They don't. They don't need to, nor do they have a right to. Everyone needs to just pick whatever hours work best for them. Lots of employers already have more flexible working hours, because they've realized that not everyone absolutely needs to have the exact same hours; that's why so many companies have '"core hours". And with so much business being international, you're never going to get everyone on the same schedule anyway. Companies in California are not going to have the same hours as companies in New York, and neither of them will have the same hours as companies in China. So what exactly is the point? Obviously, employees need to come in to work when their employer requires, but there's nothing new about that. The idea that some factory needs to have the same hours as other businesses is just silly; they're likely getting shipments from far-flung timezones anyway, not from other companies one or two towns over like back in the 1800s. And retail business have to pick different hours anyway, in order to maximize their customer traffic, which is why so many retail stores stay open late and have weekend hours. You can't close your doors at 5PM and somehow expect consumers, who all work 9-5 jobs (or thereabouts), to somehow get to your store during those hours. A lot of stupid mom-and-pop shops never seem to understand that concept, but the big-box stores all do.
Perhaps, but the other issue is that the Hopi reservation is actually in Arizona, so it makes sense for them to just do what the rest of the state is doing (though a component of that may be thumbing their noses at the Navajo neighbors). The Navajo, however, are not in Arizona: their reservation spans three states. So for them, it was either follow AZ and ignore DST, or follow the other two states and follow DST. Personally I think they should have followed AZ, but given that NM follows DST and much of their population lives on the NM side, it probably made economic sense to do that.
I left the US, renounced my citizenship, and settled in the Eastern Caribbean just so I could live under the sanity of AST and be rid of DST forever.....well that and the whole police state/fascist thing.
Good riddance, we won't miss you. We don't need losers like you who don't really love this... oh shit, I think a SWAT team just busted into my house, gotta go
> in fact the majority of work in the "real world" fundamentally depends on more than one person being in the same place at the same time
There's nothing stopping employers from changing their work hours with the seasons, and requiring all employees to conform to those hours. They don't need to the government to legislate it for them.
So because blue-collar employers are too stupid to move their working hours around with the seasons, the government needs to change the clock to suit them?
I have a better idea: I think the government should legislate that everyone needs to shift their clocks to be 12 hours offset from the current time. Then let's see if these idiotic employers still require everyone to work at night and sleep during the day. Maybe that'll break these employers from keeping the same hours all the time.
>In the winter it would be nice to have at least an hour of sunlight when you get home for snowblowing.
This is easy: go to work an hour earlier, and then go home an hour earlier. If your employer doesn't let you do this, then find a new job, or live with it. Asking the government to force everyone to change their clocks because your employer is an idiot is just asinine.
Not exactly true. The Navajo Nation within Arizona uses DST, because the reservation spans 3 states (the other two of which observe DST). Oddly, however, the Hopi have a reservation completely surrounded by the Navajo reservation, and they don't follow DST.
Of course, my last major employer has everything set to PST/PDT, since that's where their major data center is, even though they have rather large branches in every major timezones
If the voter records are public information (which seems odd to me actually, but let's assume this for now since TFS said so), then your lawsuit would be baseless. Taking publicly-available information, then releasing it to the public, can't damage you. The information is already public. It's when private information is released that you have grounds to file a lawsuit for damages.
Exactly. Biological life seems to need a certain amount of warmth; a rogue planet, which doesn't receive any heat from a parent star, is going to have a very cold surface, even if the interior is warm. Life as we know it wouldn't probably evolve on such a planet; it'd just be an ice world.
So this finding is interesting, but I don't see how it would affect the Drake Equation. If we want to find life that resembles us, we're probably only going to find it in star systems, on rocky planets within the star's habitable zone.
It doesn't take me any real time to grab my phone from my belt holster (I use a Seidio case with clip holster). It's slightly more time than looking at my wrist, sure, but not that much. Plus it's accurate (since the time is set by the network), and also lets me see at a glance if there's anything else that needs my attention, such as missed calls, voicemails, etc. It also tells me the local temperature at a glance.
Denmark isn't known for abusing its citizens with a prison-industrial complex the way the USA is. It's also known for being an expensive place to live, with a very high standard of living, just under its cousins Norway and Sweden.
Combine this with the fact that Denmark only has about 5 million citizens (compared to USA's 310M+), and I imagine there was no hyperbole there at all, assuming he meant within the Danish legal system in recent years.
BTW, as I remember it, Guadalupe actually had their own police force for a short time, but it was so corrupt the town disbanded it and went back to having the MCSO provide their police services. That's not the MCSO's fault.
I doubt it. Those places (like Guadalupe) are shitholes because they're poor. Places that are wealthy usually incorporate themselves into cities/towns, and hire their own police force instead of relying on the county police. And since they're wealthier, they can afford to spend more on policing. The county police aren't as well funded as city police, and worse, they have to cover a lot more ground since their jurisdiction is a bunch of separate zones all far away from each other.
What are you talking about? We had good 128-bit encryption back in the Clinton years; that's what the whole "weak vs strong" encryption issue was about (only 40-bit crypto was allowed to be exported).
>Don't imagine that a republican administration would be any more willing to let you keep your communication private. They might use different tactics, but secretly putting back doors in software is not really any better than a public campaign to install government backdoors in software.
I completely disagree. Doing something subversive that people don't like is better. Because then, when people inevitably and eventually find out, they get angry and do something about it. With the Democrat method, they actually convince people this crap is good for them.
If someone is going to screw me over, I'd rather them do it in a way that I don't know about it. There's nothing more annoying than someone screwing you over and gloating about it to your face.
You might think the latter is better because people will know about it sooner, but most voters are usually ridiculously naive, and will actually believe everything their party leadership tells them. When they find out they've been lied to, they get angry and demand change. But with the Democrats, they were never lied to.
Yes, I know Bush did a lot of spying, but that's different than encryption. Did any of Bush's honchos run around saying people shouldn't use encryption because the government needs to see it? Or pushing for laws banning the use of encryption, or trying to force everyone to have government-approved encryption chips with NSA backdoors built-in? Clinton did all of that, completely publicly, and now Obama's doing it.
Maybe I'm misremembering things, but I do remember "strong" (>40-bit) encryption being illegal to export during the Clinton years, and this finally being relaxed during the Bush years because it was so stupid and everyone outside the US already had it.
Yeah, Bush is evil and all, but I don't remember him being so obnoxiously paternalistic and publicly saying we should only be able to use computers with government backdoors; instead, he just did things behind everyone's backs.
I don't remember the Bush administration having much to say about encryption. I do remember Clinton trying to ban all non-escrowed encryption and put Clipper chips in everything, however.
Depends on the domain. Analog gauges are still popular
Sorry, you're right. I should have specified I'm really talking about cars here. For simple/low-cost applications, they still use analog mechanical gauges. For instance, the gauge on any air compressor is just a cheap mechanical gauge.
Also, mechanical gauges do tend to be very rugged. That's not a useful trait in a car, but for scuba gear it certainly is.
What did they expect? It was supposed to be the successor to the CRX and (first-gen) Insight, and was way worse than either of them. They should have made it out of aluminum, at the very least.
Even so, I really don't understand how it came out so bad. It's underpowered, but gets terrible gas mileage. I can go get a Mazda3 that's much bigger (4-door hatchback), and way more powerful (2.4L SkyActiv engine) and faster, and still get the same mpg (38). WTF? And the Mazda isn't even hybrid! It's just a gas engine, albeit with direct injection (which lots of cars these days have now). How did they manage to make a tiny little car with a tiny engine that's hybrid and still get such lousy mileage?
Also, I don't think the Prius is aluminum either. And it too is faster than the CR-Z while being much larger, and gets much better fuel economy. So aluminum might have helped a little, but not that much. It seems that Honda's engine tech is just plain obsolete now. Everyone else is doing much better even with steel frames (though there's more use of high-strength steel alloys these days).
There are plenty of cars now where an analogue speedometer isn't an option.
Have you been to a car dealership since the mid-1980s? I can't think of many cars which have digital speedometers only. Perhaps the Honda CR-Z, but that isn't exactly very popular (in fact, it's a flop; I'm surprised they still sell them). And even those cars still have analog tachometers (which is arguably much more important to be analog than the speedometer, because the tach changes so much faster).
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They don't. They don't need to, nor do they have a right to. Everyone needs to just pick whatever hours work best for them. Lots of employers already have more flexible working hours, because they've realized that not everyone absolutely needs to have the exact same hours; that's why so many companies have '"core hours". And with so much business being international, you're never going to get everyone on the same schedule anyway. Companies in California are not going to have the same hours as companies in New York, and neither of them will have the same hours as companies in China. So what exactly is the point? Obviously, employees need to come in to work when their employer requires, but there's nothing new about that. The idea that some factory needs to have the same hours as other businesses is just silly; they're likely getting shipments from far-flung timezones anyway, not from other companies one or two towns over like back in the 1800s. And retail business have to pick different hours anyway, in order to maximize their customer traffic, which is why so many retail stores stay open late and have weekend hours. You can't close your doors at 5PM and somehow expect consumers, who all work 9-5 jobs (or thereabouts), to somehow get to your store during those hours. A lot of stupid mom-and-pop shops never seem to understand that concept, but the big-box stores all do.
Perhaps, but the other issue is that the Hopi reservation is actually in Arizona, so it makes sense for them to just do what the rest of the state is doing (though a component of that may be thumbing their noses at the Navajo neighbors). The Navajo, however, are not in Arizona: their reservation spans three states. So for them, it was either follow AZ and ignore DST, or follow the other two states and follow DST. Personally I think they should have followed AZ, but given that NM follows DST and much of their population lives on the NM side, it probably made economic sense to do that.
I left the US, renounced my citizenship, and settled in the Eastern Caribbean just so I could live under the sanity of AST and be rid of DST forever.....well that and the whole police state/fascist thing.
Good riddance, we won't miss you. We don't need losers like you who don't really love this... oh shit, I think a SWAT team just busted into my house, gotta go
> in fact the majority of work in the "real world" fundamentally depends on more than one person being in the same place at the same time
There's nothing stopping employers from changing their work hours with the seasons, and requiring all employees to conform to those hours. They don't need to the government to legislate it for them.
So because blue-collar employers are too stupid to move their working hours around with the seasons, the government needs to change the clock to suit them?
I have a better idea: I think the government should legislate that everyone needs to shift their clocks to be 12 hours offset from the current time. Then let's see if these idiotic employers still require everyone to work at night and sleep during the day. Maybe that'll break these employers from keeping the same hours all the time.
>In the winter it would be nice to have at least an hour of sunlight when you get home for snowblowing.
This is easy: go to work an hour earlier, and then go home an hour earlier. If your employer doesn't let you do this, then find a new job, or live with it. Asking the government to force everyone to change their clocks because your employer is an idiot is just asinine.
Massachusetts disagrees with your 2-timezone idea: they're talking about moving from EST to the Atlantic timezone (GMT-4).
Not exactly true. The Navajo Nation within Arizona uses DST, because the reservation spans 3 states (the other two of which observe DST). Oddly, however, the Hopi have a reservation completely surrounded by the Navajo reservation, and they don't follow DST.
Of course, my last major employer has everything set to PST/PDT, since that's where their major data center is, even though they have rather large branches in every major timezones
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If the voter records are public information (which seems odd to me actually, but let's assume this for now since TFS said so), then your lawsuit would be baseless. Taking publicly-available information, then releasing it to the public, can't damage you. The information is already public. It's when private information is released that you have grounds to file a lawsuit for damages.
but we are already using "galaxy" to describe that, which is a pretty cool word.
It may sound cool to us English speakers, but it really just means "milky" in Greek.
Exactly. Biological life seems to need a certain amount of warmth; a rogue planet, which doesn't receive any heat from a parent star, is going to have a very cold surface, even if the interior is warm. Life as we know it wouldn't probably evolve on such a planet; it'd just be an ice world.
So this finding is interesting, but I don't see how it would affect the Drake Equation. If we want to find life that resembles us, we're probably only going to find it in star systems, on rocky planets within the star's habitable zone.
Take it off and give the strap a sniff. Turns out, you do need to take it off from time to time.
I haven't worn a watch in many years thanks to cellphones, but this is easily remedied with alcohol (assuming you have a metal band).
It doesn't take me any real time to grab my phone from my belt holster (I use a Seidio case with clip holster). It's slightly more time than looking at my wrist, sure, but not that much. Plus it's accurate (since the time is set by the network), and also lets me see at a glance if there's anything else that needs my attention, such as missed calls, voicemails, etc. It also tells me the local temperature at a glance.
Denmark isn't known for abusing its citizens with a prison-industrial complex the way the USA is. It's also known for being an expensive place to live, with a very high standard of living, just under its cousins Norway and Sweden.
Combine this with the fact that Denmark only has about 5 million citizens (compared to USA's 310M+), and I imagine there was no hyperbole there at all, assuming he meant within the Danish legal system in recent years.
BTW, as I remember it, Guadalupe actually had their own police force for a short time, but it was so corrupt the town disbanded it and went back to having the MCSO provide their police services. That's not the MCSO's fault.
I doubt it. Those places (like Guadalupe) are shitholes because they're poor. Places that are wealthy usually incorporate themselves into cities/towns, and hire their own police force instead of relying on the county police. And since they're wealthier, they can afford to spend more on policing. The county police aren't as well funded as city police, and worse, they have to cover a lot more ground since their jurisdiction is a bunch of separate zones all far away from each other.
What are you talking about? We had good 128-bit encryption back in the Clinton years; that's what the whole "weak vs strong" encryption issue was about (only 40-bit crypto was allowed to be exported).
>Don't imagine that a republican administration would be any more willing to let you keep your communication private. They might use different tactics, but secretly putting back doors in software is not really any better than a public campaign to install government backdoors in software.
I completely disagree. Doing something subversive that people don't like is better. Because then, when people inevitably and eventually find out, they get angry and do something about it. With the Democrat method, they actually convince people this crap is good for them.
If someone is going to screw me over, I'd rather them do it in a way that I don't know about it. There's nothing more annoying than someone screwing you over and gloating about it to your face.
You might think the latter is better because people will know about it sooner, but most voters are usually ridiculously naive, and will actually believe everything their party leadership tells them. When they find out they've been lied to, they get angry and demand change. But with the Democrats, they were never lied to.
Yes, I know Bush did a lot of spying, but that's different than encryption. Did any of Bush's honchos run around saying people shouldn't use encryption because the government needs to see it? Or pushing for laws banning the use of encryption, or trying to force everyone to have government-approved encryption chips with NSA backdoors built-in? Clinton did all of that, completely publicly, and now Obama's doing it.
Maybe I'm misremembering things, but I do remember "strong" (>40-bit) encryption being illegal to export during the Clinton years, and this finally being relaxed during the Bush years because it was so stupid and everyone outside the US already had it.
Yeah, Bush is evil and all, but I don't remember him being so obnoxiously paternalistic and publicly saying we should only be able to use computers with government backdoors; instead, he just did things behind everyone's backs.
I don't remember the Bush administration having much to say about encryption. I do remember Clinton trying to ban all non-escrowed encryption and put Clipper chips in everything, however.
No. That only works for horizontal centering
That's what I was talking about. I didn't realize you meant both vertically and horizontally.
Yes, it is rather lame.
Depends on the domain. Analog gauges are still popular
Sorry, you're right. I should have specified I'm really talking about cars here. For simple/low-cost applications, they still use analog mechanical gauges. For instance, the gauge on any air compressor is just a cheap mechanical gauge.
Also, mechanical gauges do tend to be very rugged. That's not a useful trait in a car, but for scuba gear it certainly is.
What did they expect? It was supposed to be the successor to the CRX and (first-gen) Insight, and was way worse than either of them. They should have made it out of aluminum, at the very least.
Even so, I really don't understand how it came out so bad. It's underpowered, but gets terrible gas mileage. I can go get a Mazda3 that's much bigger (4-door hatchback), and way more powerful (2.4L SkyActiv engine) and faster, and still get the same mpg (38). WTF? And the Mazda isn't even hybrid! It's just a gas engine, albeit with direct injection (which lots of cars these days have now). How did they manage to make a tiny little car with a tiny engine that's hybrid and still get such lousy mileage?
Also, I don't think the Prius is aluminum either. And it too is faster than the CR-Z while being much larger, and gets much better fuel economy. So aluminum might have helped a little, but not that much. It seems that Honda's engine tech is just plain obsolete now. Everyone else is doing much better even with steel frames (though there's more use of high-strength steel alloys these days).
There are plenty of cars now where an analogue speedometer isn't an option.
Have you been to a car dealership since the mid-1980s? I can't think of many cars which have digital speedometers only. Perhaps the Honda CR-Z, but that isn't exactly very popular (in fact, it's a flop; I'm surprised they still sell them). And even those cars still have analog tachometers (which is arguably much more important to be analog than the speedometer, because the tach changes so much faster).