Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
One facet to that... If you're in an "at will" state and they actually give you a reason (they don't have to), it has to actually be a legitimate reason.
They can't lie. They can't make something up. They can't be noticably discriminatory.
But all they do have to say is "you are fired", and if that's all they say, then there isn't much that can be done.
Actually, later in the book it was discovered that each of the six dimensions was a space-time dimension, and that any three of the six could act as spacial dimensions and any one of the remaining three could act as a time dimension.
Or depending on your method of selection, any one of the six acting as a time dimension, and any three of the remaining 5 acting as space dimensions.
Order of selection, in this case, is not important.
I clearly remember being called to help a friend with a spyware/malware problem, discoverng he had ME, and going out to buy a copy of XP to replace it.
I'd also say it proves you're an idiot, but we'd have to culture you in isolation as part of the process, and I don't think we can get funding for that.
Seriously, if this thing really is an MECO then what are all of the things that we've thought were black holes?
Probably MECOs.
Because it's 3 AM, and I don't have the energy to reproduce all the math, there's two main theories about super-massive objects (simplifying a lot).
One: Black holes. You've got an event horizon. Anything passes that point is gone forever. And they don't have magnetic fields. (remember, simplified massively)
Two: MECOs. No event horizon, instead the matter pulled in is spun for a while then ejected at near lightspeed. They do have magnetic fields.
Everything we know about black hole candidates falls into one of two sets of mutally exclusive equations (in large part to the magnetic field thing).
That this object appears to have a magnetic field supports one set of Einsteinian equations; the one that supports MECOs.
Government folks (non-contracted) abhor responsibility and accountability.
Not really.
It's just that by various laws, we (government employees) can't take that responsibility.
Take your average government contract. Of the government side people working on the contract or with the contracted group, a very small subset of them are actually authorized and allowed to make changes no matter how much sense there may be to make those changes. The average government employee may be held liable for a stop work order or a contract change, when they don't have the authority to make it. So yeah, there is some passing of the buck in that regard.
And yeah, there are idiots like you describe who pull a 4 hour day and fill out a time card for 8 hours. But I saw the same thing in the private sector, and worse. At least government side, the people I work with know what we have, so they don't end up ordering a bunch of stuff that walks out the door as soon as it gets shipped in.
But, at least in my small part of the government world, we come in when the job demands. If that means working over holidays, pulling a 24 hour day or more, or whatever is needed to make the fleet go, then we do it.
For one thing, police helicopters are loud and obvious.
You don't live in Los Angeles, do you?
Trust me, in 99% of this town, unless it's flying fairly low (and they don't need to), you aren't going to notice a helicopter overhead watching you.
Now, you might notice it if you are far enough away to see it, and even then, the first assumption, unless it's actually shining a spotlight on something, is that it's a traffic copter. Los Angelenos don't give them a second thought.
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If it was part of a Military Specification (or MilSpec), then the contractor had to follow it regardless of whether it was in the contract or not.
However, if it was Military Standard instead, then the contractor doesn't have to follow them, even if the Standard is referenced in the contract. Only if the applicable part of the Standard is put into the contract without reference, thereby making it a contract term, is the contracted entity required to follow it.
I realize that may be confusing, so I'll give an example.
If the contract references MilSpec 2020.1, then it is the contractor's job to look up that Spec and make sure they follow it.
If the contract references MilStandard 1043.7, then the contractor doesn't have to look it up or follow it, thought they can.
If the contract instead takes the text out of MilStandard 1043.7 and puts it into the contract, without reference to it as a MilStandard or with the copied text referring to another MilStandard, then the contracted entity has to follow it as it is a contract term.
And given the reliance on 20 year old legacy standards in this, it also sounds like the Contracting Officer and Program Officer (CO and PO respectively) didn't consider JTIC interoperability requirements as part of this.
Shit, that's twice in one week my Systems Acquisitions classes have been useful. Just not at work.
When a military branch funds any program, especially an ACAT I, ACAT II, or ACAT IA program, it has to decide what data rights it needs.
The data rights it is allowed by law to purchase depends, in large part, on how the program was funded.
For Unlimited Rights, the government must have funded the entire development effort of the item, and then they can do whatever they want with it, including give it to other contributing nations.
Under Limited Rights, where the contractor has funded the effort entirely, the Government is prohibited from sharing the information with anyone outside the US Government.
With Restricted Rights, which are similar to Limited Rights, the software may have even further restrictions, such as a limited number of systems it may be installed on.
And finally, there is Government Purpose Rights, which happens when the contracted firm and the Government have jointed funded the development of a program. Under this data rights type, the Government is allowed to use the technical data for Government purposes as described in limited rights and for other purposes such as competition, but not for commercial applications. Government purpose rights are automatically effective for five years and revert to Unlimited Rights upon expiration of the five-year period.
There have been multiple programs where the wrong type of rights were purchased, sometimes because the contract was written badly, sometimes because there were mistakes made about what rights were needed.
This article doesn't go into that kind of depth, so it may be a case where the lead contracting authority (Again, the article doesn't go into who that is. It could be the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines) messed up, or it could be JITC issue.
Yes, I work for the government these days. Can't you tell?
A judge can set aside a guilty verdict, if he believes the jury has not made their determination based on the facts; however, he cannot set aside a not-guilty verdict.
Ok, maybe he could, but it would be appealled so quickly his head would spin, and he'd probably lose his position on the bench.
Brain: Defend ourselves against Jack Thompson, and then try to take over the world.
Pinky: Do we have enough time for both?
Brain: Pinky, even you, with your severe mental and social limitations, could defeat Thompson in less than an hour. Together, especially if you keep quiet, it will be five minutes, tops. Then we will take over the world, via my latest mod for GTA.
Specifically, playing a game is upheld by precident not to be a copyright violation.
There are also trademark exceptions. The key one here is nominative use. It allows me to use a trademarked term in reference to the actual item. (I.e., the same way that Subway can reference a Big Mac in their commercials.)
So running a game is allowed. Using the terms is allowed.
And don't get me started on the laches issue here.
The Camarilla membership offers, in theory, good benefits to those who want them, but a lot of the indy LARPs neither need, nor want a Big Brother WW telling them how to run their games, especially when many of those LARPs allow under 18 people to play, which the Camarilla does not.
Even to those in the Camarilla, the benefits aren't as great as you may think.
The character database, in either version, is slow, clunky, and hard to work with.
The e-zine is regularly late (there used to be a print magazine, but that went the way of the dodo when WW took over).
WW provided plots have generally been of lower quality, and had to be heavily modified to fit into the continuity that we had.
All in all, I can understand why the indy LARPs, and especially a crew like OWbN wouldn't want these 'benefits'.
Yeah, many of the indy-con based LARPS have to, to cover printing costs, props, and sometimes (but not always) a fee to the convention for space.
It usually isn't a large fee, but I have seen convention games, usually for charity, which were targetted towards 'high-end' or experienced players, where $5 got you into the game, and each additional dollar got you 10 additional XP on your character.
I've seen people drop $50 on one of these games to play the uber-godlike vampire with all the cool powers.
Of course, they still couldn't RP their way out of a brown paper bag, but that's a different issue.
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Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
The mutant space scorpions will have to have something to play, while they wait for re-entry.
One facet to that... If you're in an "at will" state and they actually give you a reason (they don't have to), it has to actually be a legitimate reason.
They can't lie.
They can't make something up.
They can't be noticably discriminatory.
But all they do have to say is "you are fired", and if that's all they say, then there isn't much that can be done.
Actually, later in the book it was discovered that each of the six dimensions was a space-time dimension, and that any three of the six could act as spacial dimensions and any one of the remaining three could act as a time dimension.
Or depending on your method of selection, any one of the six acting as a time dimension, and any three of the remaining 5 acting as space dimensions.
Order of selection, in this case, is not important.
With that OS protected space in Windows ME?
I clearly remember being called to help a friend with a spyware/malware problem, discoverng he had ME, and going out to buy a copy of XP to replace it.
At least some computers (such as mine) have issues with ripping it.
And my car CD player doesn't like the CD/DVD - there's potential jamming issues with the DualDiss format.
My black leather wallet. It pisses off all my vegan friends.
A nice sort of vengence for them always serving me rabbit food.
Koch's Postulates and other proof
Short version, HIV causes AIDS.
I'd also say it proves you're an idiot, but we'd have to culture you in isolation as part of the process, and I don't think we can get funding for that.
Seriously, if this thing really is an MECO then what are all of the things that we've thought were black holes?
Probably MECOs.
Because it's 3 AM, and I don't have the energy to reproduce all the math, there's two main theories about super-massive objects (simplifying a lot).
One: Black holes. You've got an event horizon. Anything passes that point is gone forever. And they don't have magnetic fields. (remember, simplified massively)
Two: MECOs. No event horizon, instead the matter pulled in is spun for a while then ejected at near lightspeed. They do have magnetic fields.
Everything we know about black hole candidates falls into one of two sets of mutally exclusive equations (in large part to the magnetic field thing).
That this object appears to have a magnetic field supports one set of Einsteinian equations; the one that supports MECOs.
Government folks (non-contracted) abhor responsibility and accountability.
Not really.
It's just that by various laws, we (government employees) can't take that responsibility.
Take your average government contract. Of the government side people working on the contract or with the contracted group, a very small subset of them are actually authorized and allowed to make changes no matter how much sense there may be to make those changes. The average government employee may be held liable for a stop work order or a contract change, when they don't have the authority to make it. So yeah, there is some passing of the buck in that regard.
And yeah, there are idiots like you describe who pull a 4 hour day and fill out a time card for 8 hours. But I saw the same thing in the private sector, and worse. At least government side, the people I work with know what we have, so they don't end up ordering a bunch of stuff that walks out the door as soon as it gets shipped in.
But, at least in my small part of the government world, we come in when the job demands. If that means working over holidays, pulling a 24 hour day or more, or whatever is needed to make the fleet go, then we do it.
For one thing, police helicopters are loud and obvious.
You don't live in Los Angeles, do you?
Trust me, in 99% of this town, unless it's flying fairly low (and they don't need to), you aren't going to notice a helicopter overhead watching you.
Now, you might notice it if you are far enough away to see it, and even then, the first assumption, unless it's actually shining a spotlight on something, is that it's a traffic copter. Los Angelenos don't give them a second thought.
I think they should track pedophiles any way feasable.
I'm not so much on the guest / immigrant worker part of this, but chipping a pedophile isn't anywhere close to the same catagory.
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Depends.
If it was part of a Military Specification (or MilSpec), then the contractor had to follow it regardless of whether it was in the contract or not.
However, if it was Military Standard instead, then the contractor doesn't have to follow them, even if the Standard is referenced in the contract. Only if the applicable part of the Standard is put into the contract without reference, thereby making it a contract term, is the contracted entity required to follow it.
I realize that may be confusing, so I'll give an example.
If the contract references MilSpec 2020.1, then it is the contractor's job to look up that Spec and make sure they follow it.
If the contract references MilStandard 1043.7, then the contractor doesn't have to look it up or follow it, thought they can.
If the contract instead takes the text out of MilStandard 1043.7 and puts it into the contract, without reference to it as a MilStandard or with the copied text referring to another MilStandard, then the contracted entity has to follow it as it is a contract term.
And given the reliance on 20 year old legacy standards in this, it also sounds like the Contracting Officer and Program Officer (CO and PO respectively) didn't consider JTIC interoperability requirements as part of this.
Shit, that's twice in one week my Systems Acquisitions classes have been useful. Just not at work.
ACQ 201-A here. God, it's dull. But I need it for that magic GS-11.
It may in fact be reasonable.
When a military branch funds any program, especially an ACAT I, ACAT II, or ACAT IA program, it has to decide what data rights it needs.
The data rights it is allowed by law to purchase depends, in large part, on how the program was funded.
For Unlimited Rights, the government must have funded the entire development effort of the item, and then they can do whatever they want with it, including give it to other contributing nations.
Under Limited Rights, where the contractor has funded the effort entirely, the Government is prohibited from sharing the information with anyone outside the US Government.
With Restricted Rights, which are similar to Limited Rights, the software may have even further restrictions, such as a limited number of systems it may be installed on.
And finally, there is Government Purpose Rights, which happens when the contracted firm and the Government have jointed funded the development of a program. Under this data rights type, the Government is allowed to use the technical data for Government purposes as described in limited rights and for other purposes such as competition, but not for commercial applications. Government purpose rights are automatically effective for five years and revert to Unlimited Rights upon expiration of the five-year period.
There have been multiple programs where the wrong type of rights were purchased, sometimes because the contract was written badly, sometimes because there were mistakes made about what rights were needed.
This article doesn't go into that kind of depth, so it may be a case where the lead contracting authority (Again, the article doesn't go into who that is. It could be the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines) messed up, or it could be JITC issue.
Yes, I work for the government these days. Can't you tell?
The difference is, McCarthy was right.
Check out the Verona Project records if you don't believe me. Many of the people he questioned or wanted to question actually were Soviet agents.
I believe he meant that a brand new 5 gallon container was $12.
The refill station is 25 cents a gallon, and thus 1.25 for a complete refill.
And if he's in SoCal, that's about right.
Not quite.
A judge can set aside a guilty verdict, if he believes the jury has not made their determination based on the facts; however, he cannot set aside a not-guilty verdict.
Ok, maybe he could, but it would be appealled so quickly his head would spin, and he'd probably lose his position on the bench.
Pinky: What are we going to do tonight, Brain?
Brain: Defend ourselves against Jack Thompson, and then try to take over the world.
Pinky: Do we have enough time for both?
Brain: Pinky, even you, with your severe mental and social limitations, could defeat Thompson in less than an hour. Together, especially if you keep quiet, it will be five minutes, tops. Then we will take over the world, via my latest mod for GTA.
That comparison is highly unfair.... to the chimpanzee.
There are copyright exceptions.
Specifically, playing a game is upheld by precident not to be a copyright violation.
There are also trademark exceptions. The key one here is nominative use. It allows me to use a trademarked term in reference to the actual item.
(I.e., the same way that Subway can reference a Big Mac in their commercials.)
So running a game is allowed. Using the terms is allowed.
And don't get me started on the laches issue here.
The Camarilla membership offers, in theory, good benefits to those who want them, but a lot of the indy LARPs neither need, nor want a Big Brother WW telling them how to run their games, especially when many of those LARPs allow under 18 people to play, which the Camarilla does not.
Even to those in the Camarilla, the benefits aren't as great as you may think.
The character database, in either version, is slow, clunky, and hard to work with.
The e-zine is regularly late (there used to be a print magazine, but that went the way of the dodo when WW took over).
WW provided plots have generally been of lower quality, and had to be heavily modified to fit into the continuity that we had.
All in all, I can understand why the indy LARPs, and especially a crew like OWbN wouldn't want these 'benefits'.
Yeah, many of the indy-con based LARPS have to, to cover printing costs, props, and sometimes (but not always) a fee to the convention for space.
It usually isn't a large fee, but I have seen convention games, usually for charity, which were targetted towards 'high-end' or experienced players, where $5 got you into the game, and each additional dollar got you 10 additional XP on your character.
I've seen people drop $50 on one of these games to play the uber-godlike vampire with all the cool powers.
Of course, they still couldn't RP their way out of a brown paper bag, but that's a different issue.
Convention games are excluded if they don't charge anything in addition to the convention fee.
So convention based TT games are exempt.
Convention based TT charity games (which usually charge $2-$5+ extra for the charity) are not exempt.
Most convention LARPs, which charge a fee for their game on top of the convention entry fee, are not exempt.