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  1. Re:I think it is the fear of being sacked on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 1
    It seems clear on the order of crystal that nobody has to either explain that or delegate the task.

    My guess is his inferred perception of events was that the teachers must've feared termination to agree to a such a one-sided deal.

    The truth may be even sadder, since the parent is correct about the strong teacher unions. "Better to go along with the program!" Than to be the tall poppy.

  2. Re:post link on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 1
  3. Amazing and dreadful, simultaneously on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If I pay a worker $23,660 (€21,170), that works out to about $455 per week.

    If I call that a salary then it is a guaranteed weekly wage, but I can work that employee 60 (or 70 or 80) hours a week with no extra pay.

    Fock me...There is no chance a system like that would be abused.

  4. Re:wow on Australia Passes Site-Blocking Legislation · · Score: 2
    This submission needs work. Reads like the author's opinion.

    Fair and balanced, that's us every time!

  5. Re:Not a bad price on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1
  6. Here's my two cents on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Before this morning, I didn't know either Lush existed (Matthew or the cosmetic company).

    Seemingly, Google the omnipotent search engine has a bit of egg on its face,

    but both Lush's will benefit largely from this story's exposure.

  7. Re:Where are the round-abouts on "Vision Zero" Aims To Eliminate Traffic Fatalities In San Diego · · Score: 1

    We have a few, especially in New England, but we can't keep the European drivers from turning clockwise.

  8. Re:Early corporate boardroom conversation leak on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 2
    Arsenic enters your food chain legally through fruit and rice foodstuffs, and has an acceptable legal level in the US and Europe.

    IIRC, gunpowder is a 3>2>1 mixture of sulphur, saltpeter, and charcoal. Sulphur dioxide is a food preservative, probably used in the raisins and other preserved fruit in yuor breakfast cereal... within legally recognized tolerances.

    So no. No jail for the GM GMs.

  9. Re:Early corporate boardroom conversation leak on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    Just to be clear, arsenic would be considered a natural flavoring.

  10. The Swift Army: an important demographic for Apple on Apple To Pay Musicians For Free Streams, After All · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Never underestimate the marketing power of 20 million tweenage girls.

  11. Re:Love the idea on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    If I were a poacher, and the premium for "real" horn was sufficient for me to keep poaching, I'd start delivering the head with the horn. Not sure we'll see printed heads in my lifetime.

    Oh, you never know!

  12. Re:Love the idea on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 2

    ...those buying these products usually have their own reliable sources to ensure that they are get what they pay for.

    Those buying the products in bulk don't really care if they are genuine, they only care if the next customer in the supply chain will buy it. The end users, who are dumb enough to believe that ground up horn is going to cure their erectile dysfunction, don't have the means to test it. The end market is in China, where melamine is dumped into baby formula, dried weeds are sold as tea, and noodles are often preserved with formaldehyde. They just do not have the supply chain infrastructure to ensure quality or authenticity. The fake rhino horn could work well.

    Ironically, testosterone or one of DrugCo's magic cures for ED could be included in the counterfeit horn, so it works better than the real McCoy.

  13. Everybody runs on Dallas Police Falsely Credit TrapWire System For Arrests · · Score: 2

    The Trapwire info page reads like a Hollywood advertisement for the Precrime unit in Minority Report.

  14. Re:Even if it was true, terrible value for money on Dallas Police Falsely Credit TrapWire System For Arrests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if it was true... millions of dollars for ... 44 arrests?

    Wonder what the arrest rate of 20 extra pairs of feet on the street is?

    Yep, everything's bigger in Texas: the State Police and the police state.

    Even if it was true... millions of breaches into the innocent communications of private citizens for... 44 arrests.

  15. Re:Apple Should Pay - It's Advertising on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 0
    Oh yes. And in this matrix, if the big ticket musicians like Taylor Swift balk at the take-it-or-leave-it deal, there is a much better chance of everyone getting paid.

    I can't believe these words are exiting my IP:

    Good job, Taylor!

  16. Re:Representative democracy is a trade-off, too. on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    Choosing not to own a weapon, and being against their legalization, may not be the identical position.

    It isn't, but that's not really the point. "Legalisation" is such a useless term, no-one is advocating complete illegalisation of weapons, even civilised countries allow their citizens to own certain weapons. But I think most people believe some level of control needs to be implemented, More control than currently exists in the US.

    I suspect many non-owners would reconsider, for instance, if it became necessary to hunt for their meat.

    Yeah great, but what does that have to do with anything? Many people think violent crime is a lot worse than it is. So what does that tell us about the value of people's opinions? http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...

    This debate concerning a citizen's right to weaponry is as polarizing as those of political and religious topics. People on both sides of the argument (with entrenched belief sets) are often unable to process new evidence of a contradictory sort.

    Yeah great. So you've done nothing to remedy that fact except whinge about it....

    Hhhmmm. Combined grammatical use of z in "citizen", the s in "legalisation", and the g in whinge.

    I discern from these clues you are a careless, yet educated Brit with a stunted ability to appreciate any humor near the self-deprecation side of the scale.

  17. Re:This policy is ridiculous on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1
    Pretty much this.

    I had ordered something over the internet from a company I had previously turned some trade with , and this latest transaction initiated a request for some photo ID to go with the bank card. Or. You can pay with Paypal.

    I believe it's statistically safer to use Umbrella Corporations like Amazon and Paypal, than to leave too much info in too many different hands.

  18. Re:Public Square on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1
    Tienanman, Times, Red, and Trafalgar are Public Squares that come to mind, although Cleveland has the exact namesake. The Facebook has become the gathering place of the masses, whether or not we participate or condone the condition.

    As their de facto monopoly on popular opinion increases, it will become more efficient to cater to the masses through this venue unless a viable competitor is developed.

    Verifying identities is very much to the advantage of a company who sells its members personal information.

  19. Re:well, i have this same problem on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    Mark Eagle (aka: Cagle) of the ACLU empathizes with your pflight.

  20. Representative democracy is a trade-off, too. on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1
    Choosing not to own a weapon, and being against their legalization, may not be the identical position. I suspect many non-owners would reconsider, for instance, if it became necessary to hunt for their meat.

    This is not a position of advocacy for one side of the debate in particular, merely an observation for your reflection.

    This debate concerning a citizen's right to weaponry is as polarizing as those of political and religious topics. People on both sides of the argument (with entrenched belief sets) are often unable to process new evidence of a contradictory sort.

  21. Re:Inevitable escalation of a broken philosophy on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Citizens who are free to own weaponry should understand that particular freedom is also extended to other citizens around them.

    The price of that equation is that, eventually, some of those legal weapons wind up in the irresponsible hands of the extremely antisocial.

    If that is a trade-off the population can live with, then so be it. Each is free in a way of their choosing.

  22. Sequels on E3 2015: A Lot of Nostalgia For Old Games · · Score: 1

    Well, it's worked really well for Hollywood, if by really well, you mean a safe bet but nothing groundbreaking

  23. Re:Near Miss Defined on Near Misses Lead To More Consumer Drone Legislation · · Score: 2
    Perspective.

    If I'm the shooter, it was nearly a hit.

    If I'm the target, "Whew, just missed me."

  24. Re:I get both sides of the argument. on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 1

    No one wants to see a poor, single mother be unable to feed her children,

    Oh, I think you are underestimating the vastness and ubiquity of porn fetishes available on the Internet. There is for sure a Tube devoted to this somewhere on the Internet.

    Well hell, that's why I surf here... to broaden my horizons, as it were.

  25. Re:Drone regulation? on Near Misses Lead To More Consumer Drone Legislation · · Score: 1
    Indeed, sir.

    You never have to use them.

    That's way better regulation than the consumer drones will likely get from this legislation.