In some states, such a slam is called "libel per se," where if they cannot prove the statement to be true, the libel is assumed, as are the damages. So I agree.
If it were me, I'd pay for an attorney consult, and see what the settlement angle & probability were likely to be. A fair bet that the 3rd party vendor has insurance, and the insurers attorney's will likely be able to spot a loser when they see it. Labelling an employee a "risk" is a very disengenous way of slamming them... I don't approve at all.
...why only the ignorant and the pro-hydrogen crowd claim it's safe.
Gasoline vapors are considerably more inflammable than hydrogen. Of course hydrogen is inflammable. But you're missing the point, and, apparently, are also amongst the ranks of the "ignorant".
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[hydrogen]... is still more dangerous than gasoline.
I don't believe this statement is factual. Source, please.
This information is a little outdated. I don't believe BBN currently has 3 anymore (at least 1 went to Planet, I think), and our company name is no longer "Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.," and hasn't been for quite some time (years now). So someone's accounting is inaccurate.
Think of it this way: if you were going to set up one world government, would you set it up so that resolutions could be vetoed by any single member of the Security Council?
Think of it this way; if three-fourths of the world's poorest nations set voted to redistribute all the wealth from the wealthiest nations to themselves...
Why is it going to get worse? Because the dollar is softening (some say it's being softened intentionally). This increases the appeal of a US export. Alas, with services, when you "export" them, this sends the job itself overseas. Which, as one may have noticed, isn't that great an idea in which the fastest growing segment of jobs in the US has been service jobs over the last decade.
Well, to be clear, in some states of the US, saying something bad about someone's employment history is libellous "per se". What this means is that if the claim is made, it is considered to be both libelous and damaging, by default. The burden of proving the truth goes upon the person making the claim. Hence, one makes no such claims without having quite a deal of evidence at hand; further, one might want to avoid the entanglements.
If other law applies, I don't know about it. But it may.
California (where I am) has some of the most worker-protective laws in the country.
Be sure. Water cooler chatter doesn't count. "Misappropriation of company resources to fulfill an illegal purpose" doesn't require that it be a matter of official company policy for the behavior to be grounds for termination.
They are limited to what they can say, they can't give a reference to...
Many employers will avoid comment on the grounds that it prevents future entanglements. Is there a federal statute you are thinking of, or a state one?
Copyrights don't expire through nonenforcement, but there is still a concept called laches,... ---- My understanding of this was that the impact was that you could still C&D them, but only to stop future violation.
Especially considering that the employer is liable for damages. This kind of behavior is a terminatable offense -- the bad kind of "terminate," as in "fired," as in when they check your references they say "yes, we fired him." Bad news, doooood.
Have you even read the Communist Manifesto? If someone comes to take my house away from me in order to achieve their political agenda, they're going to meet me at the end of a barrel. Sorry you feel the way you do, but any political movement which is intrinsically based around confiscating real property from its owners is likely to generate a violent response. Or were you simply unaware that was a part of the ideological basis of communism???
Thats not necessarily a bad thing... Linux is based on socialist concepts.
Even I, who categorize myself into the category of people that believe that most communists should probably be summarily shot, acknowledge that free software is actually a working example of functioning and effective socialism. Really. This sort of thing is good for you.:)
...where they ask for 4-5 years experience with C# or.NET Framework...
The typical HR mistranslation. Retranslate: 4-5 years technical experience, plus fluency in C# and.NET. That's typically what most of these things mean. It's just an issue of the HR people being technically clueless. Pay it no mind.
You certainly don't have to be prospering to reproduce.
No, of course you don't. This is why middle classes shrink.
But what I meant was that your implication that welfare is somehow desirable is preposperous. Those who live off of it are at the bottom rung of society, and have every incentive to move forward. Furthermore, you have no demographic at your fingertips which shows that these are large numbers of people, because they are not. Most of the "welfare is bad" drumbeaters don't even realize what portion of the federal budget it is. Do you? Look it up! It's teeny.
Simple natural selection now means that our populations are becoming geared towards those who consume handouts but produce no new discoveries.... Start to think about memes reproducing, rather than people, and you will begin to understand.... I do understand memes, but if you intend to imply their presence with the use of the phrase "natural selection" in a sentence without reference to them, you will be misunderstood about 100% of the time.
As for your implied suggestion that people who are on welfare really are prospering, I find this to be preposterous. Welfare, of the sort that you imagine, is nowhere near as wide spread as you suggest.
For what it's worth, modern linguists consider phonetic systems of representation to be the most modern and advanced forms of written language. And yes, such a system *is* superior to the quasi-phonetics of modern English, where spellings relate to sounds sometimes in a fashion that is no better than willy-nilly.
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p.s. phonetic systems aren't perfect: you will not be able to represent sounds from some languages without inventing new symbols. The superset of all sounds used in all languages on the planet is quite a bit larger than you might first think.
In a society that rewards exploration and scientific discovery, people work hard to explore and discover.
Such people have never really bred prolifically, however. So I can't fathom how you believe that this is connected with evolution in any significant way.
Now that you've made me think about it, it's the recent law that does away with implicit entry into public domain, yes. Now if I could only figure out a way to mod my own post, -1 Think First Before You Post.:)
[1]I am not a constitutional lawyer, but I believe it's also a law or at least a convention that state governments abide by the principles set forth in the US constitution.
Whether or not constitutional scholarship has anything to say about it, the states now abide by the constitution as a matter of practical jurisprudence for *many* things. In this sense, what is now law is *case law*.
I would imagine that SCO's claim as to the unconstitutionality of the GPL is that it doesn't have anyone holding the reins, while the Constitution's language implies some kind of actual, physical copyright holder.
Misconception. The GPL is based on copyright, and therefore also a definite copyright holder. Any other contributor has *secondary* rights to the initial copyright holder under terms of "derivative works," as spelled out in federal copyright law.
No, it either leaves work under the GPL protected by basic copyrights, or in the public domain.
This goes against a couple centuries of copyright law interpretation which is firmly *against* entry of any copyrighted work into the public domain without the express indication thereof by its author. This just isn't going to happen.
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In some states, such a slam is called "libel per se," where if they cannot prove the statement to be true, the libel is assumed, as are the damages. So I agree.
If it were me, I'd pay for an attorney consult, and see what the settlement angle & probability were likely to be. A fair bet that the 3rd party vendor has insurance, and the insurers attorney's will likely be able to spot a loser when they see it. Labelling an employee a "risk" is a very disengenous way of slamming them... I don't approve at all.
So yes, sue.
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...why only the ignorant and the pro-hydrogen crowd claim it's safe.
Gasoline vapors are considerably more inflammable than hydrogen. Of course hydrogen is inflammable. But you're missing the point, and, apparently, are also amongst the ranks of the "ignorant".
C//
[hydrogen] ... is still more dangerous than gasoline.
I don't believe this statement is factual. Source, please.
C//
This information is a little outdated. I don't believe BBN currently has 3 anymore (at least 1 went to Planet, I think), and our company name is no longer "Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.," and hasn't been for quite some time (years now). So someone's accounting is inaccurate.
C//
Think of it this way: if you were going to set up one world government, would you set it up so that resolutions could be vetoed by any single member of the Security Council?
Think of it this way; if three-fourths of the world's poorest nations set voted to redistribute all the wealth from the wealthiest nations to themselves...
Any discussion of steganography is incomplete without this:
http://www.mcdonald.org.uk/StegFS/
Why is it going to get worse? Because the dollar is softening (some say it's being softened intentionally). This increases the appeal of a US export. Alas, with services, when you "export" them, this sends the job itself overseas. Which, as one may have noticed, isn't that great an idea in which the fastest growing segment of jobs in the US has been service jobs over the last decade.
C//
Well, to be clear, in some states of the US, saying something bad about someone's employment history is libellous "per se". What this means is that if the claim is made, it is considered to be both libelous and damaging, by default. The burden of proving the truth goes upon the person making the claim. Hence, one makes no such claims without having quite a deal of evidence at hand; further, one might want to avoid the entanglements.
If other law applies, I don't know about it. But it may.
California (where I am) has some of the most worker-protective laws in the country.
C//
Maybe yours hold that view---mine doesn't.
Be sure. Water cooler chatter doesn't count. "Misappropriation of company resources to fulfill an illegal purpose" doesn't require that it be a matter of official company policy for the behavior to be grounds for termination.
C//
They are limited to what they can say, they can't give a reference to...
Many employers will avoid comment on the grounds that it prevents future entanglements. Is there a federal statute you are thinking of, or a state one?
C//
Copyrights don't expire through nonenforcement, but there is still a concept called laches, ...
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My understanding of this was that the impact was that you could still C&D them, but only to stop future violation.
C//
Especially considering that the employer is liable for damages. This kind of behavior is a terminatable offense -- the bad kind of "terminate," as in "fired," as in when they check your references they say "yes, we fired him." Bad news, doooood.
C//
The words you are looking for are "death throe". Not a flame. Just anally retentive information. :)
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Have you even read the Communist Manifesto? If someone comes to take my house away from me in order to achieve their political agenda, they're going to meet me at the end of a barrel. Sorry you feel the way you do, but any political movement which is intrinsically based around confiscating real property from its owners is likely to generate a violent response. Or were you simply unaware that was a part of the ideological basis of communism???
C//
Thats not necessarily a bad thing... Linux is based on socialist concepts.
:)
Even I, who categorize myself into the category of people that believe that most communists should probably be summarily shot, acknowledge that free software is actually a working example of functioning and effective socialism. Really. This sort of thing is good for you.
C//
...where they ask for 4-5 years experience with C# or .NET Framework...
.NET. That's typically what most of these things mean. It's just an issue of the HR people being technically clueless. Pay it no mind.
The typical HR mistranslation. Retranslate: 4-5 years technical experience, plus fluency in C# and
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This is a test; this is only a test; if this were actual text, it would have contained content explaining where to go and what to do. Beeeeeeeep.
You certainly don't have to be prospering to reproduce.
No, of course you don't. This is why middle classes shrink.
But what I meant was that your implication that welfare is somehow desirable is preposperous. Those who live off of it are at the bottom rung of society, and have every incentive to move forward. Furthermore, you have no demographic at your fingertips which shows that these are large numbers of people, because they are not. Most of the "welfare is bad" drumbeaters don't even realize what portion of the federal budget it is. Do you? Look it up! It's teeny.
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Simple natural selection now means that our populations are becoming geared towards those who consume handouts but produce no new discoveries. ... ...
Start to think about memes reproducing, rather than people, and you will begin to understand.
I do understand memes, but if you intend to imply their presence with the use of the phrase "natural selection" in a sentence without reference to them, you will be misunderstood about 100% of the time.
As for your implied suggestion that people who are on welfare really are prospering, I find this to be preposterous. Welfare, of the sort that you imagine, is nowhere near as wide spread as you suggest.
C//
For what it's worth, modern linguists consider phonetic systems of representation to be the most modern and advanced forms of written language. And yes, such a system *is* superior to the quasi-phonetics of modern English, where spellings relate to sounds sometimes in a fashion that is no better than willy-nilly.
C//
p.s. phonetic systems aren't perfect: you will not be able to represent sounds from some languages without inventing new symbols. The superset of all sounds used in all languages on the planet is quite a bit larger than you might first think.
In a society that rewards exploration and scientific discovery, people work hard to explore and discover.
Such people have never really bred prolifically, however. So I can't fathom how you believe that this is connected with evolution in any significant way.
C//
Now that you've made me think about it, it's the recent law that does away with implicit entry into public domain, yes. Now if I could only figure out a way to mod my own post, -1 Think First Before You Post. :)
C//
[1]I am not a constitutional lawyer, but I believe it's also a law or at least a convention that state governments abide by the principles set forth in the US constitution.
Whether or not constitutional scholarship has anything to say about it, the states now abide by the constitution as a matter of practical jurisprudence for *many* things. In this sense, what is now law is *case law*.
C//
I would imagine that SCO's claim as to the unconstitutionality of the GPL is that it doesn't have anyone holding the reins, while the Constitution's language implies some kind of actual, physical copyright holder.
Misconception. The GPL is based on copyright, and therefore also a definite copyright holder. Any other contributor has *secondary* rights to the initial copyright holder under terms of "derivative works," as spelled out in federal copyright law.
C//
No, it either leaves work under the GPL protected by basic copyrights, or in the public domain.
This goes against a couple centuries of copyright law interpretation which is firmly *against* entry of any copyrighted work into the public domain without the express indication thereof by its author. This just isn't going to happen.
C//