They opened two in my area... that appears to be their plan: show the ads for years with no Sonic, open a drive in, and then wait while the drones turn up and actually disrupt highway traffic waiting on lines for this shit. There is an actual police presence at both Sonics near me, and I believe someone rammed a police officer for telling him he could not come in.
Even after they open one near you, be prepared to stay FAR away from it for awhile. Ours have been here more than 6 months and it's still a scene every time I've been past them.
I just spent the week on Star Island of the Isles of Shoals in NH and they had something like this donated as a test: http://green.autoblog.com/2007/09/09/1kw-bird-safe-home-wind-turbine-available/...it's really a double helix shaped thing (very odd looking) but it was turning up a storm when Hurricane Danny came through the other day. Of course, it almost looks like an actual tornado while spinning...:-P
There are PLENTY of times this matters... looking stuff up while on the phone, looking up a phone number for an e-mail... texting on and off with a friend while playing a game... you may only need one function at a time, but you might want the phone to be able to keep track. My Treo does this SOMEWHAT (maddening though is that it can't keep a web browser doing what I left it doing when anything else happens -- it loads the page all over again from scratch, which sucks if you're typing something or browsed to a certain spot)... I don't know if the iPhone can.
I've done this, and I've seen one other person on the road do it... I use it basically to draw attention to what I'm doing and, if I'm stopping, hope they figure out why.
I don't know what a MAC flight is, but I bet any trained pilot will tell you that there's almost never an excuse for aborting a takeoff at rotation (unless the plane is virtually guaranteed not to fly, for example).
Maybe I'm alone here, but this sort of shit has always pissed me off. The organization you're using this website for... it's an ISP, commercial company, and a non-profit organization? If not, why do you need all three domains (except to be incorrect on two of them)? It irritates me at work as it's a lot of pointless duplication to host three zones for every domain name, but it also means that the suffix doesn't tell you anything about the site.
If you know what the hell you were talking about, you'd realize no part of this discussion is about INK but is instead about toner, which is hazardous enough that you need to use a special vacuum to clean it up (or it gets in your lungs or something). So, yeah, I'd appreciate a move to soy.
You'd think teaching is not a hazardous occupation, and I'd sorta think that neither is nursing (I work in a hospital/medical school), but realize that a lot of kids in schools are capable of inflicting violence on teachers -- and it does happen. I'm willing to bet that there are student assaults on teachers just as there are patient assaults on nurses, and I'm also willing to bet that there is some of the same management indifference to it seen in schools as in hospitals.
Teachers and public employees also have it worse in negotiations. We're told we can't strike, but also told that there's really no recourse beyond negotiating and taking what management offers. That's really a load of shit, as it stands now... I completely supported the MTA strike -- why should they have to negotiate with one hand behind their back? So I can get to and from work easier? Please, I can suck it up for a day.
Well documented, you say? Where? And what knowledge do you have of union contracts? In every union contract that I've seen, you can absolutely terminate people for cause. It may take you a good long while, but it can certainly be done (we're not even talking more than a year here). And if that's NOT in the union contract, whose fault is that? Should the union be making an effort to make sure all of the proper firing language is in there? Sounds like a management responsibility to me -- there are two sides to this.
Incidentally, you think that Walmart is doing what they're doing because of unions? Walmart would be trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of there establishment, union or no union. The only thing that could conceivably stop them is regulation.
We lobby quite a bit too, but your description of what is gained by it is pretty misguided. In my area, it's been bills that require documentation of hospital staffing levels, require safe lift equipment so that people don't ruin their backs lifting patients, and bills to prevent workplace violence. Not sure what sort of lobbying you think can be done that will provide some sort of windfall for public employee unions, but I suspect your take on it is inaccurate at best.
Not all unions are created equal, and neither are all school district management teams.
My dad is both a union rep in a school district in the county and a school board member his home district. I always hear him complaining about his school management and the shit they pull. I don't hear him complain nearly about the union in his local district (though he's excused from decisionmaking obviously in a lot of it).
Place the blame where it really lies: incompetent middle managers who can't be bothered to fire people and instead sit around and collect a check, contributing nothing. You can certainly fire people for cause, even if they're in a union. Are you one of these feckless middle managers who just can't pick up a contract and read how it's done?
Because instead of improving all schools, you end up taking creating separate-but-equal schools. And, you end up with the stupidity of busing people all over creation rather than having folks attend a neighborhood school.
This biggest failure of most unions is not letting their members know they're actually doing anything, and not talking to their members. They may have been doing plenty but not telling you about it.
It's like anything else -- you may opt to write code over documentation. Trouble is, both are important.
My union used to bitch about this until we started involving them appropriately...
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Lots of examples to prove that war begets war... so... I have to wonder why he needs proof in the reverse...
Funny, I'm young and in relatively decent shape.
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setenv diag-switch? false
This is something I know Sun is already working on.
Don't they have a right to know how their money is spent? ;)
Ah, OK, not covered by warranty. To which repair shop shall I take my Windows XP considering it's no longer under warranty?
They opened two in my area... that appears to be their plan: show the ads for years with no Sonic, open a drive in, and then wait while the drones turn up and actually disrupt highway traffic waiting on lines for this shit. There is an actual police presence at both Sonics near me, and I believe someone rammed a police officer for telling him he could not come in.
Even after they open one near you, be prepared to stay FAR away from it for awhile. Ours have been here more than 6 months and it's still a scene every time I've been past them.
I would except the gentleman with mod points was being ironic. Whoosh.
I wish I had mod points. It's not every day I can laugh before 9:00a.
Actually, here's the real brochure: http://www.waterlinecompanies.com/Helix.pdf
I just spent the week on Star Island of the Isles of Shoals in NH and they had something like this donated as a test: http://green.autoblog.com/2007/09/09/1kw-bird-safe-home-wind-turbine-available/ ...it's really a double helix shaped thing (very odd looking) but it was turning up a storm when Hurricane Danny came through the other day. Of course, it almost looks like an actual tornado while spinning... :-P
There are PLENTY of times this matters... looking stuff up while on the phone, looking up a phone number for an e-mail... texting on and off with a friend while playing a game... you may only need one function at a time, but you might want the phone to be able to keep track. My Treo does this SOMEWHAT (maddening though is that it can't keep a web browser doing what I left it doing when anything else happens -- it loads the page all over again from scratch, which sucks if you're typing something or browsed to a certain spot)... I don't know if the iPhone can.
I've done this, and I've seen one other person on the road do it... I use it basically to draw attention to what I'm doing and, if I'm stopping, hope they figure out why.
I don't know what a MAC flight is, but I bet any trained pilot will tell you that there's almost never an excuse for aborting a takeoff at rotation (unless the plane is virtually guaranteed not to fly, for example).
Maybe I'm alone here, but this sort of shit has always pissed me off. The organization you're using this website for... it's an ISP, commercial company, and a non-profit organization? If not, why do you need all three domains (except to be incorrect on two of them)? It irritates me at work as it's a lot of pointless duplication to host three zones for every domain name, but it also means that the suffix doesn't tell you anything about the site.
I was wondering the same thing for the last two points. That didn't look like much of a mining ship.
I wonder if it's actually dangerous in that form. I guess if it is inhaled, yeah. Hmm. Toxic vs. allergen... :-\
If you know what the hell you were talking about, you'd realize no part of this discussion is about INK but is instead about toner, which is hazardous enough that you need to use a special vacuum to clean it up (or it gets in your lungs or something). So, yeah, I'd appreciate a move to soy.
You'd think teaching is not a hazardous occupation, and I'd sorta think that neither is nursing (I work in a hospital/medical school), but realize that a lot of kids in schools are capable of inflicting violence on teachers -- and it does happen. I'm willing to bet that there are student assaults on teachers just as there are patient assaults on nurses, and I'm also willing to bet that there is some of the same management indifference to it seen in schools as in hospitals.
Teachers and public employees also have it worse in negotiations. We're told we can't strike, but also told that there's really no recourse beyond negotiating and taking what management offers. That's really a load of shit, as it stands now... I completely supported the MTA strike -- why should they have to negotiate with one hand behind their back? So I can get to and from work easier? Please, I can suck it up for a day.
Well documented, you say? Where? And what knowledge do you have of union contracts? In every union contract that I've seen, you can absolutely terminate people for cause. It may take you a good long while, but it can certainly be done (we're not even talking more than a year here). And if that's NOT in the union contract, whose fault is that? Should the union be making an effort to make sure all of the proper firing language is in there? Sounds like a management responsibility to me -- there are two sides to this.
Incidentally, you think that Walmart is doing what they're doing because of unions? Walmart would be trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of there establishment, union or no union. The only thing that could conceivably stop them is regulation.
We lobby quite a bit too, but your description of what is gained by it is pretty misguided. In my area, it's been bills that require documentation of hospital staffing levels, require safe lift equipment so that people don't ruin their backs lifting patients, and bills to prevent workplace violence. Not sure what sort of lobbying you think can be done that will provide some sort of windfall for public employee unions, but I suspect your take on it is inaccurate at best.
Not all unions are created equal, and neither are all school district management teams.
My dad is both a union rep in a school district in the county and a school board member his home district. I always hear him complaining about his school management and the shit they pull. I don't hear him complain nearly about the union in his local district (though he's excused from decisionmaking obviously in a lot of it).
Place the blame where it really lies: incompetent middle managers who can't be bothered to fire people and instead sit around and collect a check, contributing nothing. You can certainly fire people for cause, even if they're in a union. Are you one of these feckless middle managers who just can't pick up a contract and read how it's done?
Because instead of improving all schools, you end up taking creating separate-but-equal schools. And, you end up with the stupidity of busing people all over creation rather than having folks attend a neighborhood school.
This biggest failure of most unions is not letting their members know they're actually doing anything, and not talking to their members. They may have been doing plenty but not telling you about it.
It's like anything else -- you may opt to write code over documentation. Trouble is, both are important.
My union used to bitch about this until we started involving them appropriately...