If I can fire someone for standing on a soapbox and supporting a party I don't like then can I fire someone for not standing on a soapbox in his "free time" and supporting the party I like?
Sure, and then that person can stand on his soapbox and tell everyone that you're a shitty employer who forces people to profess their love for [insert party here] and spend X hours of uncompensated time a week spreading that love as a condition for employment.
Of course, I think half of the people posting in this thread about how employees shouldn't expect to be able to do whatever they want during their unpaid time would immediately start screaming for their lawyer as soon as one of their ex-employees started exercising that right once they're no longer paid at all.
With encrypted LVM solutions things can get all kinds of hairy though.
LUKS (cryptsetup) actually has a mechanism for adding multiple keys, though if you let the user log in as root, they'd just change those keys too. Or hell, dd/dev/urandom over the whole thing.
But if they really wanted to screw the company over, why bother with all that when they can just "lose" the laptop on a business trip?
Pretty much. What's stopping the solar lobby from buying their own damn land and building whatever they want there (other than the obvious promise of cheap/free government land)?
why do I need to pay extra for health insurance lately? Because doctors are being sued into oblivion.
Except in Texas (and a number of other states).
http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/05/18/tort-reform-is-healthcare-reform/ talks about how awesome Texas reform has been, and that doctors here pay 35% less in premiums now than they did before. The funny thing is, searching for tort reform in Texas brings up a lot of what you've said (everything is expensive because of lawsuits) and not much followup (tort reform has made everything cheaper).
So, given that several states have reformed, and given the fact that you cannot currently shop for health insurance across state lines (which implies -to me at least- that the cost of insurance is mostly related to the conditions within the state), can you show that health care is cheaper in a reformed state than a non-reformed state?
If all property were privately-owned, it would be much more difficult for you to pollute without facing consequences from your neighbors.
Yeaaaaah... no.
What about all the pollution out there that lands on property that is privately-owned? I guess they're just too lazy to look at the little "From:" tags tied to the benzene rings or bits of soot to try and sue the corporations that released them.
Outsourcing in general is caused by the minimum wage.
Maybe if we were talking about outsourcing at McDonalds? Last I checked, IT jobs are largely salaried positions, not an hourly wage one. Not only that, but they are largely exempt from overtime pay rules.
barriers to productivity our total refining capacity
Maybe if companies like BP Amoco could spend some of their capital to keep their refineries from exploding, we might have more refinery capacity. If the companies can't be bothered WITH government regulation, you think they're going to do better without?
This cannot be immaterial, as it is the point of the parable.
Perhaps so, but as oil prices continue to increase, the damage would be done whether or not production moved anywhere. Leaping out and screaming "omg! broken window!" is wailing at the wind and achieves nothing at all.
The union's greatest trick was to convince people that they can't bargain collectively without paying the union boss their dues.
Generally speaking, the states where this is "not allowed" is what the Big Unions call states where they're not allowed to take money from non-members' paychecks, making them not as profitable to operate in.
They could practically sue DuPont out of existence if that happened.
Only if they could prove that it was DuPont that did the damage, and not one of the hundreds of other companies throwing their chemicals in the water, or homeowners pouring their oil into the storm drains, or farmers washing their fertilizers into the rivers, or...
It might almost work in an ideal world with an ideal legal system, but in ours, they'd simply insist they didn't throw anything in the water and it wasn't carcinogenic, and the fact that you've got 50 different tumors is the fault of everyone else. And that's assuming you were able to catch them in the first place, since without the power of government to trespass on their property, you wouldn't be able to see what they were dumping that was running into yours.
The problem is not with the companies, but with the politicians willing to accept the bribes. That is where to place the blame.
So if I want someone dead, all I have to do is keep offering people money until they do it, and it's not my fault that someone eventually takes the money? Is it that hard to recognize that both those that demand and those that supply are at fault?
Part of the problem is that the deal is just now coming to light, but the mortgage was signed back in 2003, when hot and cold mortgages were flowing cheap from the tap, not that a lot of people can remember back that far.
The bigger question is, when does his intro rate reset, and what did it reset to, compared to everyone else who got a loan back then?
refinanced the mortgages on his homes in 2003 after shopping for the best deal. Ultimately, he obtained a five-year adjustable rate loan at 4.25 percent for his house in Washington and a 10-year adjustable rate loan at 4.5 percent for his house in East Haddam, Conn.
Hang it underhand, and people can scrape the paint from behind the sheet with their finger nails by accident.
Not to mention tall people, who can't see the end of the sheet making a huge pile on the floor while looking down at the roll, turning it and looking for the end.
Anyone putting "liquid sodium" and "safe" in the same sentence seriously needs to read a book on basic chemistry.
Works for me, as long as you keep water out of it, and it out of water. Since the temperature is below sodium's boiling point, the coolant loop isn't under pressure, unlike the water loops that must be pressurized to keep the water from boiling.
what substances does demineralized water... corrode ?
Everything? How do you think the minerals got in there in the first place? To be fair, not all of it is from the chemical definition of corrosive, perhaps, but quite a few metals will dissolve in water, and a fair number (aluminum and iron to name the obvious ones) oxidize.
The carpenter of this thread insists he is doing it right based on some special knowledge only he is privy to and rather than explaining why he thinks he's right and sharing that special knowledge, he chooses instead to challenge the people who are pointing out that he's bleeding to "do better or quit complaining".
Meanwhile, the house is years behind the promised schedule, billions over budget, and is generally an eyesore to the neighborhood while it's left under construction.
Why should I have one? I'm not the one claiming that I can run a war, but I can damn well expect that the Commander in Chief should have an actual working plan, and be able to set milestones, meet them on time, and produce results.
How about letting us in on Bush's War on Terror plan? Include all relevant milestones that lead along the path to our goal (also, state the goal, preferably in terms that do not require psychic powers in order to determine that we have reached the goal such as "nobody wants to kill us"), target dates for achieving each milestone, and which milestones we have achieved to date.
"Something MUST be done!!1! This is something, therefore we must do it!" Sound familiar?
People who are in favor of anything or who advocate taking any action just haven't learned from the past.
So the only options are either sitting at home and crying about terrorists or screaming "LEEEERRROOOYYYY JENNNNNKIIINNNNSSS!!!!" and then sitting at home and crying about how the damn liberals made your flawless plan to charge blindly into battle without thought or preparation fail?
What, like how we trained and equipped bin Laden? Or how we trained and equipped Saddam Hussein? Or how the Afghan government we installed is still a fundamental Islamic government that sentences non-Muslims to death?
History, on repeat. Learn from it, or stand there and continue to insist that this time will be different, somehow.
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If I can fire someone for standing on a soapbox and supporting a party I don't like then can I fire someone for not standing on a soapbox in his "free time" and supporting the party I like?
Sure, and then that person can stand on his soapbox and tell everyone that you're a shitty employer who forces people to profess their love for [insert party here] and spend X hours of uncompensated time a week spreading that love as a condition for employment.
Of course, I think half of the people posting in this thread about how employees shouldn't expect to be able to do whatever they want during their unpaid time would immediately start screaming for their lawyer as soon as one of their ex-employees started exercising that right once they're no longer paid at all.
With encrypted LVM solutions things can get all kinds of hairy though.
LUKS (cryptsetup) actually has a mechanism for adding multiple keys, though if you let the user log in as root, they'd just change those keys too. Or hell, dd /dev/urandom over the whole thing.
But if they really wanted to screw the company over, why bother with all that when they can just "lose" the laptop on a business trip?
It was government listening to the solar lobby
Pretty much. What's stopping the solar lobby from buying their own damn land and building whatever they want there (other than the obvious promise of cheap/free government land)?
find a substitute
I hear Quake 5 for the abacus is going to be awesome!
Same here. I look forward to continuing to use the slashdot submit feature, too!
Unfortunately, you'll need to wait a while before using this resource.
why do I need to pay extra for health insurance lately? Because doctors are being sued into oblivion.
Except in Texas (and a number of other states).
http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/05/18/tort-reform-is-healthcare-reform/ talks about how awesome Texas reform has been, and that doctors here pay 35% less in premiums now than they did before. The funny thing is, searching for tort reform in Texas brings up a lot of what you've said (everything is expensive because of lawsuits) and not much followup (tort reform has made everything cheaper).
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-medmal_17bus.ART0.State.Edition2.43983f4.html California has had Texas-style ($250k cap) tort reform since 1975.
So, given that several states have reformed, and given the fact that you cannot currently shop for health insurance across state lines (which implies -to me at least- that the cost of insurance is mostly related to the conditions within the state), can you show that health care is cheaper in a reformed state than a non-reformed state?
Read your constitution.
What does the constitution have to do with whether something is a right or not?
If all property were privately-owned, it would be much more difficult for you to pollute without facing consequences from your neighbors.
Yeaaaaah... no.
What about all the pollution out there that lands on property that is privately-owned? I guess they're just too lazy to look at the little "From:" tags tied to the benzene rings or bits of soot to try and sue the corporations that released them.
Outsourcing in general is caused by the minimum wage.
Maybe if we were talking about outsourcing at McDonalds? Last I checked, IT jobs are largely salaried positions, not an hourly wage one. Not only that, but they are largely exempt from overtime pay rules.
I think in this case, your high horse is dead.
barriers to productivity
our total refining capacity
Maybe if companies like BP Amoco could spend some of their capital to keep their refineries from exploding, we might have more refinery capacity. If the companies can't be bothered WITH government regulation, you think they're going to do better without?
Just some food for thought.
This cannot be immaterial, as it is the point of the parable.
Perhaps so, but as oil prices continue to increase, the damage would be done whether or not production moved anywhere. Leaping out and screaming "omg! broken window!" is wailing at the wind and achieves nothing at all.
You can achieve 100% service availability by clustering
Is that where when I run "DROP TABLE reallyimportanttable;" it drops it on all the servers at once?
Collective bargaining (aka unions)
The union's greatest trick was to convince people that they can't bargain collectively without paying the union boss their dues.
Generally speaking, the states where this is "not allowed" is what the Big Unions call states where they're not allowed to take money from non-members' paychecks, making them not as profitable to operate in.
3 requires the punishment be greater.
3 was effectively struck down to make room for punishing sex offenders.
you haven't been successful in finding anything else you could actually prove he did illegally?
Actually, there is, since the government fucked up and set a lawyer a copy of the transcript of his own phone calls.
It's just been wandering around the court system for a couple of years now.
http://fas.org/sgp/jud/statesec/ahif090706.pdf
They could practically sue DuPont out of existence if that happened.
Only if they could prove that it was DuPont that did the damage, and not one of the hundreds of other companies throwing their chemicals in the water, or homeowners pouring their oil into the storm drains, or farmers washing their fertilizers into the rivers, or...
It might almost work in an ideal world with an ideal legal system, but in ours, they'd simply insist they didn't throw anything in the water and it wasn't carcinogenic, and the fact that you've got 50 different tumors is the fault of everyone else. And that's assuming you were able to catch them in the first place, since without the power of government to trespass on their property, you wouldn't be able to see what they were dumping that was running into yours.
The problem is not with the companies, but with the politicians willing to accept the bribes. That is where to place the blame.
So if I want someone dead, all I have to do is keep offering people money until they do it, and it's not my fault that someone eventually takes the money? Is it that hard to recognize that both those that demand and those that supply are at fault?
That's like me saying I'm the next Warren Buffet because I've got 'big plans!' Lame.
More like saying you're the next Warren Buffet because you own a share of Disney, and have the certificate framed in your cubicle to prove it.
Part of the problem is that the deal is just now coming to light, but the mortgage was signed back in 2003, when hot and cold mortgages were flowing cheap from the tap, not that a lot of people can remember back that far.
The bigger question is, when does his intro rate reset, and what did it reset to, compared to everyone else who got a loan back then?
A 30 year AR mortgage intro'd at 4.5%
This is wrong though, per the NY times:
Hang it underhand, and people can scrape the paint from behind the sheet with their finger nails by accident.
Not to mention tall people, who can't see the end of the sheet making a huge pile on the floor while looking down at the roll, turning it and looking for the end.
Anyone putting "liquid sodium" and "safe" in the same sentence seriously needs to read a book on basic chemistry.
... corrode ?
Works for me, as long as you keep water out of it, and it out of water. Since the temperature is below sodium's boiling point, the coolant loop isn't under pressure, unlike the water loops that must be pressurized to keep the water from boiling.
what substances does demineralized water
Everything? How do you think the minerals got in there in the first place? To be fair, not all of it is from the chemical definition of corrosive, perhaps, but quite a few metals will dissolve in water, and a fair number (aluminum and iron to name the obvious ones) oxidize.
The poster is wrong about sodium not being corrosive itself, it's pretty nasty as well. Plenty of research out there on this.
it may take him a few tries
The carpenter of this thread insists he is doing it right based on some special knowledge only he is privy to and rather than explaining why he thinks he's right and sharing that special knowledge, he chooses instead to challenge the people who are pointing out that he's bleeding to "do better or quit complaining".
Meanwhile, the house is years behind the promised schedule, billions over budget, and is generally an eyesore to the neighborhood while it's left under construction.
Just complaints about other people's actions.
It doesn't take a carpenter to say that the guy nailing his thumb to the wall is doing it wrong.
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy"
Is that an excuse for not having one in the first place? Was the contingency plan also a casualty of war?
And what's the anti-war "terrorism" plan then?
Why should I have one? I'm not the one claiming that I can run a war, but I can damn well expect that the Commander in Chief should have an actual working plan, and be able to set milestones, meet them on time, and produce results.
How about letting us in on Bush's War on Terror plan? Include all relevant milestones that lead along the path to our goal (also, state the goal, preferably in terms that do not require psychic powers in order to determine that we have reached the goal such as "nobody wants to kill us"), target dates for achieving each milestone, and which milestones we have achieved to date.
No need to have any solutions to anything.
"Something MUST be done!!1! This is something, therefore we must do it!" Sound familiar?
People who are in favor of anything or who advocate taking any action just haven't learned from the past.
So the only options are either sitting at home and crying about terrorists or screaming "LEEEERRROOOYYYY JENNNNNKIIINNNNSSS!!!!" and then sitting at home and crying about how the damn liberals made your flawless plan to charge blindly into battle without thought or preparation fail?
And what if it happens again?
What, like how we trained and equipped bin Laden? Or how we trained and equipped Saddam Hussein? Or how the Afghan government we installed is still a fundamental Islamic government that sentences non-Muslims to death?
History, on repeat. Learn from it, or stand there and continue to insist that this time will be different, somehow.