Most states now are right-to-work states, which means that they can fire you for no reason, and you can quit for no reason, and nobody can do anything about it.
ITYM "at-will employment states"--the definition of being an at-will employee is that either party may terminate employment, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice.
That's correct for newer patents--utility patents expire 20 years from the date of the patent application.
Under the older system, however, patents expired 17 years from the date the patent was granted. ISTR that expiry of the JPEG "patent" is covered under that system, rather than the newer one.
Let's face it, folks: there is no right to anonymity. Check the Constituion if you want. It's not there. Come to think of it, there's no right to privacy either, but that's a different debate.
Ahem.
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Or, in other words, just because it isn't mentioned in the US Constitution doesn't mean it isn't a right retained by US citizens.
I'm not about to claim that the presence of teachers' unions increases their pay--the fact that I'm now (after 3 years) earning more than my father did after teaching for 25 years would seem to indicate that the unions are not being as successful as they should.
However, to claim that the absence of those unions would result in higher pay is equally ridiculous. Believe me, school boards, in general, are no more interested in doing things "for the children"--or in paying good teachers what they're worth--than the unions are.
As a case in point, I offer the recent debacle in the Ann Arbor Public Schools. They were found to be using an illegal contract for their subsitute teachers. They continued to use that contract while they appealed the case. Now not only do they have to pay damages and salary to the subs--to the tune of $30 million--but they're also involved in a malpractice lawsuit against the firm that told them that the contract was good (and that failed to advise them to stop using the bloody thing).
Had the school board and administration had the best interests of the students at heart, they'd have stopped using the contract after they lost in the first court.
As for evaluations, the problem is not that they're not done (my experience says that they are), but that they're not done properly. Even a horrible teacher--the kind that really shouldn't be teaching--can generally do all right for the few hours of a few days in a given school year that an administrator typically sits in the classroom to evaluate them.
What a fucking nonsensical, nazi attack on everybody's favourite whipping boy, the bad bad smoker.
Invoking a comparison to Hitler and/or the Nazis is generally a sign that you've no worthwhile arguments. Do try to avoid it.
In any event, "What effects does heavy smoking near a computer have on its operation?" is a legitimate question. That the person who originally posted the question finds smoking (or at least its aftereffects on a computer) "disgusting", and you evidently don't, has no effect on whether or not the question is legitimate. Certainly the answer would be of interest to any computer techs out there.
What about chip fragments for all the fucking fatass computer programmers out there? What about all the coke spilled on various computer parts by all the fucking assholes who drink that shite.
The damage that can be done by those particular items is well-known.
Oooh, gooy yuck. Get a fucking life. Bunch of fucking ponces.
Someone moderated this as "insightful"? *sigh* Time to turn "willing to moderate" back on...
If we train kids in school now, to turn in their classmates, how long until we ask them to rat on their parents, for anti-social behavior, the use of drugs, etc.
DARE ("Drug Abuse Resistance Education", for non-USAians) already does this. And my parents wonder why I called it propaganda...
Hey, Easterner, the entire West Coast is on power saving cutbacks - Washington, Oregon, California. That's 25 percent of the population of this country and more than half of the high tech areas. That's half of the broadband service customers.
According to the US Census Bureau's 2000 Census results, as of 2000/04/01:
US Population: 281,424,177
California: 33,930,798
Oregon: 3,428,543
Washington: 5,908,684
I believe you'll find that the three states you cite only make up 15 percent of the population of the US.
If it requires "unanimous consent", then that's merely a procedural rule (as opposed to one spelled out in the Constitution). Unfortunately, that probably means there's a procedure for getting around the need for unanimous consent...
What is spelled out in the Constitution is that President Clinton has ten days (Sundays excepted) from the date the bill passed the Congress to sign it, or--since Congress has adjourned--the bill is not a law. By my count, that means H.R. 46 will officially be dead if he doesn't sign it on or before December 27, 2000.
I have always been amazed that any employee wouldn't tell their boss to shove it sideways up his ass, wide end first, and walk out the door.
For many of us it's not that simple. And heaven knows, I've been tempted to do exactly that at my present job. (Twice, in fact--the two cases involved a not-quite-correct bug report, and a known bug that I'd been specifically ordered not to fix.) But the fact of the matter is that I have other people to worry about--like my wife and son. That means that walking out the door without having secured other employment is not an option.
The main arguement against flex-time is that of communication. You can't exactly talk to someone at 5:15pm if they clock off at 5:00pm on the dot everyday.
Yes, but that can be worked around by various means. My company's gotten around it by requiring "core hours" of 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., where everyone's required to be present. Basically, this means I have a two-hour window (7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.) when I can come in, which seems reasonable to me...
Anyway, the whole point of the Census-- the reason it is in the constitution-- is to give government agencies, especially Congress, the information they need to determine the effects of different public policies. For instance, if the Congressional Budget Office wants to determine what the effects of a tax increase will be-- who it will hit and by how much, and what the effects on revenue will be, they need that information. The Census makes government (theoretically) more science and less guesswork. There's still plenty of opinion to politics, but solid numbers helps people.
Better go back and review your civics courses.
The reason that the US Constitution specifies that a census be taken every ten years is to apportion Representatives among the states. That's it. That's all the Constitution specifies. It doesn't say anything about giving the government any information other than how many people live in each state.
The rest of it may be useful to the government, but they have no Constitutional mandate to collect it.
1.) The NYU FAQ says that you have to use an Apple Powerbook. Don't you think that they'll get a backlash from, say, the Windoze and Linux users who don't want to buy a whole new computer?
Have you ever met a University administrator who cared what the students thought?
2.) Isn't it just a matter of time before someone breaks whatever sort of encryption thing they have on these and we get a DeCSS-like situation?
Ayup.
3.) What if you don't want to have to stare at a screen to read the book, but (god forbid) you want something tangible that you can scribble in and mark up?
<sarcasm>Funny, I thought that students sold back all their textbooks every semester...</sarcasm>
Again, ever met a University administrator who cared? I certainly haven't.
This would definitely have been a problem for me--if nothing else, I used permanent ink to correct typos in my textbooks, highlighter markers to draw attention to critical points, etc.
What episode did they do "Manos: the hands of fate"? [...] Anyone know the episode number???
Not offhand, but I can tell you that it's one of the ones that was released on "official" videotape. I got my copy in a boxed set with "Gunslinger" and "Poopie" (an outtakes reel).
Another example, a few years back, Windsor's casinos are causing Detroit residents to step into Canada to gamble away their money. The Detroit mayor at that time wanted to allow detroit-based casino so Detroit residents can gamble it away in their own city.
He's still the mayor of Detroit, presuming you were referring to Dennis Archer and not Coleman Young. Regardless, Michigan state law now allows casinos in Detroit (IIRC there are presently three of them)--but only in Detroit. (Yes, I know there are several up north--the Soaring Eagle in Mount Pleasant, to name one--but those are on Indian reservations where they are regulated not by state law, but by Federal law.)
There has been a second organization that is based on the Hitler Youth organization. It's international....it's called the Boy Scouts (and Girl Scouts).
Hmm... the scouting organizations based on the Hitler Youth, eh? That's odd, because according to the Encyclopædia Brittanica, the Boy Scouts were founded in 1908 by a British cavalry officer, one Lt. Gen. Robert S. S. Baden-Powell; the organization expanded to the US in 1910.
The Hitler Youth weren't founded until 1933.
I'm not a gigantic fan of the BSA, but claiming that they're based on the Hitler Youth organization is IMO somewhat slanderous, and is most definitely inaccurate. If there's any connection between the two, it's more likely that the Hitler Youth were based on the scouts, and not the other way around.
An equally emotional counter-arguement is necessary, not more facts and figures.
Being from the area (Jenison), I can tell you that an emotional counter-argument will not help. The people leading the campaign to have the filters placed in Holland's library are most likely the sort that made me vow to avoid living in Ottawa County ever again, if I can help it--the sort who believe that they have a hammerlock on the truth, handed down to them and only them from God.
There's a certain arrogance that goes along with being an Ann-Arborite, but at least they're not as bloody closed-minded...
This is starting to remind me of the vi/emacs religious wars. The fact is that OO is a design paradigm. It isn't any "better" or "worse" than other design paradigms....
Thank you. I was wondering if anyone would actually come out and say this.
This has reminded me of the vi/emacs squabble for years now, ever since I started hearing people touting the OO paradigm as the Cure for All Computing Ills. Using OOP doesn't guarantee that your program's code will run quicker or will be easier to understand--the project I'm currently assigned to contains several examples that would prove my point (I'd supply those examples, but the source is closed... sorry, not my choice).
Careful planning while you're designing a program is more conducive to program speed, clarity, and general code quality than the programming paradigm you select--though the paradigm should be affected by the nature of the problem you're trying to solve.
Lisa and I also met online--though in our case, it was through a play-by-email RPG. That expanded to chats on IRC (especially when the game also expanded, for a time, to IRC). We finally met FTF on 20/3/1997, and got married almost exactly two years later.
The online relationship introduced me to all sorts of new things... such as getting inspected by customs when entering Canada[1], how one obtains a K-1 entry visa through the INS[2], the procedure for obtaining US permanent residency[3]...
I'd have to agree that talking extensively before we met IRL helped. At the very least, I felt like I already knew Lisa, which overcame some of the problems I'd had when asking women out before (like being nervous as hell...)
[1] And an interesting experience it was... [2] Lots of paperwork flying back and forth, involving two government agencies (the INS and the US Consulate in Montreal--the Montreal consulate is BTW the only consulate in Canada that handles immigration matters). [3] Which is required after you get married...
How about this for arrogance:- my Windows NT box lists all *.html files as being of type "Microsoft HTML Document 5.0". Since when did Microsoft own HTML?
Netscape's no better with this particular problem. I seem to have a whole bunch of "Netscape Hypertext Document" files on my computer.:)
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ITYM "at-will employment states"--the definition of being an at-will employee is that either party may terminate employment, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice.
That's correct for newer patents--utility patents expire 20 years from the date of the patent application.
Under the older system, however, patents expired 17 years from the date the patent was granted. ISTR that expiry of the JPEG "patent" is covered under that system, rather than the newer one.
Ahem.
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Or, in other words, just because it isn't mentioned in the US Constitution doesn't mean it isn't a right retained by US citizens.
I'm not about to claim that the presence of teachers' unions increases their pay--the fact that I'm now (after 3 years) earning more than my father did after teaching for 25 years would seem to indicate that the unions are not being as successful as they should.
However, to claim that the absence of those unions would result in higher pay is equally ridiculous. Believe me, school boards, in general, are no more interested in doing things "for the children"--or in paying good teachers what they're worth--than the unions are.
As a case in point, I offer the recent debacle in the Ann Arbor Public Schools. They were found to be using an illegal contract for their subsitute teachers. They continued to use that contract while they appealed the case. Now not only do they have to pay damages and salary to the subs--to the tune of $30 million--but they're also involved in a malpractice lawsuit against the firm that told them that the contract was good (and that failed to advise them to stop using the bloody thing).
Had the school board and administration had the best interests of the students at heart, they'd have stopped using the contract after they lost in the first court.
As for evaluations, the problem is not that they're not done (my experience says that they are), but that they're not done properly. Even a horrible teacher--the kind that really shouldn't be teaching--can generally do all right for the few hours of a few days in a given school year that an administrator typically sits in the classroom to evaluate them.
East Lansing, Michigan, to be specific--near (and on) Michigan State University's campus.
If you're really concerned about the governent subverting the algorithm, then go visit Vincent Rijmen's page about Rijndael.
Invoking a comparison to Hitler and/or the Nazis is generally a sign that you've no worthwhile arguments. Do try to avoid it.
In any event, "What effects does heavy smoking near a computer have on its operation?" is a legitimate question. That the person who originally posted the question finds smoking (or at least its aftereffects on a computer) "disgusting", and you evidently don't, has no effect on whether or not the question is legitimate. Certainly the answer would be of interest to any computer techs out there.
The damage that can be done by those particular items is well-known.
Someone moderated this as "insightful"? *sigh* Time to turn "willing to moderate" back on...
It's not just you, no.
DARE ("Drug Abuse Resistance Education", for non-USAians) already does this. And my parents wonder why I called it propaganda...
According to the US Census Bureau's 2000 Census results, as of 2000/04/01:
I believe you'll find that the three states you cite only make up 15 percent of the population of the US.
If it requires "unanimous consent", then that's merely a procedural rule (as opposed to one spelled out in the Constitution). Unfortunately, that probably means there's a procedure for getting around the need for unanimous consent...
What is spelled out in the Constitution is that President Clinton has ten days (Sundays excepted) from the date the bill passed the Congress to sign it, or--since Congress has adjourned--the bill is not a law. By my count, that means H.R. 46 will officially be dead if he doesn't sign it on or before December 27, 2000.
For many of us it's not that simple. And heaven knows, I've been tempted to do exactly that at my present job. (Twice, in fact--the two cases involved a not-quite-correct bug report, and a known bug that I'd been specifically ordered not to fix.) But the fact of the matter is that I have other people to worry about--like my wife and son. That means that walking out the door without having secured other employment is not an option.
Yes, but that can be worked around by various means. My company's gotten around it by requiring "core hours" of 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., where everyone's required to be present. Basically, this means I have a two-hour window (7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.) when I can come in, which seems reasonable to me...
After that, however...
Better go back and review your civics courses.
The reason that the US Constitution specifies that a census be taken every ten years is to apportion Representatives among the states. That's it. That's all the Constitution specifies. It doesn't say anything about giving the government any information other than how many people live in each state.
The rest of it may be useful to the government, but they have no Constitutional mandate to collect it.
Have you ever met a University administrator who cared what the students thought?
Ayup.
<sarcasm>Funny, I thought that students sold back all their textbooks every semester...</sarcasm>
Again, ever met a University administrator who cared? I certainly haven't.
This would definitely have been a problem for me--if nothing else, I used permanent ink to correct typos in my textbooks, highlighter markers to draw attention to critical points, etc.
Not offhand, but I can tell you that it's one of the ones that was released on "official" videotape. I got my copy in a boxed set with "Gunslinger" and "Poopie" (an outtakes reel).
Don't forget the Michael shell that was programmed by the master as a replacement for Torgo when the master got p*ssed off at Torgo...
--M, who wonders if that's the only film that both Frank and Dr. Forrester apologized for...
He's still the mayor of Detroit, presuming you were referring to Dennis Archer and not Coleman Young. Regardless, Michigan state law now allows casinos in Detroit (IIRC there are presently three of them)--but only in Detroit. (Yes, I know there are several up north--the Soaring Eagle in Mount Pleasant, to name one--but those are on Indian reservations where they are regulated not by state law, but by Federal law.)
A point of fact, here: ISPs do not have and never have had "common carrier" status, at least not in in the US. Not in the legal sense, anyway.
Hmm... the scouting organizations based on the Hitler Youth, eh? That's odd, because according to the Encyclopædia Brittanica, the Boy Scouts were founded in 1908 by a British cavalry officer, one Lt. Gen. Robert S. S. Baden-Powell; the organization expanded to the US in 1910.
The Hitler Youth weren't founded until 1933.
I'm not a gigantic fan of the BSA, but claiming that they're based on the Hitler Youth organization is IMO somewhat slanderous, and is most definitely inaccurate. If there's any connection between the two, it's more likely that the Hitler Youth were based on the scouts, and not the other way around.
Being from the area (Jenison), I can tell you that an emotional counter-argument will not help. The people leading the campaign to have the filters placed in Holland's library are most likely the sort that made me vow to avoid living in Ottawa County ever again, if I can help it--the sort who believe that they have a hammerlock on the truth, handed down to them and only them from God.
There's a certain arrogance that goes along with being an Ann-Arborite, but at least they're not as bloody closed-minded...
Thank you. I was wondering if anyone would actually come out and say this.
This has reminded me of the vi/emacs squabble for years now, ever since I started hearing people touting the OO paradigm as the Cure for All Computing Ills. Using OOP doesn't guarantee that your program's code will run quicker or will be easier to understand--the project I'm currently assigned to contains several examples that would prove my point (I'd supply those examples, but the source is closed... sorry, not my choice).
Careful planning while you're designing a program is more conducive to program speed, clarity, and general code quality than the programming paradigm you select--though the paradigm should be affected by the nature of the problem you're trying to solve.
The online relationship introduced me to all sorts of new things... such as getting inspected by customs when entering Canada[1], how one obtains a K-1 entry visa through the INS[2], the procedure for obtaining US permanent residency[3]...
I'd have to agree that talking extensively before we met IRL helped. At the very least, I felt like I already knew Lisa, which overcame some of the problems I'd had when asking women out before (like being nervous as hell...)
[1] And an interesting experience it was...
[2] Lots of paperwork flying back and forth, involving two government agencies (the INS and the US Consulate in Montreal--the Montreal consulate is BTW the only consulate in Canada that handles immigration matters).
[3] Which is required after you get married...
Netscape's no better with this particular problem. I seem to have a whole bunch of "Netscape Hypertext Document" files on my computer. :)
Probably. Of course, getting $125,000,000 from Microsoft (see Inprise's press release) probably didn't hurt, either.