The point of the change in policy was to make everyone think they were working for a great company while at the same time giving the employees less time off. Sure there are employees that end up coming out ahead, but most employees feel guilty about asking for time off when they aren't pulling from a fixed pool of leave.
I'm not sure whether you have kids, but no company could ever make me feel guilty about taking the maximum time available for the birth of a new child. If they tried to make me feel guilty, I'd simply find somewhere else to work. My current employer doesn't have anything like this policy, but the people in my department were very generous to us when both of our children were born.
Also missing is the motivation - possible oil and gas reserves under the South China Sea. China wants to strengthen their territorial claim and then say the entire area is theirs.
The airstrip seems to suggest a more direct military goal.
I've heard similar. Likewise there won't be much to be made on EV charge points. But they will be more likely to sell food whilst an EV is being charged.
Go the other way: Denny's should invest immediately in charging tech and work out their marketing strategy: Free quick charge with the purchase of two entrees.
I was surprised to learn that MANY people actually use the Caps Lock key as shift.
It's not just PEBKACs that do that. One of the world's fastest typists does this. http://seanwrona.com/typing.ph... (look under the "Typing Tips" section).
because pardoning him would set a dangerous precedent, essentially declaring open season on any and all State secrets that anyone with access thought should be revealed
If one hundred million US citizens sign a petition that they believe the disclosures deserve the light of day, then revealing them isn't a dangerous precedent, it is progress.
It's nigh impossible to reign in government over reach from the bottom up.
Even though Clinton is wrong on this, you're fooling yourself if you think you can always get past your own immediate self interest to see how changes to the big picture come back around to affect you. I hate getting my car smogged. It's expensive, it's a pain, and it feels like my car couldn't possibly be doing that much damage. But I would hate going to back to the way it was when I was a kid, and my lungs would hurt on Summer afternoons from all the crap in the air.
Yeah but it is American, so there's hope for it given that one of they key reasons Concorde failed is American jealousy at the successful design and development of it meant they made life commercially impossible for it to exist.
The only important reason it failed is because it was incredibly impractical and expensive to operate. Yes it was a marvel and all that, but you couldn't make money off it.
They did make her life miserable up to the point she gets that money, if she ever does.
Miserable? Seriously? I get far more than 153 unsolicited calls a year so I just don't pick up long distance area codes I don't recognize. Getting a call once every two days doesn't make a normal person miserable.
"Pwnies" are probably PWN Plugs from Pwnie Express. The original models were basically Sheeva Plugs, a raspberry-pi esque computer inside a wall wart form factor.
It would be interesting to see if these guys received products or training from Pwnie Express, a well known infosec vendor.
Nobody cared about the Zune because there was nothing special or compelling about it. It was a me-too product introduced several years too late to matter. It's most compelling selling point (and compelling is a stretch) was that it wasn't made by Apple
I'm going to say it: I loved the brown version. It was beautiful. Whether it was ahead of its time, or behind its time, or just too niche, I don't know. I just know it looked fantastic in person and literally like crap in pictures. As for other compelling reasons: the Zune had better sound quality, better software, and a better screen than the iPod.
Did you really mean to post this in response to my terrible Armageddon pun?
The OP's article doesn't mention that the original target of discovering 90 percent of NEOs with a size of 1 km or greater (extinction-size) has already been achieved. The bar has been lowered to 140 m, but those aren't an extinction threat.
Given that these sorts of events have consequences on a planetary scale and that little things like nation-states mean absolutely nothing if we lose the species, why the hell isn't this an international effort? Why does the USA have to do all the grunt-work? (I'm not a yank BTW). This really is something I could get behind the UN for actually doing something useful lately. (The UN has done SFA of use since eradicating smallpox).
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ask some of the early adopters of google glass.
To clarify, those will be the only adopters of Glass. If it ever resurfaces, it will likely be substantially different.
The law has nothing to do with what should be. For that you have ethics/religion/philosophy.
The point of the change in policy was to make everyone think they were working for a great company while at the same time giving the employees less time off. Sure there are employees that end up coming out ahead, but most employees feel guilty about asking for time off when they aren't pulling from a fixed pool of leave.
I'm not sure whether you have kids, but no company could ever make me feel guilty about taking the maximum time available for the birth of a new child. If they tried to make me feel guilty, I'd simply find somewhere else to work. My current employer doesn't have anything like this policy, but the people in my department were very generous to us when both of our children were born.
Also missing is the motivation - possible oil and gas reserves under the South China Sea. China wants to strengthen their territorial claim and then say the entire area is theirs.
The airstrip seems to suggest a more direct military goal.
Why waste paper getting a receipt? Your credit card company has a record of the transaction.
The most common reason? Employer reimbursement or tax write-offs.
I've heard similar. Likewise there won't be much to be made on EV charge points. But they will be more likely to sell food whilst an EV is being charged.
Go the other way: Denny's should invest immediately in charging tech and work out their marketing strategy: Free quick charge with the purchase of two entrees.
I was surprised to learn that MANY people actually use the Caps Lock key as shift.
It's not just PEBKACs that do that. One of the world's fastest typists does this. http://seanwrona.com/typing.ph... (look under the "Typing Tips" section).
I did not expect to come here and fine someone complaining about how great Windows 8 is.
because pardoning him would set a dangerous precedent, essentially declaring open season on any and all State secrets that anyone with access thought should be revealed
If one hundred million US citizens sign a petition that they believe the disclosures deserve the light of day, then revealing them isn't a dangerous precedent, it is progress.
It's nigh impossible to reign in government over reach from the bottom up.
Even though Clinton is wrong on this, you're fooling yourself if you think you can always get past your own immediate self interest to see how changes to the big picture come back around to affect you. I hate getting my car smogged. It's expensive, it's a pain, and it feels like my car couldn't possibly be doing that much damage. But I would hate going to back to the way it was when I was a kid, and my lungs would hurt on Summer afternoons from all the crap in the air.
According to this article it made money every time it flew, about 30 millions British Pounds a year, but it never recouped the development costs.
That's not what it means to make money.
It's like building a new space shuttle
You are apt to compare the Concorde and STS, but probably not for the reasons you intended.
Yeah but it is American, so there's hope for it given that one of they key reasons Concorde failed is American jealousy at the successful design and development of it meant they made life commercially impossible for it to exist.
The only important reason it failed is because it was incredibly impractical and expensive to operate. Yes it was a marvel and all that, but you couldn't make money off it.
You have it exactly wrong. I don't get angry because I ignore the calls.
How the hell do some of you people get so many of these spam calls? I've had my cell # for a good 10 years and I'm shocked to get 2 spam calls a year.
I don't know but I'm guessing it only takes being on one list and then you're on all of them.
They did make her life miserable up to the point she gets that money, if she ever does.
Miserable? Seriously? I get far more than 153 unsolicited calls a year so I just don't pick up long distance area codes I don't recognize. Getting a call once every two days doesn't make a normal person miserable.
Granted, there are plenty of guides and walkthrus on rolling your own.
"Pwnies" are probably PWN Plugs from Pwnie Express. The original models were basically Sheeva Plugs, a raspberry-pi esque computer inside a wall wart form factor.
It would be interesting to see if these guys received products or training from Pwnie Express, a well known infosec vendor.
Which parts?
They were compelling reasons to me. The market obviously judged the player a colossal failure, but I loved mine.
Nobody cared about the Zune because there was nothing special or compelling about it. It was a me-too product introduced several years too late to matter. It's most compelling selling point (and compelling is a stretch) was that it wasn't made by Apple
I'm going to say it: I loved the brown version. It was beautiful. Whether it was ahead of its time, or behind its time, or just too niche, I don't know. I just know it looked fantastic in person and literally like crap in pictures. As for other compelling reasons: the Zune had better sound quality, better software, and a better screen than the iPod.
A better title would be "Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By Industrial Machinery."
The OP's article doesn't mention that the original target of discovering 90 percent of NEOs with a size of 1 km or greater (extinction-size) has already been achieved. The bar has been lowered to 140 m, but those aren't an extinction threat.
Given that these sorts of events have consequences on a planetary scale and that little things like nation-states mean absolutely nothing if we lose the species, why the hell isn't this an international effort? Why does the USA have to do all the grunt-work? (I'm not a yank BTW). This really is something I could get behind the UN for actually doing something useful lately. (The UN has done SFA of use since eradicating smallpox).
Because we already drafted the blueprint.
You meet a lot of Puritans? The funny hats give them away, right?