At least he didn't go CFL. Those suckers have a life span of 5 months. Haven't tried LEDs yet, but all what I have seen so far is that they are about 5% brightness of CFL and Regular bulbs.
Yes, if you compare a LED bulb with x lumens with an incandescent of 20x lumens.
I'd be fine with dropping right to work laws, if we at the same time dropped the laws that required companies to negotiate with unions. So long as we're keeping laws that tell employers "you aren't free to refuse to sign contracts that aren't done on an individual basis," then leaving employees free to say that they don't want to be part of the union seems entirely reasonable.
Well, if the real reasons are on the books. Where they cannot legally fie you for something, they just document your every mistake and use the culumative of that to find a reason. Very few people can refrain from violating some rules when they are being specifically targeted for enforcement.
There is also something called constructive discharge that is extreamely hard to prove. This is where the rmployee makes an employee so uncomfortable working for them, they end up quitting instead of being fired.
Certainly, sometimes, companies come up with "official" reasons to fire someone when they're actually being fired because they're a woman/black/gay/whatever.
That said, if a company wants to fire someone because he's a Cubs fan, and the CEO loves the White Sox, that's (in the vast majority of cases) totally legal.
In the immortal words of Chris Rock, "OJ didn't get off because he was black, he got off because he was rich. If he had been poor, he'd be 'Orenthal the Murdering Bus Driver.'"
Got the quote wrong (and I believe that quote marks should actually mean direct quotes!):
"That shit wasn't about race... that shit was about fame. If O.J. wasn't famous he'd be in jail right now. If O.J. drove a bus, he wouldn't even be O.J. He'd be Orenthal the bus driving murderer."
In the immortal words of Chris Rock, "OJ didn't get off because he was black, he got off because he was rich. If he had been poor, he'd be 'Orenthal the Murdering Bus Driver.'"
Taft Hartley doesn't prevent workers from organizing, it limits the ability of unions from imposing their views on workers who don't share them. Since there seem to be enough of those to make unions much less effective, they have been declining in power.
The operative parts of Taft-Hartley here would be:
1) The sanction of "Right to Work" laws and jurisdictions, which abridge the right to contract. If you own a company in a right-to-work state, the you're surrounded by a magic bubble that makes it impossible for you to ever sign a contract of adhesion with labor. Any other company can compel whatever terms they please -- cable companies have contract rights than employees.
They don't at all abridge the right to contract. They just abridge the right of certain employees to force _other_ employees to contract. It's non-right-to-work jurisdictions that abridge the right to contract, by prohibiting employers from choosing NOT to contract.
Are you sure about that? What grounds would you fire such a person under? Is it against the law to criticize your employer? You just can't fire people for no reason (well, you're not supposed to.) I mean if an employee is doing their job, performing well, and secretly bashing you on twitter, is that really a legal ground for termination?
Definitely. Most employment in the US (outside of union contracts) is at will - your employer can fire you for any reason they want, EXCEPT for some specific exclusions (race/ethnicity, sex, age, family status/pregnancy, and (in some states) political opinions or sexual orientation).
Well, it's definitely not a felony, since there's no intention to commit another crime, and this isn't a gov't database.
As for it being a misdemeanor, you'd have to argue that noting down which systems are broadcasting their identification information somehow constitutes "without authorization, intentionally gain[ing] access to a computer system or electronic database of another." If they tried to access the information in your car's system, that would be one thing, but this is no different than just writing down license plates.
Looking at the balance sheet, there's about $2.8BN in cash, $900MM in inventory (figure that's basically zero now), and payables exceed receivables by about $1BN, so you're looking at a liquidation value of around $2BN. There's $2.2BN in property/plant/equipment, but it's highly unlikely you could actually get $2.2BN for that.
Many municipalities have a franchise arrangement that gives the local cable company a monopoly so long as the cable company pays a franchise fee.
While you're right about the franchise fees, it's important to note that virtually no areas of the country (outside of private housing developments) have monopoly franchises, as they're generally banned. In 99% of the US, if you want to start your own cable company, can show that you have the financial wherewithal to see it through (don't want people to just start tearing up the streets willy-nilly, and are willing to pay the standard franchise fee, you're on your way. Your way to bankruptcy, that is.
Cable operators aren't legal monopolies, they're _natural_ monopolies - it's a great business if you can get 50% penetration in an area. If you get 20% penetration, it's a terrible business, and you never make back your cost of capital. Even an operator like Verizon, who already has a huge presence, strong brand, customer service in place, yadda yadda, will probably never earn a return on FiOS.
Astrophysicist walks into a bar, orders a Mexican beer. Bartender yells, "OK, that's it, everybody out NOW!!!" As they're all leaving, another customer asks the astrophysicist, "what the heck is going on?" Astrophysicist replies "Coronal Mass Ejection."
I was in South Africa in 2011 and saw lots of billboards all over the country with the Health Ministers image on it and the quote "avoid AIDS, get circumcised".
This is good health policy. "There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%." - WHO (http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/)
She also held the policy of rejecting antivirals and instead promoted her own diet of garlic and beet root.
You've been able to do more without a paid subscription on the PS3 as well, and it hasn't seemed to have handicapped the Xbox's sales and market share.
"A very good example: the 16th Amendment, which has been used to justify Federal income tax, was never legally ratified. Before anybody argues: I am aware that it was declared to have been ratified, but by the end of the time limit it was still one state short of the minimum required. "
This is just playing a semantic game. It was declared ratified by the Secretary of State. The declaration has been confirmed on multiple occasions by the courts. That's what DEFINES ratified.
www.canistream.it
Will tell you if it's available for streaming across multiple platforms, available for on-demand rental, available for on-demand sale, or available for DVD or blu-ray sale.
Works for folks in the US.
Agreed. I used to use AVG, but switched all our machines over to MSE over the past year or so. Performance at least seems better (don't claim to have a robust benchmark for this), and haven't seen any problems.
It's almost like we needed a scapegoat for the change to be accepted, like how the George Lazenby James Bond movie is less well received even though one could argue that it's a much more coherent story than many of the other movies...
Most reviewers regard "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" as one of the better Bond movies, if not the best.
Saying that it's "not true" is wildly overstating the case. The results of the investigation were that, bottom line, the KLM captain took off without clearance. Several things contributed to that, including simultaneous radio transmissions (which meant that neither could be heard). Excessive cockpit deference may have been a contributor as well. It's not clear that it was, but there was enough evidence that it was to drive the industry to roll out Crew Resource Management over time.
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At least he didn't go CFL. Those suckers have a life span of 5 months. Haven't tried LEDs yet, but all what I have seen so far is that they are about 5% brightness of CFL and Regular bulbs.
Yes, if you compare a LED bulb with x lumens with an incandescent of 20x lumens.
Not a lot of astronomy going on in NYC.
I'd be fine with dropping right to work laws, if we at the same time dropped the laws that required companies to negotiate with unions. So long as we're keeping laws that tell employers "you aren't free to refuse to sign contracts that aren't done on an individual basis," then leaving employees free to say that they don't want to be part of the union seems entirely reasonable.
Well, if the real reasons are on the books. Where they cannot legally fie you for something, they just document your every mistake and use the culumative of that to find a reason. Very few people can refrain from violating some rules when they are being specifically targeted for enforcement.
There is also something called constructive discharge that is extreamely hard to prove. This is where the rmployee makes an employee so uncomfortable working for them, they end up quitting instead of being fired.
Certainly, sometimes, companies come up with "official" reasons to fire someone when they're actually being fired because they're a woman/black/gay/whatever. That said, if a company wants to fire someone because he's a Cubs fan, and the CEO loves the White Sox, that's (in the vast majority of cases) totally legal.
US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures
Headline looks entirely accurate to me. If the executions move forward, the drug won't be available for surgical procedures.
In the immortal words of Chris Rock, "OJ didn't get off because he was black, he got off because he was rich. If he had been poor, he'd be 'Orenthal the Murdering Bus Driver.'"
Got the quote wrong (and I believe that quote marks should actually mean direct quotes!): "That shit wasn't about race... that shit was about fame. If O.J. wasn't famous he'd be in jail right now. If O.J. drove a bus, he wouldn't even be O.J. He'd be Orenthal the bus driving murderer."
In the immortal words of Chris Rock, "OJ didn't get off because he was black, he got off because he was rich. If he had been poor, he'd be 'Orenthal the Murdering Bus Driver.'"
The operative parts of Taft-Hartley here would be:
1) The sanction of "Right to Work" laws and jurisdictions, which abridge the right to contract. If you own a company in a right-to-work state, the you're surrounded by a magic bubble that makes it impossible for you to ever sign a contract of adhesion with labor. Any other company can compel whatever terms they please -- cable companies have contract rights than employees.
They don't at all abridge the right to contract. They just abridge the right of certain employees to force _other_ employees to contract. It's non-right-to-work jurisdictions that abridge the right to contract, by prohibiting employers from choosing NOT to contract.
Are you sure about that? What grounds would you fire such a person under? Is it against the law to criticize your employer? You just can't fire people for no reason (well, you're not supposed to.) I mean if an employee is doing their job, performing well, and secretly bashing you on twitter, is that really a legal ground for termination?
Definitely. Most employment in the US (outside of union contracts) is at will - your employer can fire you for any reason they want, EXCEPT for some specific exclusions (race/ethnicity, sex, age, family status/pregnancy, and (in some states) political opinions or sexual orientation).
Well, it's definitely not a felony, since there's no intention to commit another crime, and this isn't a gov't database. As for it being a misdemeanor, you'd have to argue that noting down which systems are broadcasting their identification information somehow constitutes "without authorization, intentionally gain[ing] access to a computer system or electronic database of another." If they tried to access the information in your car's system, that would be one thing, but this is no different than just writing down license plates.
Looking at the balance sheet, there's about $2.8BN in cash, $900MM in inventory (figure that's basically zero now), and payables exceed receivables by about $1BN, so you're looking at a liquidation value of around $2BN. There's $2.2BN in property/plant/equipment, but it's highly unlikely you could actually get $2.2BN for that.
Many municipalities have a franchise arrangement that gives the local cable company a monopoly so long as the cable company pays a franchise fee.
While you're right about the franchise fees, it's important to note that virtually no areas of the country (outside of private housing developments) have monopoly franchises, as they're generally banned. In 99% of the US, if you want to start your own cable company, can show that you have the financial wherewithal to see it through (don't want people to just start tearing up the streets willy-nilly, and are willing to pay the standard franchise fee, you're on your way. Your way to bankruptcy, that is. Cable operators aren't legal monopolies, they're _natural_ monopolies - it's a great business if you can get 50% penetration in an area. If you get 20% penetration, it's a terrible business, and you never make back your cost of capital. Even an operator like Verizon, who already has a huge presence, strong brand, customer service in place, yadda yadda, will probably never earn a return on FiOS.
In that noted hotbed of free market radicalism, Germany, the Post Office has been a private business since 2000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Post
Astrophysicist walks into a bar, orders a Mexican beer. Bartender yells, "OK, that's it, everybody out NOW!!!" As they're all leaving, another customer asks the astrophysicist, "what the heck is going on?" Astrophysicist replies "Coronal Mass Ejection."
I was in South Africa in 2011 and saw lots of billboards all over the country with the Health Ministers image on it and the quote "avoid AIDS, get circumcised".
This is good health policy. "There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%." - WHO (http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/)
She also held the policy of rejecting antivirals and instead promoted her own diet of garlic and beet root.
This is garbage health policy.
You've been able to do more without a paid subscription on the PS3 as well, and it hasn't seemed to have handicapped the Xbox's sales and market share.
"A very good example: the 16th Amendment, which has been used to justify Federal income tax, was never legally ratified. Before anybody argues: I am aware that it was declared to have been ratified, but by the end of the time limit it was still one state short of the minimum required. " This is just playing a semantic game. It was declared ratified by the Secretary of State. The declaration has been confirmed on multiple occasions by the courts. That's what DEFINES ratified.
Maggie has already appeared in Who, though... http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Helen_A
Don't make DEEP SEVEN angry. You wouldn't like DEEP SEVEN when they're angry.
www.canistream.it Will tell you if it's available for streaming across multiple platforms, available for on-demand rental, available for on-demand sale, or available for DVD or blu-ray sale. Works for folks in the US.
Agreed. I used to use AVG, but switched all our machines over to MSE over the past year or so. Performance at least seems better (don't claim to have a robust benchmark for this), and haven't seen any problems.
It's almost like we needed a scapegoat for the change to be accepted, like how the George Lazenby James Bond movie is less well received even though one could argue that it's a much more coherent story than many of the other movies...
Most reviewers regard "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" as one of the better Bond movies, if not the best.
Saying that it's "not true" is wildly overstating the case. The results of the investigation were that, bottom line, the KLM captain took off without clearance. Several things contributed to that, including simultaneous radio transmissions (which meant that neither could be heard). Excessive cockpit deference may have been a contributor as well. It's not clear that it was, but there was enough evidence that it was to drive the industry to roll out Crew Resource Management over time.
In fairness, some of those (Chernobyl, certainly) were the result of flawed _design_, not workmanship.
Up until late 19th century, the age of sexual/marriage majority matched being a biological adult.
The idea that marriage is now much later than it used to be is a common misconception, at least for Europe and the US. Really, the outlier in (relatively) recent history was the post-WWII era, when age of first marriage dropped sharply from the levels of the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1890, average age of first marriage for women in the US was 23.5, and 26.5 for men. http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/marriage/data/acs/ElliottetalPAA2012figs.pdf In the late 18th century, average age was 20-22 for women, ~26 for men. http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-England-1500-1800-Abridged-footnotes/dp/0061319791/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1327690657&sr=8-3