It's ALL testing, really, innit? And I don't mean in a nudge-nudge-wink-wink way. Sort of like the FAA certificating experimental aircraft for "flight tests only", i.e. pretty much every time you take off.
If people are living longer, it makes sense to raise the retirement age.
It only makes sense to raise the retirement age if there are REAL jobs available for all those old folks. For all practical purposes this isn't currently the case. You can legislate against age discrimination all you want, but when it comes right down to it, if your employer wants to get rid of you, you don't have a prayer. (And who wants to work where they're not wanted anyway.) Being a greeter at Wal Mart or a bag-boy at Ralph's isn't how I want to spend my last working years.
At least by the GOP... they're just not putting it in recognizable terms. Their shills in the audience are already floating out the "solution" to this: raising the retirement age, privatizing social security and medicare, and implementing a flat-tax or value-added tax. All of these further the Republican agenda, and all have MAJOR problems, at least for those of us in the middle and lower-income categories. Expect to see all three of these concepts being thrust into the forefront if Bush is re-elected.
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I live in Australia and I'm pretty sure our home invasion rates are not "through the roof".
How sure is "pretty sure". Do you, in fact, have ANY idea what the statistics were and are? (I don't, but then I didn't make any claims either way.) Check on that and get back to us, pardner.
Florida is a "right to work" state, meaning that they can terminate you for pretty much anything OTHER than race/age/sex/religion (i.e. things explicitly covered by law.) As far as docking pay, that's also legal, as long as your weekly average hourly wage (pay/hours) doesn't fall below federal minimum wage.
It's a weasely thing to do but there's probably not anything you can do about it.
However crying foul to the point where the government is crippled from fulfilling it's main duties
Explain how this is possible. Are you implying that George Bush reacts so poorly to verbal criticism or adversity that he would be paralyzed and unable to perform his duties? (On the other hand, given his reaction when told of the unfolding 9-11 events, you MAY have a point there.)
That isn't such a good deal, people from other countries constantly come to the US for healthcare.
It's not a "good thing" for the class of Americans who can afford decent health care. You make a significant overgeneralization, however, when you say people from other countries...; in actuality it's RICH people from other countries who come here for treatment, in part because we have generally good health care available to those (like them) who can afford it, but more to the point, our American health care is less clogged-up (i.e. less waiting) for those who can afford it BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD IT and thus do not "get in the way" of the more affluent, as happens in their home countries with health care rationed by need rather than by ability to pay.
As you may have guessed, the amp wasn't properly grounded, but my bare feet on a concrete basement floor must have been a great natural ground. My screaming was for someone to get the f***ing axe off me.
Needless to say, after I stopped shaking, the amp went into the nearest Dumpster
You wasted a perfectly good amp. All you had to do was take the power cord and turn it 180 degrees... your friend's basement either had old ("unpolarized") wiring or it was wired backwards (hot and neutral switched... VERY dangerous.)
I have been using this one with both my Dell Inspiron 7000 (W2K and W98se) and my iBook (OSX 10.2) with no problems or glitches whatsoever. I vaguely recall Red Hat not being able to find the mouse during one installation but I don't remember the details or how/if I worked around it.
The issue of durability and/or reliability wasn't addressed in the review but I have to say that I was impressed as hell when my Cruzer-mini went through both my washer and dryer with no apparent effect. That was several months ago and it still works great.
Yeah BUT... just playing devil's advocate here, but you DO realize that pure water is also a very good insulator as well? The problem is, water is also a very good solvent, so once you put anything in it, you start getting ionic contaminants and it DOES begin to conduct. This is something that wouldn't be (and wasn't) addressed in TFA; that is, how likely electronic components immersed in it are to leach contaminants into it, potentially causing its conductivity to change. I *think* that CFC's are pretty benign in this regard, and this stuff may be similar, but it's something to consider.
Ok first, why this has been modded to +5 when it could arguably be flamebait is beyond me
And arguably, it should be modded to +5. Arguably, the poster (me) doesn't give a shit either way. Arguably, one man's flamebait is another man's +5 (Funny). Arguably, it seems like a waste of time to bitch about moderation. (Do you meta-moderate, or bitch about that too?)
I suppose if it takes you too much beyond that amount of time maybe you are (and I use this in the truest sense of the word) retarded.
Actually I meant that if you don't understand why this isn't allowed then you're retarded, although I won't argue the point. It seems obvious to me that if that were the case, then unscrupulous employers would bully their workers to clock out at 40 hours and finish their assigned work on their own time or risk being fired. Since most of us don't determine our own work load, the amount of time it should take to finish a given set of tasks is highly subjective, and I will cynically assume that employers and employees will have radically different ideas about what is or is not reasonable. Thus the feds step in and set the admittedly arbitrary limit at 40 hours per week (without overtime pay for non-exempt employees) and this compromise (mexican standoff?) has been in place for a couple of generations. It is now threatened. I guess working 60 hours a week didn't kill our great-grandparents, maybe it won't hurt us either.
By the way, I'm curious what federal labor laws the parent is refering to here
The government is not keeping anything invented by Tesla secret.
How do you know? How COULD you know anything about that? I'm not saying that they are, only that it's absurd of you to make such a ridiculous unprovable statement.
The Feds issued a memo (or white paper or something simiar) a few months ago explaining how employers in the US can do this by reducing the hourly wage, pay overtime on the reduced rate, so that the total weekly wage comes out exactly the same as if no overtime pay was earned. It's 7th grade math, and probably not many of the intended recipients needed the help. Nice to know the administration is thinking about the little guys though. Guffaw. Details
If it takes you longer to do your work than what you are given, you should be able to make up the difference on your own non-paid time without being fired.
Sam Walton speaks from the grave. Thank you Mister Walton, you may return to hell now.
It's against federal labor laws to work unpaid hours whether it's the employee's idea or otherwise, and for reasons which are OBVIOUS unless you're retarded.
This is exactly what French companies must do, and as a result, there is not much economic growth in France
I think a country's economic well-being is a little more complicated than that. You state this as a fact, when it's no such thing; it's a supposition that not everybody agrees with.
And let's not forget, for every company that outsources to stay in business, there are 99 that outsource to increase value to shareholders, PERIOD.
'I don't know that we would be around as a company if we hadn't done that. What was the right thing to do, morally?'"
The right thing to do, morally, is probably to go out of business. What if the choice was to not pay for workman's comp insurance or go out of business? Or to pay their employees $2 an hour or go out of business? Using "but... but... we'll go out of business if we don't do this" is a lame ass excuse.
Same thing happened at my school, although we didn't get timeshare accounts... we had to run everything batch with punch cards. (Which we had to pay for ourselves.) Thank god for the card sorter (also donated) since it wasn't that uncommon for somebody to grab your case of cards and play 1000-card-pickup with 'em.
Some if not most of the best programmers I've known were terrible spellers, some of them bordering on illiterate. I think spelling and programming/logic are orthogonal skillsets. I'm not much of a speller myself but I can at least recognize misspelled words. Usually.
if their licensing arrangements with the music producers are on a par with the rest of the current group of players, they will only be selling in the US (maybe Canada) anyway.
Download.com and similar sites used to be good sources of freeware, but since they started charging to list your software, the freeware is gone; at best, the authors will want to recoup their listing fee.
My productivity will fall to zero when they take my legacy machine away, but it WILL happen. They have determined that nobody is using the NMCI machines BECAUSE the legacy machines are still available. They are fully aware that the NMCI network is pure shit, but the only way it will be fixed is when people actually USE it and start opening trouble tickets to address problems, and the only way people will use them to find these problems is when they no longer have legacy machines. I expect to walk into my office and find it gone any day now.
Although I acknowledge that there are good reasons for suing a doctor, most of them are not. Doctors are human, they're doing the best they can.
Most are not? What percentage? How did you aquire your objective data?
You may be right, but I defy you to find any credible statistics on that sort of thing. The doctors are the LAST ones to want to publicize that sort of thing. Let's face it... medicine is a business, but it's certainly a different business than most. Every heard of a doctor offering a warrantee? What would happen if you asked for your money back from one if he didn't cure you? Would you accept those terms from any other "business"? What if your mechanic said "well, I couldn't fix your air conditioner. That'll be $300, maam, you can pay the receptionist on the way out." What recourse DOES a dissatisfied patient have other than to sue? What about a mechanic who doesn't fix your brakes properly, causing a fatal accident? Mechanics are only human too, right? He gave those brakes his best shot, after all.
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It's ALL testing, really, innit? And I don't mean in a nudge-nudge-wink-wink way. Sort of like the FAA certificating experimental aircraft for "flight tests only", i.e. pretty much every time you take off.
If people are living longer, it makes sense to raise the retirement age.
It only makes sense to raise the retirement age if there are REAL jobs available for all those old folks. For all practical purposes this isn't currently the case. You can legislate against age discrimination all you want, but when it comes right down to it, if your employer wants to get rid of you, you don't have a prayer. (And who wants to work where they're not wanted anyway.) Being a greeter at Wal Mart or a bag-boy at Ralph's isn't how I want to spend my last working years.
At least by the GOP... they're just not putting it in recognizable terms. Their shills in the audience are already floating out the "solution" to this: raising the retirement age, privatizing social security and medicare, and implementing a flat-tax or value-added tax. All of these further the Republican agenda, and all have MAJOR problems, at least for those of us in the middle and lower-income categories. Expect to see all three of these concepts being thrust into the forefront if Bush is re-elected.
I live in Australia and I'm pretty sure our home invasion rates are not "through the roof".
How sure is "pretty sure". Do you, in fact, have ANY idea what the statistics were and are? (I don't, but then I didn't make any claims either way.) Check on that and get back to us, pardner.
Florida is a "right to work" state, meaning that they can terminate you for pretty much anything OTHER than race/age/sex/religion (i.e. things explicitly covered by law.) As far as docking pay, that's also legal, as long as your weekly average hourly wage (pay/hours) doesn't fall below federal minimum wage.
It's a weasely thing to do but there's probably not anything you can do about it.
I don't understand this. I really don't -- I have never had problems with Word "eating" documents. Never
And I've never had colon cancer, but that doesn't make me want to jump up and claim that the disease doesn't exist. Sheesh.
However crying foul to the point where the government is crippled from fulfilling it's main duties
Explain how this is possible. Are you implying that George Bush reacts so poorly to verbal criticism or adversity that he would be paralyzed and unable to perform his duties? (On the other hand, given his reaction when told of the unfolding 9-11 events, you MAY have a point there.)
That isn't such a good deal, people from other countries constantly come to the US for healthcare.
It's not a "good thing" for the class of Americans who can afford decent health care. You make a significant overgeneralization, however, when you say people from other countries...; in actuality it's RICH people from other countries who come here for treatment, in part because we have generally good health care available to those (like them) who can afford it, but more to the point, our American health care is less clogged-up (i.e. less waiting) for those who can afford it BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD IT and thus do not "get in the way" of the more affluent, as happens in their home countries with health care rationed by need rather than by ability to pay.
As you may have guessed, the amp wasn't properly grounded, but my bare feet on a concrete basement floor must have been a great natural ground. My screaming was for someone to get the f***ing axe off me. Needless to say, after I stopped shaking, the amp went into the nearest Dumpster
You wasted a perfectly good amp. All you had to do was take the power cord and turn it 180 degrees... your friend's basement either had old ("unpolarized") wiring or it was wired backwards (hot and neutral switched... VERY dangerous.)
Nothing at all wrong with the amp.
I have been using this one with both my Dell Inspiron 7000 (W2K and W98se) and my iBook (OSX 10.2) with no problems or glitches whatsoever. I vaguely recall Red Hat not being able to find the mouse during one installation but I don't remember the details or how/if I worked around it.
The issue of durability and/or reliability wasn't addressed in the review but I have to say that I was impressed as hell when my Cruzer-mini went through both my washer and dryer with no apparent effect. That was several months ago and it still works great.
Yeah BUT... just playing devil's advocate here, but you DO realize that pure water is also a very good insulator as well? The problem is, water is also a very good solvent, so once you put anything in it, you start getting ionic contaminants and it DOES begin to conduct. This is something that wouldn't be (and wasn't) addressed in TFA; that is, how likely electronic components immersed in it are to leach contaminants into it, potentially causing its conductivity to change. I *think* that CFC's are pretty benign in this regard, and this stuff may be similar, but it's something to consider.
if you circulate it, even a little bit, it's not likely to get hot enough to vaporize anyway.
Ok first, why this has been modded to +5 when it could arguably be flamebait is beyond me
And arguably, it should be modded to +5. Arguably, the poster (me) doesn't give a shit either way. Arguably, one man's flamebait is another man's +5 (Funny). Arguably, it seems like a waste of time to bitch about moderation. (Do you meta-moderate, or bitch about that too?)
I suppose if it takes you too much beyond that amount of time maybe you are (and I use this in the truest sense of the word) retarded.
Actually I meant that if you don't understand why this isn't allowed then you're retarded, although I won't argue the point. It seems obvious to me that if that were the case, then unscrupulous employers would bully their workers to clock out at 40 hours and finish their assigned work on their own time or risk being fired. Since most of us don't determine our own work load, the amount of time it should take to finish a given set of tasks is highly subjective, and I will cynically assume that employers and employees will have radically different ideas about what is or is not reasonable. Thus the feds step in and set the admittedly arbitrary limit at 40 hours per week (without overtime pay for non-exempt employees) and this compromise (mexican standoff?) has been in place for a couple of generations. It is now threatened. I guess working 60 hours a week didn't kill our great-grandparents, maybe it won't hurt us either.
By the way, I'm curious what federal labor laws the parent is refering to here
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Face it. The first place I encountered books about Tesla was on the remainder tables at the bookstore
Aha!!! Absolute proof that the man was a quack!! You're a genius, man.
You obviously don't know a thing about the history of electrical distribution in the US.
The government is not keeping anything invented by Tesla secret.
How do you know? How COULD you know anything about that? I'm not saying that they are, only that it's absurd of you to make such a ridiculous unprovable statement.
The Feds issued a memo (or white paper or something simiar) a few months ago explaining how employers in the US can do this by reducing the hourly wage, pay overtime on the reduced rate, so that the total weekly wage comes out exactly the same as if no overtime pay was earned. It's 7th grade math, and probably not many of the intended recipients needed the help. Nice to know the administration is thinking about the little guys though. Guffaw. Details
If it takes you longer to do your work than what you are given, you should be able to make up the difference on your own non-paid time without being fired.
Sam Walton speaks from the grave. Thank you Mister Walton, you may return to hell now.
It's against federal labor laws to work unpaid hours whether it's the employee's idea or otherwise, and for reasons which are OBVIOUS unless you're retarded.
This is exactly what French companies must do, and as a result, there is not much economic growth in France
I think a country's economic well-being is a little more complicated than that. You state this as a fact, when it's no such thing; it's a supposition that not everybody agrees with.
And let's not forget, for every company that outsources to stay in business, there are 99 that outsource to increase value to shareholders, PERIOD.
'I don't know that we would be around as a company if we hadn't done that. What was the right thing to do, morally?'"
The right thing to do, morally, is probably to go out of business. What if the choice was to not pay for workman's comp insurance or go out of business? Or to pay their employees $2 an hour or go out of business? Using "but... but... we'll go out of business if we don't do this" is a lame ass excuse.
Same thing happened at my school, although we didn't get timeshare accounts... we had to run everything batch with punch cards. (Which we had to pay for ourselves.) Thank god for the card sorter (also donated) since it wasn't that uncommon for somebody to grab your case of cards and play 1000-card-pickup with 'em.
Some if not most of the best programmers I've known were terrible spellers, some of them bordering on illiterate. I think spelling and programming/logic are orthogonal skillsets. I'm not much of a speller myself but I can at least recognize misspelled words. Usually.
if their licensing arrangements with the music producers are on a par with the rest of the current group of players, they will only be selling in the US (maybe Canada) anyway.
Download.com and similar sites used to be good sources of freeware, but since they started charging to list your software, the freeware is gone; at best, the authors will want to recoup their listing fee.
My productivity will fall to zero when they take my legacy machine away, but it WILL happen. They have determined that nobody is using the NMCI machines BECAUSE the legacy machines are still available. They are fully aware that the NMCI network is pure shit, but the only way it will be fixed is when people actually USE it and start opening trouble tickets to address problems, and the only way people will use them to find these problems is when they no longer have legacy machines. I expect to walk into my office and find it gone any day now.
Although I acknowledge that there are good reasons for suing a doctor, most of them are not. Doctors are human, they're doing the best they can.
Most are not? What percentage? How did you aquire your objective data?
You may be right, but I defy you to find any credible statistics on that sort of thing. The doctors are the LAST ones to want to publicize that sort of thing. Let's face it... medicine is a business, but it's certainly a different business than most. Every heard of a doctor offering a warrantee? What would happen if you asked for your money back from one if he didn't cure you? Would you accept those terms from any other "business"? What if your mechanic said "well, I couldn't fix your air conditioner. That'll be $300, maam, you can pay the receptionist on the way out." What recourse DOES a dissatisfied patient have other than to sue? What about a mechanic who doesn't fix your brakes properly, causing a fatal accident? Mechanics are only human too, right? He gave those brakes his best shot, after all.