No, representing yourself as a Professional Engineer, and/or signatures with a "P.E.", when you are not, in fact, a currently-registered Professional Engineer is a violation. As well as civilly actionable as Fraud, should it be used in a professional context.
But anything more than that is governmental restraint on speech. . .
. . . . I had to deal with outsourced services to India, back around the turn of the century, when I was working for a Dot-com. We were experimenting with outsourcing. The boss had contracted some Indian services firm to take 1000 Material Safety Data Sheets, in scanned PDFs, and type the contents of each into a Microsoft Word file. As I recall, he paid 500 bucks for it.
Average results were 20+ errors per page. Spelling, words missing, whatever, it was there in the results file.
This compares to a similar contract, same task, somewhere in Flyover Country. Zero errors, and notes pointing out mis-spellings in the ORIGINAL PDFs. Cost 5 grand, but worth it. . . .
Back in my undergrad days, the Engineering-track Physics I and II courses had textbooks that were huge stacks of punched stencilled pages ( required a 4-inch binder. ..). Cost, between 12 and 14 dollars, plus a 6 dollar binder.
Junior Year, both volumes came out as a textbook. 80 bucks. And, of course, enough minor changes in the exercises that the old paper editions were useless.
Oddly enough, the professor who taught the course bought a new car that year.
There are a few crackpot cultists who genuinely believe a society organized around slavery would be a good thing, but opinions per se can't really hurt anyone.
Oh we have PLENTY of people who like the idea of a society organized around slavery. We call them "H1B Employers". . . . (evil grin)
Depends. But I still have Install CDs for WinNT 4.0 and Win2000 Server and Workstation, and valid install keys for the 2000 CDs (Those of you who ran NT know how to do the serial for NT. . . ). As well as matching SQL and Exchange Servers for both generations, and all the Service Packs.
And my old books. So, if needed, I do have skills and software that will work in a pinch.
Then again, I also have current Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mint images. Methinks I'll stick with them (grin)
Except "reducing my load" would drop my income, which is already stretched with the care of a handicapped daughter's expenses that insurance and SSI don't cover. . .
. . . . I do my best to spend weekends and days off, sleeping in. Because, between the job, the commute, and everything else I'm committed to, I'm currently booked at 25+ hours on a GOOD day.
8 hours of uninterrupted sleep is pretty much a luxury to me. . .
Please get back to me when the Congress passes a formal Declaration of War on "Drugs" or "Terror". Laws have definitions, and to even sustain a charge, much less a conviction, on a charge of treason, the United States must legally been in a State of War with a given nation. We haven't been in one since World War II ended.
The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offence is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Hint: we're not at war.
Now, this very well COULD meet the legal definitions of sedition, as well as the employees in question being sanctioned for violating policy. . .
It is a crime to release official information without permission, And even more of a crime if it's sensitive or classified. There's this category of "For Official Use Only". . .
The pool of skilled labour is limited to the point that is making it hard for them to get the staff they need, so the obvious solution is to expand the pool. Diversity, H1B, education programmes...
. . . Tech hiring's job is to assemble the most competent team possible. When you have sufficient solid coders, architects, and engineers, then, MAYBE, you can worry about 'diversity". I'd put the money into education and training. And ignore H-1B entirely. . .
. ..which is not information security policy, it's bureaucrats getting their jollies and over-promoted mall cops living out their Dirty Harry fantasies.
All the REAL infosec policy comes out of NIST in Gaithersburg, not DHS on Nebraska Avenue. . .
I have some excellent ideas for reducing CO2 emissions. . . . Now, if you'll just step on to the moving sidewalks, passing pastoral paintings into the rotating knives. . . .
. . . meanwhile, GOVERNMENT overhead surveillance (manned and drone/satellite) has been going on for decades, and no complaints. Perhaps that KNOWING you're under surveillance makes all the difference. . .
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Well, then get his ass to Mars. . . .
No, representing yourself as a Professional Engineer, and/or signatures with a "P.E.", when you are not, in fact, a currently-registered Professional Engineer is a violation. As well as civilly actionable as Fraud, should it be used in a professional context.
But anything more than that is governmental restraint on speech. . .
. . . . their personalities are de-facto birth control. . . . (grin)
. . . . I had to deal with outsourced services to India, back around the turn of the century, when I was working for a Dot-com. We were experimenting with outsourcing. The boss had contracted some Indian services firm to take 1000 Material Safety Data Sheets, in scanned PDFs, and type the contents of each into a Microsoft Word file. As I recall, he paid 500 bucks for it.
Average results were 20+ errors per page. Spelling, words missing, whatever, it was there in the results file.
This compares to a similar contract, same task, somewhere in Flyover Country. Zero errors, and notes pointing out mis-spellings in the ORIGINAL PDFs. Cost 5 grand, but worth it. . . .
. . . .even without Milla Jovovich.
Multipass!
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is an very much extended and expanded version of the idea in Clarke's 1948 short story, "The Sentinel"
Back in my undergrad days, the Engineering-track Physics I and II courses had textbooks that were huge stacks of punched stencilled pages ( required a 4-inch binder. . .). Cost, between 12 and 14 dollars, plus a 6 dollar binder.
Junior Year, both volumes came out as a textbook. 80 bucks. And, of course, enough minor changes in the exercises that the old paper editions were useless.
Oddly enough, the professor who taught the course bought a new car that year.
Funny how that works. . .
There are a few crackpot cultists who genuinely believe a society organized around slavery would be a good thing, but opinions per se can't really hurt anyone.
Oh we have PLENTY of people who like the idea of a society organized around slavery. We call them "H1B Employers". . . . (evil grin)
Depends. But I still have Install CDs for WinNT 4.0 and Win2000 Server and Workstation, and valid install keys for the 2000 CDs (Those of you who ran NT know how to do the serial for NT. . . ). As well as matching SQL and Exchange Servers for both generations, and all the Service Packs.
And my old books. So, if needed, I do have skills and software that will work in a pinch.
Then again, I also have current Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mint images. Methinks I'll stick with them (grin)
Really. For one, it's the wrong cable to install in a plenum. . . . . (evil grin)
Except "reducing my load" would drop my income, which is already stretched with the care of a handicapped daughter's expenses that insurance and SSI don't cover. . .
. . . . I do my best to spend weekends and days off, sleeping in. Because, between the job, the commute, and everything else I'm committed to, I'm currently booked at 25+ hours on a GOOD day.
8 hours of uninterrupted sleep is pretty much a luxury to me. . .
. . . I see no mention of any other company than John Deere doing this, and only on recent models.
I see no mention of New Holland, Kubota, Mahindra, or other brands. Seems like a marketing advantage for all the other brands.
This looks like John Deere's "New Coke" moment , , , ,
Really. If that actually were true, the Fortune 500 would be staffed by as many Hispanic women as they could hire. . .
. . . .prior to reading Book 9, "At the Sign of Triumph"
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Might I direct you to the United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, aka the "War Powers Clause"
Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
The Congress has not declared War since 1941.
Please get back to me when the Congress passes a formal Declaration of War on "Drugs" or "Terror". Laws have definitions, and to even sustain a charge, much less a conviction, on a charge of treason, the United States must legally been in a State of War with a given nation. We haven't been in one since World War II ended.
By its' very definitiion. . .
The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offence is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Hint: we're not at war.
Now, this very well COULD meet the legal definitions of sedition, as well as the employees in question being sanctioned for violating policy. . .
It is a crime to release official information without permission, And even more of a crime if it's sensitive or classified. There's this category of "For Official Use Only". . .
The pool of skilled labour is limited to the point that is making it hard for them to get the staff they need, so the obvious solution is to expand the pool. Diversity, H1B, education programmes...
. . . Tech hiring's job is to assemble the most competent team possible. When you have sufficient solid coders, architects, and engineers, then, MAYBE, you can worry about 'diversity". I'd put the money into education and training. And ignore H-1B entirely. . .
. . .which is not information security policy, it's bureaucrats getting their jollies and over-promoted mall cops living out their Dirty Harry fantasies.
All the REAL infosec policy comes out of NIST in Gaithersburg, not DHS on Nebraska Avenue. . .
I have some excellent ideas for reducing CO2 emissions. . . . Now, if you'll just step on to the moving sidewalks, passing pastoral paintings into the rotating knives. . . .
. . . .and merely between continental glacial advances. Another of which is due Real Soon Now*
(* Real Soon Now in Geologic terms, meaning some time in the next ~10,000 years. . . .)
. . . meanwhile, GOVERNMENT overhead surveillance (manned and drone/satellite) has been going on for decades, and no complaints. Perhaps that KNOWING you're under surveillance makes all the difference. . .
. . . .was Joss Whedon and gang went and did "Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog". . .
So, if there **IS** a strike, how about a sequel, Joss ?? (grin)