Sure we could, but if you use that attitude about everything, nothing would ever get done unless it passed some bureaucrat's idea of "practical and prudent."
Yes, A/C, it is true. I worked for the state unemployment department. They sent me to school to teach me all this stuff, then laid me off. Very funny in hindsight, though I didn't think so at the time. It is, of course, vastly more complex than what I was able to post here, but what I did post is completely accurate. Naturally, I got quite a bit of unemployment out of the deal!:-)
Subsequently I went to work for the firm where I spent the vast majority of my career, and at one point was the Personnel Officer. This was a time when the unemployment rules were changing a bit so, naturally because of my background, I was tasked to figure out what we should do. We had to make a choice between becoming a reimbursable employer or one which paid 3.5% as a tax. I determined the former was better for us because we were fairly stable, and that should we find ourselves in a layoff situation, we should switch to the tax beforehand. By being reimbursable, we saved approximately 2/3rds, so it was a good deal for us. The firm still does this, though I am quite convinced they have no idea why they are or how they got there.
Later computers began to "get big," and once again, because of my prior interest and the fact I had one of the first Apple ][ computers, I wound up in IT, where I stayed 20+ years and wound up CIO. That kind of thing would never happen in today's world, but I was in the right place at the right time, so it did. When I retired we had 500 computers, 40 servers, and a 9 site WAN on fiber optic, a far cry from the single Apple ][ on my desk we started with. What a ride!!
To the other poster complaining about long hours for employees, meh? That wasn't the point of the topic. We were discussing the proper way to quit, right?
TL;DR Bottom line: If you get laid off, it's the employer's fault. If you get fired, it's up to your employer to prove you were fired for cause. If you quit, it's up to you to prove you quit for cause. Saying the right thing and making the right decision means dollars in your pocket--or not. Your choice. It's not up for argument.
Laid off means immediate access to unemployment benefits, no questions asked.
Fired/Terminated means the employer must provide cause for doing so. The onus is on them. If they just fire you "for cause" without giving a reason, then protest your unemployment, you'll probably win.
Quitting means you must provide cause for doing so. The onus is upon you. There are legitimate reasons to quit, including following a spouse out of the area, for example. But if you "just quit" and the employer challenges, you'll probably lose.
Depending on the state, employers can be "dollar for dollar" reimbursable for unemployment, i.e.: They pay the full cost. or they can pay a tax as a percentage of wages, with an "experience rating" that raises the tax if they do a lot of layoffs.
If they are in the latter category and you quit or are fired, they probably won't protest because it doesn't cost them one way or another. If they are in the former category, they have incentive to protest because they pay the full cost of your unemployment checks.
So, yeah, these little technicalities can make a big difference.
I worked for the Department of Employment security, Unemployment Compensation Division and learned the ropes, and also worked as a human resource person and learned the other side.
When I was at UW in the early seventies they had the same sort of "5 year bachelor's" for "disadvantaged" students who got a free ride. I'm sure some of them made out okay, but they had a reputation for smoking dope in class. You can lead a horse to water, but....
It's ludicrous to claim that because of Microsoft "tax breaks" the state of Washington faces cuts. Washington does not have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem. From 1999 to 2009 the state budget increased 80%. Inflation and population growth combined was 39%. I don't know anyone who can even point to an increase in services provided by the state today compared to 1999. If they had been prudent in their spending they could have accounted for inflation and population growth with half the increase they did.
How did this happen? Lots of special interests, of course, but the basic fuel was sales taxes, which people don't really notice. When people were buying new cars the money rolled in and the state spent it. When the recession hit people cut back spending and suddenly the gravy train of sales taxes slowed to a trickle.
Now the state wants to tax everything because it's "for the children." They're looking for scapegoats and Microsoft is a nice big one to blame. It already has one of the highest sales taxes and gas taxes in the nation. It's a liberal tax and spend state.
But hey. If you want to move where the welfare payments are pretty good, move to Washington, a place where "undocumented aliens" get in-state tuition and help. With policies like Washington it won't be long before this place looks like Detroit.
"they were very, very smart, but not quite in the same league as the Homo Sapiens of Cromagnon."
Apparently these guys are under the impression that Cro Magnon and Homo sapiens were different soecies. Either that or the BBC is "interpreting" the news for us again.
It isn't superficial. You KNOW within seconds if this person is a viable candidate or not. Call it intuition, picking up non-verbal queues, or whatever, but you simply do not need a year of "getting to know if we're compatible."
Show the nerds a beautiful picture and they'll totally miss the point and dissect it to death. Good thing this is not a beautiful naked woman. They'd be complaining that the angle of the elbow isn't quite right and prove it with a mathematical formula.
Even if you donate to the library, they are not obligated to add them to the collection. If a number of your books are pre-ISBN that pretty well guarantees they will not. They need contemporary books people want to read. Unless they are a university or archival library, they are not interested in keeping old stuff. They'll just booksale the stuff they don't want.
librarything.com is a pretty easy way to get your books cataloged. I use it for my collection of over 2,000 books. Calaloging is not just a matter of finding a Dewy number and sticking it on there. MARC (Machine Readable Catalog) is a very intensive and complex method of tagging everything from size to subjects. The neat thing about librarything is that once you get your books in there, with as minimal effort as possible, you can downlad a comma delimited file of the full record to import into any system you want. Cataloging is intensive and time consuming so you want someone else to do the bulk of the work. Don't underestimate the amount of work involved here.
If you REALLY want a serious library automation system there are a couple of open source systems out there: Koha.org is one and Evergreen (open-ils.org) is another. These are real and complex systems with OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog), check-in/out, etc. I wouldn't do this unless you were really hard core.
Google home library software and you will find a ton of stuff.
P.S. I worked in the library automation field for about 30 years as one of the first "systems librarians."
Voted weeks ago. There is a county web site where you can verify your ballot was received. No buttons. No electronics. No chads. It's a blue state, so a waste, but hopefully makes a difference for some of the local races.
Use a technical document in a library as an example. When changes are made in a piece of machinery those changes need to be reflected in the technical documents that show how a given piece of machinery works. So the manufacturer sends out "changes" in the form of a few pages reflecting the changes, and instructions as to which pages to replace.
The old pages are thrown away, and the new pages and the title pages now reflect that the document is now version 1.1 instead of 1.0. As this continues to happen over time a glance at the title pages shows the gradual changes in the document. It contains an entire history of all the changes and what they were.
(Parenthetically, have you ever encountered HP doc changes for something like HP-UX? Let's just say they waste a whole lot of cardboard and plastic wrap.)
In any case, use a library-like analogy, and it may get through. Good luck.
Also brings back memories. I built a house years ago and ran wires within the walls--for a Lantsastic network! This was before widespread ethernet, of course. Then WiFi showed up. I laugh at my own lack of foresight! I fooled myself.
I applaud your efforts. Just plan for MORE rack space and keep your versatility. Everything will be connected. Sounds like fun. Wish I could do it again.
The leak happened in early December, but Stratfor did not notify its subscribers until December 24th. They offered a "free" subscription to CSID indentity protection service which, when activated, notified you that Yup, your username, password, and credit card number were hacked, something you could verify for yourself on the web. So there was at least a two week lag where they knew of the breach, but did not tell anyone so as to not "compromise" the FBI investigation. They SAID they notified the cc companies immediately, but the fact is the cc companies did not notify subscriber or initiate any action. Subscribers, once they found out on December 24th, had to do this on their own.
The large majority of cards were not used in any way, but the email addresses were used to send spam to subscribers, including bogus messages that Friedman, CEO of Stratfor, had resigned. Petty stuff, that.
Lifelock, which purports to be an id protection service, finally got around to notifying its subscribers of a data breach in mid January with a generic notice and no corroborating information at all.
As of today Stratfor has not yet re-established its service, though they say it will be Real Soon Now.
CVN-78 Ford is under construction at Newport News. available in 2015, replaces Enterprise. CVN-79 Kennedy is under construction at Newport News. Available in 2018, replaces Nimitz CVN-80 Unnamed, planned, Available 2024, replaces Eisenhower.
Confirmed. The Nimitz is now in home port Everett, Washington after a week or so of sea trials. It may very well be scheduled to relieve the Lincoln eventually, but they haven't left yet. Also, they just got to Everett. They have been at PSNS Bremerton for the last 15 months undergoing maintenance.
Both the Vinson and the Lincoln just got there in January. It won't take the Enterprise that long to get there, nor the Nimitz (I thought it was on sea trials) so that poses an interesting question. Most deployments are 7 months. By the time these two other carriers get there the two there will have been deployed for four months. So either they are on short deployments or we will have 4 carriers there at once.
CVN-65 Enterprise is in home port at Norfolk, about to be deployed to the Mideast CVN-68 Nimitz is in the Pacific for trials, CVN-69 Eisenhower is in home port Norfolk. CVN-70 Vinson is in the Arabian Sea 5th Fleet AOR, arrived 1/17/12. CVN-71 Roosevelt is at Newport News for RCOH & non-deployable, Avail: late 2012. CVN-72 Lincoln is in the Arabian Sea, 5th Fleet AOR, arrived 1/12. CVN-73 Washington is in home port Yokosuka, Japan. CVN-74 Stennis is now in homeport, Bremerton (arrived 3/2/12) CVN-75 Truman is home at Norfolk for DPIA & non-deployable. Avail summer 2012. CVN-76 Reagan is in home port at Everett, WA (arrived 3/5/12) CVN-77 Bush is in home port at Norfolk.
Umm, even the newest carrier in the fleet is "steam driven." The only difference is how they make the steam. Obviously, they never let you in the engine room.
No, that's the Fail Cannon. What he meant was "Lost Cannon"
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That's abiout what we have here. One guy, Fisher, has picked up the fact that another guy Drezner, doesn't have a high opinion of Stratfor,, though he has a high opinion of himself and constantly quotes himself in his own articles in Foreign Policy. Based on this one guy's opinion, Drezner, Fisher concludes that EVERYONE thinks Stratfor is "a joke," which is complete hyperbole. And now 100 slashdot posters, the majority of whom have no idea what Stratfor really does and have never been on their web site, get in line to repeat the same thing.
Certainly Stratfor is not as smart as Stratfor thinks Stratfor is. Their analyses are somewhat uneven. Their "Above the Tearline" segments, for example, are a poster child for simplistic thinking. On the other hand, their analysis of the US Navy and its deployments is as close to perfect as you can realistically get--FAR better than something like Debkafile, for example, that routinley invents destroyer fleets plying the waters of the Indian Ocean. They have a lot of short "quickie" articles you could probably get for yourself on the Web, but their in-depth articles are well written, comprehensive, and insightful.
They do have people on the ground all over the world. You can call them journalists instead of analysts if you want, but their coverage is far more insightful than a pool reporter for Fox or CNN. At least these guys have studied their subjects rather than spent their time blow drying their hair.
If you quote Stratfor there is always someone to jump up and down and proclaim them and you worthless, but if you neglect to mention Stratfor is your source, suddenly what you say is considered pure genius.
And they are hardly ruined. Yeah, the script kiddies walked all over them this time. They may have gotten 5 million emails (Really?) but this is no Climategate or Private Manning. And Stratfor will emerge stronger for it.
1. Stratfor sells subscriptions. Buy one or don't. That's not "stealing."
2. Stratfor does Not "allow" the government to do anything and has nothing whatsoever to do with the government obtaining data from google/facebook/amazon.
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Sure we could, but if you use that attitude about everything, nothing would ever get done unless it passed some bureaucrat's idea of "practical and prudent."
Besides, that's just a fucking boring attitude.
Um: "For its creation." Don't blame me; I'm just living up to my sig.
Yes, A/C, it is true. I worked for the state unemployment department. They sent me to school to teach me all this stuff, then laid me off. Very funny in hindsight, though I didn't think so at the time. It is, of course, vastly more complex than what I was able to post here, but what I did post is completely accurate. Naturally, I got quite a bit of unemployment out of the deal! :-)
Subsequently I went to work for the firm where I spent the vast majority of my career, and at one point was the Personnel Officer. This was a time when the unemployment rules were changing a bit so, naturally because of my background, I was tasked to figure out what we should do. We had to make a choice between becoming a reimbursable employer or one which paid 3.5% as a tax. I determined the former was better for us because we were fairly stable, and that should we find ourselves in a layoff situation, we should switch to the tax beforehand. By being reimbursable, we saved approximately 2/3rds, so it was a good deal for us. The firm still does this, though I am quite convinced they have no idea why they are or how they got there.
Later computers began to "get big," and once again, because of my prior interest and the fact I had one of the first Apple ][ computers, I wound up in IT, where I stayed 20+ years and wound up CIO. That kind of thing would never happen in today's world, but I was in the right place at the right time, so it did. When I retired we had 500 computers, 40 servers, and a 9 site WAN on fiber optic, a far cry from the single Apple ][ on my desk we started with. What a ride!!
To the other poster complaining about long hours for employees, meh? That wasn't the point of the topic. We were discussing the proper way to quit, right?
TL;DR Bottom line: If you get laid off, it's the employer's fault. If you get fired, it's up to your employer to prove you were fired for cause. If you quit, it's up to you to prove you quit for cause. Saying the right thing and making the right decision means dollars in your pocket--or not. Your choice. It's not up for argument.
Laid off means immediate access to unemployment benefits, no questions asked.
Fired/Terminated means the employer must provide cause for doing so. The onus is on them. If they just fire you "for cause" without giving a reason, then protest your unemployment, you'll probably win.
Quitting means you must provide cause for doing so. The onus is upon you. There are legitimate reasons to quit, including following a spouse out of the area, for example. But if you "just quit" and the employer challenges, you'll probably lose.
Depending on the state, employers can be "dollar for dollar" reimbursable for unemployment, i.e.: They pay the full cost. or they can pay a tax as a percentage of wages, with an "experience rating" that raises the tax if they do a lot of layoffs.
If they are in the latter category and you quit or are fired, they probably won't protest because it doesn't cost them one way or another. If they are in the former category, they have incentive to protest because they pay the full cost of your unemployment checks.
So, yeah, these little technicalities can make a big difference.
I worked for the Department of Employment security, Unemployment Compensation Division and learned the ropes, and also worked as a human resource person and learned the other side.
When I was at UW in the early seventies they had the same sort of "5 year bachelor's" for "disadvantaged" students who got a free ride. I'm sure some of them made out okay, but they had a reputation for smoking dope in class. You can lead a horse to water, but....
Typical left wing response. It is a FACT that spending increased twice as fast as inflation and population growth. You cannot explain that away.
It's ludicrous to claim that because of Microsoft "tax breaks" the state of Washington faces cuts. Washington does not have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem. From 1999 to 2009 the state budget increased 80%. Inflation and population growth combined was 39%. I don't know anyone who can even point to an increase in services provided by the state today compared to 1999. If they had been prudent in their spending they could have accounted for inflation and population growth with half the increase they did.
How did this happen? Lots of special interests, of course, but the basic fuel was sales taxes, which people don't really notice. When people were buying new cars the money rolled in and the state spent it. When the recession hit people cut back spending and suddenly the gravy train of sales taxes slowed to a trickle.
Now the state wants to tax everything because it's "for the children." They're looking for scapegoats and Microsoft is a nice big one to blame. It already has one of the highest sales taxes and gas taxes in the nation. It's a liberal tax and spend state.
But hey. If you want to move where the welfare payments are pretty good, move to Washington, a place where "undocumented aliens" get in-state tuition and help. With policies like Washington it won't be long before this place looks like Detroit.
"they were very, very smart, but not quite in the same league as the Homo Sapiens of Cromagnon."
Apparently these guys are under the impression that Cro Magnon and Homo sapiens were different soecies. Either that or the BBC is "interpreting" the news for us again.
But it's OK to say Japanese cars are well made.
It isn't superficial. You KNOW within seconds if this person is a viable candidate or not. Call it intuition, picking up non-verbal queues, or whatever, but you simply do not need a year of "getting to know if we're compatible."
Same with employee interviews.
Show the nerds a beautiful picture and they'll totally miss the point and dissect it to death. Good thing this is not a beautiful naked woman. They'd be complaining that the angle of the elbow isn't quite right and prove it with a mathematical formula.
Even if you donate to the library, they are not obligated to add them to the collection. If a number of your books are pre-ISBN that pretty well guarantees they will not. They need contemporary books people want to read. Unless they are a university or archival library, they are not interested in keeping old stuff. They'll just booksale the stuff they don't want.
librarything.com is a pretty easy way to get your books cataloged. I use it for my collection of over 2,000 books. Calaloging is not just a matter of finding a Dewy number and sticking it on there. MARC (Machine Readable Catalog) is a very intensive and complex method of tagging everything from size to subjects. The neat thing about librarything is that once you get your books in there, with as minimal effort as possible, you can downlad a comma delimited file of the full record to import into any system you want. Cataloging is intensive and time consuming so you want someone else to do the bulk of the work. Don't underestimate the amount of work involved here.
If you REALLY want a serious library automation system there are a couple of open source systems out there: Koha.org is one and Evergreen (open-ils.org) is another. These are real and complex systems with OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog), check-in/out, etc. I wouldn't do this unless you were really hard core.
Google home library software and you will find a ton of stuff.
P.S. I worked in the library automation field for about 30 years as one of the first "systems librarians."
Voted weeks ago. There is a county web site where you can verify your ballot was received. No buttons. No electronics. No chads. It's a blue state, so a waste, but hopefully makes a difference for some of the local races.
Use a technical document in a library as an example. When changes are made in a piece of machinery those changes need to be reflected in the technical documents that show how a given piece of machinery works. So the manufacturer sends out "changes" in the form of a few pages reflecting the changes, and instructions as to which pages to replace.
The old pages are thrown away, and the new pages and the title pages now reflect that the document is now version 1.1 instead of 1.0. As this continues to happen over time a glance at the title pages shows the gradual changes in the document. It contains an entire history of all the changes and what they were.
(Parenthetically, have you ever encountered HP doc changes for something like HP-UX? Let's just say they waste a whole lot of cardboard and plastic wrap.)
In any case, use a library-like analogy, and it may get through. Good luck.
Also brings back memories. I built a house years ago and ran wires within the walls--for a Lantsastic network! This was before widespread ethernet, of course. Then WiFi showed up. I laugh at my own lack of foresight! I fooled myself.
I applaud your efforts. Just plan for MORE rack space and keep your versatility. Everything will be connected. Sounds like fun. Wish I could do it again.
The leak happened in early December, but Stratfor did not notify its subscribers until December 24th. They offered a "free" subscription to CSID indentity protection service which, when activated, notified you that Yup, your username, password, and credit card number were hacked, something you could verify for yourself on the web. So there was at least a two week lag where they knew of the breach, but did not tell anyone so as to not "compromise" the FBI investigation. They SAID they notified the cc companies immediately, but the fact is the cc companies did not notify subscriber or initiate any action. Subscribers, once they found out on December 24th, had to do this on their own.
The large majority of cards were not used in any way, but the email addresses were used to send spam to subscribers, including bogus messages that Friedman, CEO of Stratfor, had resigned. Petty stuff, that.
Lifelock, which purports to be an id protection service, finally got around to notifying its subscribers of a data breach in mid January with a generic notice and no corroborating information at all.
As of today Stratfor has not yet re-established its service, though they say it will be Real Soon Now.
CVN-78 Ford is under construction at Newport News. available in 2015, replaces Enterprise.
CVN-79 Kennedy is under construction at Newport News. Available in 2018, replaces Nimitz
CVN-80 Unnamed, planned, Available 2024, replaces Eisenhower.
Sorry. You DID say "Nimitz Class" which the Enterprise is not.
Confirmed. The Nimitz is now in home port Everett, Washington after a week or so of sea trials. It may very well be scheduled to relieve the Lincoln eventually, but they haven't left yet. Also, they just got to Everett. They have been at PSNS Bremerton for the last 15 months undergoing maintenance.
Both the Vinson and the Lincoln just got there in January. It won't take the Enterprise that long to get there, nor the Nimitz (I thought it was on sea trials) so that poses an interesting question. Most deployments are 7 months. By the time these two other carriers get there the two there will have been deployed for four months. So either they are on short deployments or we will have 4 carriers there at once.
Eleven.
CVN-65 Enterprise is in home port at Norfolk, about to be deployed to the Mideast
CVN-68 Nimitz is in the Pacific for trials,
CVN-69 Eisenhower is in home port Norfolk.
CVN-70 Vinson is in the Arabian Sea 5th Fleet AOR, arrived 1/17/12.
CVN-71 Roosevelt is at Newport News for RCOH & non-deployable, Avail: late 2012.
CVN-72 Lincoln is in the Arabian Sea, 5th Fleet AOR, arrived 1/12.
CVN-73 Washington is in home port Yokosuka, Japan.
CVN-74 Stennis is now in homeport, Bremerton (arrived 3/2/12)
CVN-75 Truman is home at Norfolk for DPIA & non-deployable. Avail summer 2012.
CVN-76 Reagan is in home port at Everett, WA (arrived 3/5/12)
CVN-77 Bush is in home port at Norfolk.
Umm, even the newest carrier in the fleet is "steam driven." The only difference is how they make the steam. Obviously, they never let you in the engine room.
No, that's the Fail Cannon. What he meant was "Lost Cannon"
That's abiout what we have here. One guy, Fisher, has picked up the fact that another guy Drezner, doesn't have a high opinion of Stratfor,, though he has a high opinion of himself and constantly quotes himself in his own articles in Foreign Policy. Based on this one guy's opinion, Drezner, Fisher concludes that EVERYONE thinks Stratfor is "a joke," which is complete hyperbole. And now 100 slashdot posters, the majority of whom have no idea what Stratfor really does and have never been on their web site, get in line to repeat the same thing.
Certainly Stratfor is not as smart as Stratfor thinks Stratfor is. Their analyses are somewhat uneven. Their "Above the Tearline" segments, for example, are a poster child for simplistic thinking. On the other hand, their analysis of the US Navy and its deployments is as close to perfect as you can realistically get--FAR better than something like Debkafile, for example, that routinley invents destroyer fleets plying the waters of the Indian Ocean. They have a lot of short "quickie" articles you could probably get for yourself on the Web, but their in-depth articles are well written, comprehensive, and insightful.
They do have people on the ground all over the world. You can call them journalists instead of analysts if you want, but their coverage is far more insightful than a pool reporter for Fox or CNN. At least these guys have studied their subjects rather than spent their time blow drying their hair.
If you quote Stratfor there is always someone to jump up and down and proclaim them and you worthless, but if you neglect to mention Stratfor is your source, suddenly what you say is considered pure genius.
And they are hardly ruined. Yeah, the script kiddies walked all over them this time. They may have gotten 5 million emails (Really?) but this is no Climategate or Private Manning. And Stratfor will emerge stronger for it.
Total horse pucky. Srsly.
1. Stratfor sells subscriptions. Buy one or don't. That's not "stealing."
2. Stratfor does Not "allow" the government to do anything and has nothing whatsoever to do with the government obtaining data from google/facebook/amazon.