loop hole to say hay, America I'm here with guns pointed at you and you can't touch me from your soil because I'm standing in 2 feet of water from your borders and I'm in international waters.
Ok, that's way overly extreme, and just out there, but it was fun to think that extreme. I figure a few of you wouldn't mind the laugh.
I am realsilly, after all.
.... get the car to drive around the ocean floor and not stop running? Did they use night vision? And how many sea creature have file complaints with Google over privacy issues?
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Sorry, it just seemed too easy.
Personnally I'm looking forward to seeing it.
...was used as subject line so this post might get some readabilty. (sorry low blow)
I've skimmed through a good portion of the posts and many people have touched on some great discussion points. But I think that some of those points need to be brought together.
Many posters have said, "Let people choose to work where they are most comfortable."
Many posters have noted, "Girls like people, boys like things." (paraphrasing)
Many think women just aren't intersted.
Some feel women don't have the mental capacity.
Many have stated that women are harrassed.
You're all right and wrong.
Women do have the mental capacity for higher math and sciences. But we do tend to have that natural tendancy to interact with humanity. But girls are curious about things, but we also don't waste time. If an inventor made a toaster, and it works, we look quickly at how it functions and works to make life easier and we move on. Don't think that our brains are any less interested in the mechanical working, but we look for bigger problems and tackle those. We tend to follow the old addage of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
The medical science area there are always new issues and they build off of existing issues that have already been resolved. One poster stated that women tend to handle repeative task and men constantly seek the next big challenge. In basic human nature that is true, women will handle the repetive need to satisfy the people around them. This is not completely untrue for men, but they look at that social need differently. It's not wrong, it's just different.
I personnally got into CS because I naturally found the ability to manipulate code to my design enticing. But I learned that I was a better thinker than coder. I would over think my code and honestly I wasn't an efficient coder. But I can pseudo code well and define the logic, therefore I help tremendously in the CS field. I natually fell into the analyst role. But I have learned from experience that may male counterparts as well as the female ones who are developers, are fairly anti-social in general. Most coders, in my experience, don't like to work on teams, they don't like to discuss, they don't tend to make their working code re-usable. Most coders tend to work in single person silo's, but this appears only to be what they are working on. Lunch Hours / After hours, they can be social butterflies.
Most Women don't tend to be that way. We tend to collaborate, we share ideas, we tend to try to think through problems before we tackle them. Men may think through things, but not as many tend to open up their ideas for discussion or criticism.
As for the harrassment aspect, it does exist. I have been harrassed, and put in embarrassing situations because some male counterpart didn't give a shit what he said or did around me. While that didn't stop me from getting my degree in CS and following that career path, I can see where some women can be disuaded. But honestly, aren't women more harrassed or leared at in Nursing? How many men or woman have enjoyed the notion of a woman dressed up as a nurse coming to the rescue? Ferris's Beuller's day off..... stereo-typical definition of a bad image place on women, funny as it was.
So it appears to me to be a disinterest in the lack of social team work along with many social stigmatisms that plague our society.
Food for thought.
I can't condone the "Just shoot him and be done with it." logic; however, this is to a blatant outright crime and these are getting to be ridiculous. I'm afraid to hear what the lawyers will use as a defensive argument.
I wish our society would become more responsible for one's actions once again. AUGH. But until we do, we either have this legal process, which sucks, or vigilantyism (which I'm not condoning).
Sorry about my poor grammer, I was rushing to type my post.
Anything over 40 hours for Non-exempt is Over-time. Unless you've signed some agreement or waiver that says different. They are correct.
Just because it has not happened yet, does not mean they are not correct. And sure, Lawyer want to make money just like anyone else. I don't agree with their prices, but they didn't get a degree in Law to not make money, duh.
What people lose sight of is Home is home, it is NOT work. If a company give you a Blackberry, they are expecting you to be on Call, that is a different job title and demands different pay. People lost sight of that because the Blackberry is also pretty cool, and the holder can make calls out as well as receive them. They can leave the office a little early instead of stay a little later that one day. But companies and managers abuse the holders of these devices. How many times has the Blackberry gone off while you're at home. Have you (or the holder in the house) felt compelled to answer it? Probably, because suddenly the world is "OMG they would call me on the Crackberry if it wasn't important" society. When in reality it could just have easily have been put off until the morning.
If you hold a BrackBerry, I feel your job description should be expanded to define further what is expected of you because you hold one. It is my belief, that if the moment you walk through the threshhold to your home the Blackberry should be turned off for the night and should be stowed. If you feel that much of a need to check your Blackberry, you should have just stayed at work that much later to get your work done and not have brought work into your HOME.