Isn't $20 an hour better than no job at all? Or is there some reason the electricians can't work for that amount?
$20 an hour to climb up a potentially dangerous 300 foot tower? Yeah sounds like a great idea. The company that maintains the tower just doesn't want to shell out hazard pay. Instead they can bitch and moan about how "no Americans want to do the job, we have to bring in underpaid workers from 3rd world countries!"
Regardless if I have x or y social media account, I will respectfully and efficiently terminate any interview where social media contact is an issue
It is an issue, but one that does not need your potential employer to have access. They are within their rights to require that you not post company information. To that end they can regulate your social media. In my case that's through an NDA. Since my account is private, they have to take my word for it, but they seem to have the attitude of "if it's private then he won't be telling the world anyway, only his friends". -nB
Well, since you can just tell your friends proprietary information, does this mean you must record every interaction with any other human being or recording device and submit it to the company? No? Then you cant have access to my social media account either.
Except an employer doesn't need you. They just need someone. If it's a highly competitive position, they aren't going to give a shit if you walk out--they've got 100 other candidates to pick from, and only a handful might pull the same "I'm not sharing my Facebook info" routine.
If it is the case for you where any schmuck off the street can do your job (and would be willing)... you are in the wrong line of work.
I had one prospective employer ask if I had a FB account. "No. That's just too first grade for me."
Interesting reaction. He really wanted to ask something, but he kind of shut down in three of four steps and went on to something else.
No, I didn't take that job anyway. Other reasons. You can always out-wit the PHBs.
But did/do you have one?
I suppose I would answer with a question "Why do you want to know?" (Yeah I know this pisses a lot of interviewers off. I am not one of them, however, I want people to answer my interview questions with another question, it shows they are thinking.)
If they just wanted to use Facebook as an example for some scenario, I would answer differently than if someone someone wanted to mention their batshit insane policy.
Regardless if I have x or y social media account, I will respectfully and efficiently terminate any interview where social media contact is an issue. Regardless of the legality or ethics of snooping personal info, I just don't see myself working at a place where that level of pervasiveness is required. As an interviewee I actually ask about personnel policies. Most people do not even know about them until they read the employee handbook (well after they have accepted their offer and started work).
This is related to companies with the "we own anything you think about while you work here" policy. I worked at a place that got acquired and decided to change the agreement to including a "no side work" policy, and you cannot work in the "same industry within 100 miles any city we have an office (by the way we have an office within 100 miles of every city in your country)" policy. I just flatly refused to sign the new agreement, and informed my coworkers to do the same. The company allowed us to add a grandfather clause on this. And even then they tried suing a group of my friends that left for a competitor.
I lost track of where I was going with this, except that... "Fuck any company that tries to implement an overreaching employee policy. Especially if it is legal."
Publishers: "Aggregation is okay, but only if we control who's doing it!"
Be prepared for whatever useful features of this app to go away in the next few versions. Such as the ability to aggregate sources that are not controlled by Time Warner.
I'd rather have some kind of hybrid, like a titanium kneecap with this polymer connecting the end joints.
Dammit, if I'm going to get body parts replaced when I'm older I want to be able to knee someone in the head and have it sound like an aluminum bat hitting a soft ball. *tink!*
So the spectator sport of cybernetic combat will actually take the form of geriatric men brawling.
Hmmm, fact of the day -- a new word. Now to use it in a sentence with a random stranger. "Hey, is that a baculum in your pants or are you just glad to see me?"
If the US price were really hit that bad by petrol prices, you'd have rural petrol subsidies and/or inner-city petrol taxes to compensate.
How would that work? People will drive miles out of the way to find cheap prices, which would only exacerbate the problem by using more fuel needlessly. And remember, people are idiots that cannot do math.
There are polar bears in the Southern hemisphere and penguins in the northern hemisphere.
True, they're all in zoos... but they exist. Maybe there are polar bears in the South Pole national zoo. I wonder how long till penguins became extinct if someone released a breeding pair of polar bears in antartica.
"Compromise" cannot be a mode of thinking or you never end up with a bottom line. Some things, like nuclear war and avoiding environmental catastrophe, are optional decisions. We need to get them right because the consequences are real and will be absolute. If we define maturity as an intention to "compromise" on important issues, I want no part of maturity.
Spoken like one of our politicians (it matters not which party). Never compromise with the enemy, we are against everything they say! Filibuster, blockade, shut down the government! We can never even hint that the other side might have a valid point in this argument!
Now lets try it with compromise: You are right, some things can never be compromised on. But to say you must never compromise, or that every belief you hold is paramount is too extreme. Adults need to learn that they are not little children that must get their way no matter what or they will cry and take their ball and go home. I want no part of that immaturity.
Here you go. Also he never used a license plate. Supposedly it was due to some imagined loophole in the law. But I think it is clear that laws don't apply to everyone equally.
It's a lot easier to get "road tranced" in the dark. Road lighting help a lot avoiding people falling asleep at the wheel.
Are there any studies on this? Since people tend to be more tired at the end of the day and at night, more asleep at the wheel situations would happen at night regardless of lighting conditions.
In fact experiments are already taking place with LED streetlights, which are variable in output and last longer the more they are dimmed. There is a roundabout lit with them not far from where I live. Although the payback compared to conventional lights is about 8 years, that is pretty good for an infrastructure project as is getting better as costs fall.
Does the payback on them include electricity costs? I know in this area where they are replacing traffic lights with LED the payback is much shorter even without electricity costs factored in. It does, however factor in the savings in expense of changing the bulbs, which is significant.
The real fix, without rewriting the protocol, would be to bundle the keygen with the main download. No master ship for key requests.
Also their server based multiplayer games need to be compatible with the original versions using the original DRM system. They can make the single-player game fire up without any DRM, but when a (non-GOG version) server does a key auth, the GOG version of the game needs a key authenticate.
The Chinese are more aggressive when they catch your money mules.
One might think that with the amount of US currency that China owns, they would care if someone (other than themselves) was manipulating the dollar's value.
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There is no other energy source that can create problems on such scale in such a short time.
No, no other power source could possibly cause a disaster on this level.
Let me be perfectly clear on this... over a quarter of a million people died from a single incident.
Isn't $20 an hour better than no job at all? Or is there some reason the electricians can't work for that amount?
$20 an hour to climb up a potentially dangerous 300 foot tower? Yeah sounds like a great idea. The company that maintains the tower just doesn't want to shell out hazard pay. Instead they can bitch and moan about how "no Americans want to do the job, we have to bring in underpaid workers from 3rd world countries!"
Regardless if I have x or y social media account, I will respectfully and efficiently terminate any interview where social media contact is an issue
It is an issue, but one that does not need your potential employer to have access. They are within their rights to require that you not post company information. To that end they can regulate your social media. In my case that's through an NDA. Since my account is private, they have to take my word for it, but they seem to have the attitude of "if it's private then he won't be telling the world anyway, only his friends".
-nB
Well, since you can just tell your friends proprietary information, does this mean you must record every interaction with any other human being or recording device and submit it to the company? No? Then you cant have access to my social media account either.
How many orders of magnitude is 'a bit' in your world?
That would be one order of magnitude, in base 2.
Except an employer doesn't need you. They just need someone. If it's a highly competitive position, they aren't going to give a shit if you walk out--they've got 100 other candidates to pick from, and only a handful might pull the same "I'm not sharing my Facebook info" routine.
If it is the case for you where any schmuck off the street can do your job (and would be willing)... you are in the wrong line of work.
I had one prospective employer ask if I had a FB account. "No. That's just too first grade for me."
Interesting reaction. He really wanted to ask something, but he kind of shut down in three of four steps and went on to something else.
No, I didn't take that job anyway. Other reasons. You can always out-wit the PHBs.
But did/do you have one?
I suppose I would answer with a question "Why do you want to know?" (Yeah I know this pisses a lot of interviewers off. I am not one of them, however, I want people to answer my interview questions with another question, it shows they are thinking.)
If they just wanted to use Facebook as an example for some scenario, I would answer differently than if someone someone wanted to mention their batshit insane policy.
Regardless if I have x or y social media account, I will respectfully and efficiently terminate any interview where social media contact is an issue. Regardless of the legality or ethics of snooping personal info, I just don't see myself working at a place where that level of pervasiveness is required. As an interviewee I actually ask about personnel policies. Most people do not even know about them until they read the employee handbook (well after they have accepted their offer and started work).
This is related to companies with the "we own anything you think about while you work here" policy. I worked at a place that got acquired and decided to change the agreement to including a "no side work" policy, and you cannot work in the "same industry within 100 miles any city we have an office (by the way we have an office within 100 miles of every city in your country)" policy. I just flatly refused to sign the new agreement, and informed my coworkers to do the same. The company allowed us to add a grandfather clause on this. And even then they tried suing a group of my friends that left for a competitor.
I lost track of where I was going with this, except that... "Fuck any company that tries to implement an overreaching employee policy. Especially if it is legal."
What happened to the word "closed"?
It was shuttered.
Ahh, that makes sense now. I was wondering what Western Digital would be without its disk manufacturing capability. The next Creative Labs, I suppose.
Do you geeks ever stop crying about anything? If you already own it and find the service unsatisfying just don't use it.
(first world) Problem solved!
Right, because it is perfectly legal to make digital copies of your own media for personal use.
Wait, actually it IS legal, except companies like Warner Brothers have been trying to make it illegal via laws like DCMA.
Publishers: "Aggregation is okay, but only if we control who's doing it!"
Be prepared for whatever useful features of this app to go away in the next few versions. Such as the ability to aggregate sources that are not controlled by Time Warner.
Apparently auto-correct has taken to removing random vowels.
It's because your name spells vowel wrong.
I'd rather have some kind of hybrid, like a titanium kneecap with this polymer connecting the end joints.
Dammit, if I'm going to get body parts replaced when I'm older I want to be able to knee someone in the head and have it sound like an aluminum bat hitting a soft ball. *tink!*
So the spectator sport of cybernetic combat will actually take the form of geriatric men brawling.
I still think it will sell, though.
Hmmm, fact of the day -- a new word. Now to use it in a sentence with a random stranger. "Hey, is that a baculum in your pants or are you just glad to see me?"
The correct answer is... "both".
If the US price were really hit that bad by petrol prices, you'd have rural petrol subsidies and/or inner-city petrol taxes to compensate.
How would that work? People will drive miles out of the way to find cheap prices, which would only exacerbate the problem by using more fuel needlessly. And remember, people are idiots that cannot do math.
I will agree here. The upshot is that we get more weekdays than weekends.
Is that carbon neutral? Why haven't I seen cars that run on ego? It's some kind of government conspiracy to keep us dependent on oil. Roswell!
Ego produces harmful clouds of smug, a far worse pollutant than CO2.
There's an extra working day! Woohoo!
Actually there is more like 5/7 of a working day, right?
he is in the business of "pen-testing humans"
Is that not called "rape"? :)
There are polar bears in the Southern hemisphere and penguins in the northern hemisphere.
True, they're all in zoos... but they exist. Maybe there are polar bears in the South Pole national zoo. I wonder how long till penguins became extinct if someone released a breeding pair of polar bears in antartica.
There are zoos in Antarctica?
"Compromise" cannot be a mode of thinking or you never end up with a bottom line. Some things, like nuclear war and avoiding environmental catastrophe, are optional decisions. We need to get them right because the consequences are real and will be absolute. If we define maturity as an intention to "compromise" on important issues, I want no part of maturity.
Spoken like one of our politicians (it matters not which party). Never compromise with the enemy, we are against everything they say! Filibuster, blockade, shut down the government! We can never even hint that the other side might have a valid point in this argument!
Now lets try it with compromise:
You are right, some things can never be compromised on. But to say you must never compromise, or that every belief you hold is paramount is too extreme. Adults need to learn that they are not little children that must get their way no matter what or they will cry and take their ball and go home. I want no part of that immaturity.
Here you go. Also he never used a license plate. Supposedly it was due to some imagined loophole in the law. But I think it is clear that laws don't apply to everyone equally.
It's a lot easier to get "road tranced" in the dark. Road lighting help a lot avoiding people falling asleep at the wheel.
Are there any studies on this? Since people tend to be more tired at the end of the day and at night, more asleep at the wheel situations would happen at night regardless of lighting conditions.
In fact experiments are already taking place with LED streetlights, which are variable in output and last longer the more they are dimmed. There is a roundabout lit with them not far from where I live. Although the payback compared to conventional lights is about 8 years, that is pretty good for an infrastructure project as is getting better as costs fall.
Does the payback on them include electricity costs? I know in this area where they are replacing traffic lights with LED the payback is much shorter even without electricity costs factored in. It does, however factor in the savings in expense of changing the bulbs, which is significant.
It's still dependent on them.
The real fix, without rewriting the protocol, would be to bundle the keygen with the main download. No master ship for key requests.
Also their server based multiplayer games need to be compatible with the original versions using the original DRM system. They can make the single-player game fire up without any DRM, but when a (non-GOG version) server does a key auth, the GOG version of the game needs a key authenticate.
The Chinese are more aggressive when they catch your money mules.
One might think that with the amount of US currency that China owns, they would care if someone (other than themselves) was manipulating the dollar's value.