Hi Abfullah, I mostly agree with you (although it is possible to spam message boards and newsgroups, happens a lot), however people on slashdot prefer amazon to get the referal money instead of joe bloggs, which is a bit strange IMHO.
Of course, buy not buying through the link in the story, you dont support slashdot.
thirdly, in the USA, standard labor laws generally allow a certain amount of slack for clocking in times for timepeice variation. In most areas that I have worked, this is 3-5 minutes.
A company I worked for generally let you go if you were ocasionally a few minutes late. However some people abused the system - clocking in 3-4 minutes late for work, off to lunch 3 minutes early, back 3 minutes late, off home 3-4 minutes early.
Thats 10-15 minutes a day, or an hour a week. At $15 an hour thats $750 a year.
Of course it depends on the job. BA checkin desk people went on strike because they were going to change to a new clocking in system a few months ago, and for soem reason they werent sacked?
You always have differences, in some cases extreme, with other people if you are part of a party. Compare the libertarians to Republicans, democrats or greens though, and they're the only ones with any decent policies, at least for people that believe in freedom.
People subscribe to slashdot, and dont get any real benefits (you can block ads in mozilla anyway, and seeing another dupe 20 minutes before the rest of the public?). Why do I spend 10 bucks on a tshirt when matalan have 5 for five pounds? Because I prefer to support slashdot. Why buy "fair trade" coffee over nescafe? Because you care were your money goes.
The people buying slashdot tshirts will buy the official ones. In the worst case, simply have a trademark (the slashdot image should be a trademark) on the tshirt. Remember trademarks are for consumer protection, so you know you get the real thing.
Well, I've got the worlds oldest laptop, an IBM 380ED, 80MB ram, P166, 3GB hard drive, however when I get home I just drop it into a docking bay that cost 10 from ebay. Thats got external monitor, mouse, keyboard, power and cat 5 already in place.
And it wont exactly bust the bank compared the the trillions spent on social security handouts to the unemployed each year (see my journal for yet another moan). Come to think of it, we havent had any shuttle launches this year, thats saved, what, $2bn?
I live in Walthamstow, work in Shepherd's Bush, and I know what you mean. Its not confined to London though, Exeter's just the same, albeit on a smaller scale, Manchesters pretty much the same scale. Normally I ignore beggars - but this guy looked like he should have been in hospital, definatly didnt have the heart or energy to kick up a fuss. I didnt think to ask him why he wasnt getting help as I'd had a long day and it was 11PM.
This was down on the station platform though, Any idea why LUL staff hadnt moved him on?
I remember a time I was 2p short for a train ticket home at Manc. Oxford road once, couldnt find anything on the floor, but a station worker gave me the dosh.
As for 1000 per month for a 1 bedroom flat, tell me about it. I'm paying 410 a month for a 4m*4m room in a shared house (albeit with all utilities, sky, cable internet, councili tax etc paid for). Another 90pm for tube and nearly 30% tax and theres not much left.
I remember a story an old teacher once told me. He met a lad that had left school a few years earlier, joined the army. He had a drinking problem, got discharged, and ended up begging on the streets of manchester. Anyway, the teacher took him for a good meal and found out his life story. After the meal they parted ways, but the lad dropped dead a few hundered yards up the road. The only person at the funeral was my teacher.
I'm not laying blame on anyone, but somewhere something went wrong wtih this man. Sure he had plenty of chacnes to turn himself round, but you have to wonder why people dont. In many cases beggars are on better "wages" then me - even before taxes, but there are a few genuine cases there. Why arent they in hostels? Why arent they in glaswegian flats? Why are they rooting through bins outside macdonalds - not just in London but in Exeter? Solve the 10% of cases that are genuine, slap major dis-incentives on the rest, and hopefully begging will evaporate.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed, look at their network
Or stop being frightened of a little competition for jobs and remove all need for visas
Yet, it is offensive. And of course completely inaccurate as any casual historical research would reveal.
Yes, thats right. Lets just have a google.
Hi Abfullah, I mostly agree with you (although it is possible to spam message boards and newsgroups, happens a lot), however people on slashdot prefer amazon to get the referal money instead of joe bloggs, which is a bit strange IMHO.
Of course, buy not buying through the link in the story, you dont support slashdot.
Just like Jones in "Dad's Army"
DONT PANIC! DONT PANAIC!!
Is that before or after brunch?
thirdly, in the USA, standard labor laws generally allow a certain amount of slack for clocking in times for timepeice variation. In most areas that I have worked, this is 3-5 minutes.
A company I worked for generally let you go if you were ocasionally a few minutes late. However some people abused the system - clocking in 3-4 minutes late for work, off to lunch 3 minutes early, back 3 minutes late, off home 3-4 minutes early.
Thats 10-15 minutes a day, or an hour a week. At $15 an hour thats $750 a year.
Of course it depends on the job. BA checkin desk people went on strike because they were going to change to a new clocking in system a few months ago, and for soem reason they werent sacked?
hyperbole? Is that like the next generateion superbowl?
Do you realise how silly that sounds. It's like Burger king opening up next to macdonalds and saying "macdonalds are stealing our potential profit".
Typical american, no mention of John Logie Baird or the BBC
go out for breakfast, coming in 3 or 4 hours late.
Man no wonder americans are so fat if you spend 4 hours eating breakfast! How longs a 3 course dinner? 17 weeks?
The only way he loses is if you decide he is a great author, so you pirate all his books.
Even then he doesnt, technically, lose, he just doesnt gain, it's as if you never read his first book to find out how good he was.
You always have differences, in some cases extreme, with other people if you are part of a party. Compare the libertarians to Republicans, democrats or greens though, and they're the only ones with any decent policies, at least for people that believe in freedom.
17 dollars! no wonder you get beggars!
So wheres the line? Pay for food? housing? education? lung transplant? libraries? TV? computers? internet access? car? music downloads?
Please define "society at large"?
Speak for yourself, there is hope
Oldest laptop thats still usable with modern software :)
People subscribe to slashdot, and dont get any real benefits (you can block ads in mozilla anyway, and seeing another dupe 20 minutes before the rest of the public?). Why do I spend 10 bucks on a tshirt when matalan have 5 for five pounds? Because I prefer to support slashdot. Why buy "fair trade" coffee over nescafe? Because you care were your money goes.
The people buying slashdot tshirts will buy the official ones. In the worst case, simply have a trademark (the slashdot image should be a trademark) on the tshirt. Remember trademarks are for consumer protection, so you know you get the real thing.
Well, I've got the worlds oldest laptop, an IBM 380ED, 80MB ram, P166, 3GB hard drive, however when I get home I just drop it into a docking bay that cost 10 from ebay. Thats got external monitor, mouse, keyboard, power and cat 5 already in place.
And it wont exactly bust the bank compared the the trillions spent on social security handouts to the unemployed each year (see my journal for yet another moan). Come to think of it, we havent had any shuttle launches this year, thats saved, what, $2bn?
Nah, if kernel developers read slashdot, nothing would get done!
They site it in a place with none to very low lightning levels anyway.
I live in Walthamstow, work in Shepherd's Bush, and I know what you mean. Its not confined to London though, Exeter's just the same, albeit on a smaller scale, Manchesters pretty much the same scale. Normally I ignore beggars - but this guy looked like he should have been in hospital, definatly didnt have the heart or energy to kick up a fuss. I didnt think to ask him why he wasnt getting help as I'd had a long day and it was 11PM.
This was down on the station platform though, Any idea why LUL staff hadnt moved him on?
I remember a time I was 2p short for a train ticket home at Manc. Oxford road once, couldnt find anything on the floor, but a station worker gave me the dosh.
As for 1000 per month for a 1 bedroom flat, tell me about it. I'm paying 410 a month for a 4m*4m room in a shared house (albeit with all utilities, sky, cable internet, councili tax etc paid for). Another 90pm for tube and nearly 30% tax and theres not much left.
I remember a story an old teacher once told me. He met a lad that had left school a few years earlier, joined the army. He had a drinking problem, got discharged, and ended up begging on the streets of manchester. Anyway, the teacher took him for a good meal and found out his life story. After the meal they parted ways, but the lad dropped dead a few hundered yards up the road. The only person at the funeral was my teacher.
I'm not laying blame on anyone, but somewhere something went wrong wtih this man. Sure he had plenty of chacnes to turn himself round, but you have to wonder why people dont. In many cases beggars are on better "wages" then me - even before taxes, but there are a few genuine cases there. Why arent they in hostels? Why arent they in glaswegian flats? Why are they rooting through bins outside macdonalds - not just in London but in Exeter? Solve the 10% of cases that are genuine, slap major dis-incentives on the rest, and hopefully begging will evaporate.
Try playing quake through a GEO