and one that should really be able to be solved by HR.
From reading between the lines it sounds as if she feels that HR was somewhere between ineffectual and complicit in all of this.
However as someone has already pointed out we have only heard one side of the story. And while I have no reason to doubt here story (I've worked in places that were bad on a similar level so I can appreciate her situation) there is no way I nor anyone else here can judge truth from fiction or pronounce judgement on her statements or actions.
Not that I didn't believe you, but I was curious to see what I could find out about that "Leaving NY" tax online. Sure I saw some stuff, but then *wham* I ran into something that will affect me eventually. It's HEROES EARNINGS ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF TAX ACT OF 2008, section 301 that says that if you emigrate FROM the US you have to pay capital gains tax on your possessions. I never even considered that I'd need financial planning in order to leave.
But it's pretty easy to imagine that if some evil person was clever and determined enough to have made it that far, they would figure out a way to evade the fucking team of bored and de-moralized TSA screeners waving a dumbass gadget over people's water bottles.
Thanks for the answer. I avoided it by keeping my drink in my bag as I boarded the plane!
However in Buenos Aires flying to the US I had water bottles in my bag confiscated from me as I boarded the plane. Apparently this is a common practice in a whole bunch of places.
Can you explain why I have seen TSA officers waiting at the gate and taking samples of peoples drinks as they board the plane and seemingly testing them on the spot?
What does this prove? That the security lines have allowed illegal stuff through, or that shops on the inside are selling tasty explosives in liquid form?
Which is precisely why I've known mainframe programmers who retired, started collecting their pension, and then started getting 5x their salary in consulting fees to keep it running for their previous employer. Because, try as they might, you just can't find someone who really grasps the entire system.
Totally unrelated anecdote, but sort of related to your mainframe programmers. I did an HMI change over job a few years ago where the system had been designed and built by one guy and was full of all sorts of non-standard ideas and gotcha's (my fav was the onscreen button that wrote straight to the PLCs I/O). He had this idea that he was going to retire and then come back and support the system on contract rates. But apparently he pissed off so many people that when he retired they were glad to see him go, regardless of the state of the HMI.
But it seems to me like everyone in this situation was an asshole.
It was in a bar, with drinking going on. I don't expect rational, well thought out reactions from bar patrons. And while assault/theft are not to be condoned, if you walk up to a bear and kick it you are going to get attacked.
Yes! Now imagine if she had been wearing a short skirt as well, then those guys wouldn't just be justified in assaulting her, they could also rape her! </sarcasm>
There is a difference:
Wearing a short skirt is something that you do to yourself
Slocum said she was bar hopping with friends when they ended up at the bar in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. She was showing one curious bar patron Google Glass when two women started shielding their faces and rolling their eyes, she said. One of the women made an obscene gesture, Slocum said. Feeling threatened, she said she told them she was going to record with Google Glass.
That’s when she said one of the women and a man “charged” her, telling her they did not want to be filmed.
She could have walked away, but instead she chose to up the ante by threatening the patrons with recording their objections to being filmed.
Slocum said the woman then ran up to her, saying “you are killing the city” and tried to grab Google Glass from her. Then the man “ripped them off my face and ran out of the bar,” Slocum said.
Now that is interesting as it may be indicative of a general anti-Google aspect in the city as much as an anti-glass thing.
However, this presupposes that you knew about the problem before trying to land.
They knew there was a foam strike, they just chose not to actually look at it and instead rely on models to assess the damage. From TFA
The foam strike was not observed live. Only after the shuttle was orbiting Earth did NASA's launch imagery review reveal that the wing had been hit. Foam strikes during launch were not uncommon events, and shuttle program managers elected not to take on-orbit images of Columbia to visually assess any potential damage. Instead, NASA's Debris Assessment Team mathematically modeled the foam strike but could not reach any definitive conclusions about the state of the shuttle's wing. The mission continued.
I'd love to know what the risk analysis of that decision looked like. And boy I would have loved to have seen what Richard Feynman would have make of it, given the new one he ripped for NASA over challenger.
How many people would stay "nice" if you found yourself choosing between staying in self-imposed jail or stepping outside and likely finding yourself in real jail?
I have no idea to Assange's personality before all this happened, but a severe case of cabin fever can drive people off the rails.
Ignoring the general stupidity of many TSA practices, and that this is an artificial market created by government inefficiency, what's so fundamentally wrong with paying more to get through faster?
Forgot to add that this system doesn't scale. If a larger number of people decide that time is money, then the skipping line will get congested and we'll all be back in the same boat again.
The true solution for congestion is to either speed processing or increase the number of processing lanes. Everything else is just a money grab
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and one that should really be able to be solved by HR.
From reading between the lines it sounds as if she feels that HR was somewhere between ineffectual and complicit in all of this.
However as someone has already pointed out we have only heard one side of the story. And while I have no reason to doubt here story (I've worked in places that were bad on a similar level so I can appreciate her situation) there is no way I nor anyone else here can judge truth from fiction or pronounce judgement on her statements or actions.
Not that I didn't believe you, but I was curious to see what I could find out about that "Leaving NY" tax online. Sure I saw some stuff, but then *wham* I ran into something that will affect me eventually. It's HEROES EARNINGS ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF TAX ACT OF 2008, section 301 that says that if you emigrate FROM the US you have to pay capital gains tax on your possessions. I never even considered that I'd need financial planning in order to leave.
How much does it cost you to get that terabytes worth of data from your local computer to Google Drive?
Do you agree with the Slashdot Beta program ?
MOD PARENT UP
This isn't a troll question. Its something valid to ask someone who once owned slashdot.
And really, do any of you think that someone with a mid range 4 digit id would stoop to trolling on slashdot?
> a 100-nanometer-thick wafer of a substance called vanadium oxide
Why not say " a 100-nanometer-thick wafer of vanadium oxide" because a substance is called vanadium oxide when it is vanadium oxide.
Because the submitter doesn't know any better and because the editors . . . well they are editors in name only
I don't see how the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy applies here.
The OP hasn't kept a constant definition of KP.
What does Scotland have to do with anything?
Because you obviously can't find a True Scotsman in England and you seem to be looking for one.
Here in the UK, drawings classify (which is not something I agree with), so I defy you to find the victim in that.
Since you're in the UK, if you travel north a bit you'll eventually cross a border where I am sure you will find a true Scotsman.
You don't have to look far for streamliningL Streamline trucks
This one is recent (and yes Fox news) Man Super streamlined Semi Truck
From 1964 .. I present GM's Bison
I know I have seen futuristic truck designs before. This was just the first one I saw on google. From 1964 I present the Ford Gas Turbine Truck
This is the reality of how to make a single man fly.
Williams WASP X-Jet
It worked, it flew, there was no military justification for it, it disappeared.
But it's pretty easy to imagine that if some evil person was clever and determined enough to have made it that far, they would figure out a way to evade the fucking team of bored and de-moralized TSA screeners waving a dumbass gadget over people's water bottles.
Thanks for the answer. I avoided it by keeping my drink in my bag as I boarded the plane!
However in Buenos Aires flying to the US I had water bottles in my bag confiscated from me as I boarded the plane. Apparently this is a common practice in a whole bunch of places.
Can you explain why I have seen TSA officers waiting at the gate and taking samples of peoples drinks as they board the plane and seemingly testing them on the spot?
What does this prove? That the security lines have allowed illegal stuff through, or that shops on the inside are selling tasty explosives in liquid form?
But practically useless as the only way you are going to travel via some of those legs is if you have your private plane.
And what sort of salesman has a private plane .. hmm .. maybe one who is trying to sell us a new computing paradigm??
And, yes, finding qualified engineers to run the plants will be very, very difficult.
And just like airlines like ex-miltary pilots, I'm sure the nuke industry would like ex-military nuke plant workers
Which is precisely why I've known mainframe programmers who retired, started collecting their pension, and then started getting 5x their salary in consulting fees to keep it running for their previous employer. Because, try as they might, you just can't find someone who really grasps the entire system.
Totally unrelated anecdote, but sort of related to your mainframe programmers. I did an HMI change over job a few years ago where the system had been designed and built by one guy and was full of all sorts of non-standard ideas and gotcha's (my fav was the onscreen button that wrote straight to the PLCs I/O). He had this idea that he was going to retire and then come back and support the system on contract rates. But apparently he pissed off so many people that when he retired they were glad to see him go, regardless of the state of the HMI.
But it seems to me like everyone in this situation was an asshole.
It was in a bar, with drinking going on. I don't expect rational, well thought out reactions from bar patrons. And while assault/theft are not to be condoned, if you walk up to a bear and kick it you are going to get attacked.
Yes! Now imagine if she had been wearing a short skirt as well, then those guys wouldn't just be justified in assaulting her, they could also rape her! </sarcasm>
There is a difference:
Wearing a short skirt is something that you do to yourself
Filming is what you do to other people
From TFA
Slocum said she was bar hopping with friends when they ended up at the bar in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. She was showing one curious bar patron Google Glass when two women started shielding their faces and rolling their eyes, she said. One of the women made an obscene gesture, Slocum said.
Feeling threatened, she said she told them she was going to record with Google Glass.
That’s when she said one of the women and a man “charged” her, telling her they did not want to be filmed.
She could have walked away, but instead she chose to up the ante by threatening the patrons with recording their objections to being filmed.
Slocum said the woman then ran up to her, saying “you are killing the city” and tried to grab Google Glass from her. Then the man “ripped them off my face and ran out of the bar,” Slocum said.
Now that is interesting as it may be indicative of a general anti-Google aspect in the city as much as an anti-glass thing.
However, this presupposes that you knew about the problem before trying to land.
They knew there was a foam strike, they just chose not to actually look at it and instead rely on models to assess the damage. From TFA
The foam strike was not observed live. Only after the shuttle was orbiting Earth did NASA's launch imagery review reveal that the wing had been hit. Foam strikes during launch were not uncommon events, and shuttle program managers elected not to take on-orbit images of Columbia to visually assess any potential damage. Instead, NASA's Debris Assessment Team mathematically modeled the foam strike but could not reach any definitive conclusions about the state of the shuttle's wing. The mission continued.
I'd love to know what the risk analysis of that decision looked like. And boy I would have loved to have seen what Richard Feynman would have make of it, given the new one he ripped for NASA over challenger.
How many people would stay "nice" if you found yourself choosing between staying in self-imposed jail or stepping outside and likely finding yourself in real jail?
I have no idea to Assange's personality before all this happened, but a severe case of cabin fever can drive people off the rails.
Ignoring the general stupidity of many TSA practices, and that this is an artificial market created by government inefficiency, what's so fundamentally wrong with paying more to get through faster?
Forgot to add that this system doesn't scale. If a larger number of people decide that time is money, then the skipping line will get congested and we'll all be back in the same boat again.
The true solution for congestion is to either speed processing or increase the number of processing lanes. Everything else is just a money grab
What company is that?
It is CLEAR. It effectively allows you to skip the part where the TSA agent looks at your id and and ticket and agrees that you are who you are.