Wait a minute. Isn't this part of Ashcroft's campaign to destroy our civil rights? These folks were just sending email. What about our rights? Why wasn't this a 'your rights online' submission?
Either you have a dog shit fetish or your email requires a shovel to delete.
Spoken like a spammer.
The problem is not deleting the spam...the problem is having to pick through it to make sure you don't miss something that you want. I take precautions, so frankly spam is a very minor issue for me. But my mother receives about 200 spams a day and about 3 other messages that she wants. Why should she have to scan through 200 lines of 'Re: Your email' and 'Nast y Te en Sl1ts Wa!ing 4u' to pick out the few that she needs? She either has to read through the smut or risk overlooking something important. For people like her, MOST of their email is spam, and that's bullshit.
You're probably like me and have learned to keep your "real" addresses out of the hands of spammers. If so, then I take your comments in the spirit in which they were given. But your average user shouldn't have to take special precautions to keep their email address out of the hands of maggots who send out shit that they know nobody wants -- especially considering that those precautions include NOT USING THEIR ADDRESS WHEN THEY WANT TO, like in the contact info of a forum where they really do want to be available for contact.
Consider also the benefits you can receive upon leaving...
Your comments and link are in line with my understanding of non-competes and other employment contracts. If your employer has a contractual obligation to give you certain things when you leave -- pension, severence pay, etc -- then I don't think they can make up a new condition to receive those things, like making you sign a non-compete. I can imagine a situation, however, where they threaten to withold discretionary benefits such as a traditional bonus or two weeks severence pay that are normally paid but that haven't been promised in writing. I'm just speaking from common sense...if they legally owe you something, signing or not signing a contract is not going to change that.
Side note: I do part-time work for a company that had a non-compete as part of the normal check-in process. Since I do some other things that I get paid for in some overlapping business areas, I just crossed out some paragraphs and modified some others. I initialled all the changes and signed the contract. I even explained what I was doing to the person who handed me the contract. I doubt anybody even noticed that I had "opted out" of certain portions.
I have a real hard time believing this. I don't know what legal right they would have to "demand" that you sign a contract that you don't want to. Heavy-duty pressure, maybe -- legally binding demand, I doubt it.
I could understand an interpretation of the law that could allow them to prevent you from giving away certain information, or maybe even using certain knowledge, but if that's what the law says then they would have no reason to make you sign a contract.
As a side note, as far as I know a contract MUST provide a benefit to both parties. In other words, a typical binding contract will be along the lines of, "In exchange for ___, I agree to ____." In a contract signed before employment, one would agree to certain things in exchange for being given the job.
If you have more details about your claim, I'd be interested to hear them.
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The first time, the woman was smiling at me. The second time, the woman was glaring at me.
This doesn't really match up with most of the stuff I'm reading here, but I have two machines: my workhorse running Linux, and a Windows box running 98SE, which I use only for those apps that I can't do on Linux (a dwindling number, thank goodness.) Since the Windows machine doesn't have anything particularly valuable on it, I regularly shut it down by just hitting the power button. It doesn't matter which applications are running, which files are open, or anything, I just turn it off. And, of course, I skip scan disk the next time I turn it on.
It sometimes does that auto-regress thing where it recovers back to a former registry, and I've had to re-install Windows about once a year. In other words, it seems to be your standard Windows box.
Not that anyone cares, but your post caught my eye because I used to hate Diet Coke too. I thought it was disgusting, and couldn't understand why anyone would want to drink it. But then I started reluctantly sipping it because my wife would always get one at the movies (she's diabetic), and it was easier to just share one between us. I'll be damned if I didn't soon prefer it over regular Coke. Now, when I drink Coke, it tastes like thick sugar water.
I think the reason I used to hate the diet is that I thought it was supposed to taste just like the regular. Well, it's not. Anyway, that's what I drink now, and I'm totally used to it.
No, he was not right. There was something wrong with my eyes, and he couldn't see what it was. The condition could have very well been permanant, and his response would have been the same. It's not like he said, "I know what's causing your problem, and I can tell you that it will go away in a day."
Hmmm...interesting link, but it doesn't sound like my situation. I was not under any stress at all...this was a fun summer job close to home and life was good. And it only happened once for about 36 hours. Though I'm open to any possibility, I'm not sure that my sympton could have been caused by neurological issues.
But I do agree that it may not have been the chemicals. That just seems to be the likely variable.
The major problem that they don't tell you is this: 20/20 vision is NOT the same as perfect vision.
That reminds me of when I was in high school and had 20/15 vision. I had a part time job that involved working with some pretty scary chemicals, and one day when I left work I realized that my vision was "foggy." It looked just like when I used to keep my eyes open in the swimming pool as a kid, and things looked all blurry afterward. Well, I went to a doctor and told him what was wrong, but I was able to read the 20/15 line on the chart. Of course, he said that everything was OK. I had a hell of a time convincing him that everything was NOT OK! It went away after a day though, with no help from him. Sorry for your troubles.
Being on someones property does NOT give them permission to search you, seize your goods, etc.
Of course not, and I didn't say that Best Buy had that right. But a store that is stocked with merchandise has the right, in my opinion, to request proof of purchase when they see that merchandise leaving the store. That's just a common-sense security measure. Otherwise, you're saying, "Because that product, which has our label on it and came off our shelves, is in the hands of a person, we will assume that the person paid for it." You'd get a lot of stuff walking out the door if this was the policy.
This is a completely different situation than, say, requesting to look in someone's purse upon suspicion of shoplifting.
Guy at the door stops me, insists on seeing my receipt.
You're still on their property, and I think they have a right to monitor what is leaving their store. It's not like they searched your pocekts or anything.
The mentality that says, "I'm insulted if I have to participate in security screening" bugs the crap out of me.
"There are men working aloft onboard USS Humptyfratz. Do not rotate, radiate, nor energize any electronic equipment while men are working aloft onboard USS Humptyfratz." Repeated every 15 minutes or so on the shipwide PA system (the 1MC for you squids.) The safety procedures on Navy ships are numerous and many of them, unfortunately, are written in blood. Nowadays they make a VERY BIG DEAL about "tagging" equipment that you are working on, i.e. pulling the fuses and leaving a red tag on it that says, "Do no put these fuses back in because we are working on this equipment." Sounds like your dad was in before they started doing that.
The problem is taking the cans into areas where NO cell phones are allowed...be they in a can, on a wrist watch, whatever. I've seen this same discussion elsewhere, and people seem to think that the dumb old military is just focusing on these scary cans. They are not -- they have just warned people to be careful that they may inadvertantly bring a cell phone into an area where it is not allowed.
You assumed the worst, I think, but at least you didn't actually SAY that dumb old line about the oxymoron. *rolls eyes*
If the films become less profitable, due to piracy or whatever, fewer people will be hired and they are likely to be paid less over time. This is a common mistake made by the short-sighted "corporations are bad" crowd. I know that insane profits are made at the top, but insane gross receipts also encourage expansion, which provides more money and incentive to hire people.
Not that I think this primitive sort of piracy puts a huge dent in the bottom line, mind you, but I reject the argument that the gaffer isn't effected by the total take over the long run.
Not all night vision systems use IR. Some units just amplify very week light (which would not be difficult at all in a theater...there is actually quite a bit of light.)
I think most of the personal video systems with night capability use an IR illuminator (basically, just a light that is invisible to the eye but is visible to the camera.)
Some military systems use IR -- those are the ones that look like some exotic heat-sensor when you see the video. Others just amplify existing light. Those are the ones typically used by pilots...the resulting video is grainy and greenish, but is more or less a real image.
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Wait a minute. Isn't this part of Ashcroft's campaign to destroy our civil rights? These folks were just sending email. What about our rights? Why wasn't this a 'your rights online' submission?
nobody gives a shit about the Olympics this year.
My wife and I were just talking about this earlier today. It's not a sporting event any more...it's a tv show.
Either you have a dog shit fetish or your email requires a shovel to delete.
Spoken like a spammer.
The problem is not deleting the spam...the problem is having to pick through it to make sure you don't miss something that you want. I take precautions, so frankly spam is a very minor issue for me. But my mother receives about 200 spams a day and about 3 other messages that she wants. Why should she have to scan through 200 lines of 'Re: Your email' and 'Nast y Te en Sl1ts Wa!ing 4u' to pick out the few that she needs? She either has to read through the smut or risk overlooking something important. For people like her, MOST of their email is spam, and that's bullshit.
You're probably like me and have learned to keep your "real" addresses out of the hands of spammers. If so, then I take your comments in the spirit in which they were given. But your average user shouldn't have to take special precautions to keep their email address out of the hands of maggots who send out shit that they know nobody wants -- especially considering that those precautions include NOT USING THEIR ADDRESS WHEN THEY WANT TO, like in the contact info of a forum where they really do want to be available for contact.
However I do believe that spam in the same social catagory as grafitti.
I think spam is more like 200 neighbors letting their dogs shit in your yard each day.
Or, to keep with your grafitti motif, spam is like an endless stream of grafitti painted on your own garage door.
I'm not disagreeing with your interesting post...just adding my 2c.
Consider also the benefits you can receive upon leaving...
Your comments and link are in line with my understanding of non-competes and other employment contracts. If your employer has a contractual obligation to give you certain things when you leave -- pension, severence pay, etc -- then I don't think they can make up a new condition to receive those things, like making you sign a non-compete. I can imagine a situation, however, where they threaten to withold discretionary benefits such as a traditional bonus or two weeks severence pay that are normally paid but that haven't been promised in writing. I'm just speaking from common sense...if they legally owe you something, signing or not signing a contract is not going to change that.
Side note: I do part-time work for a company that had a non-compete as part of the normal check-in process. Since I do some other things that I get paid for in some overlapping business areas, I just crossed out some paragraphs and modified some others. I initialled all the changes and signed the contract. I even explained what I was doing to the person who handed me the contract. I doubt anybody even noticed that I had "opted out" of certain portions.
I have a real hard time believing this. I don't know what legal right they would have to "demand" that you sign a contract that you don't want to. Heavy-duty pressure, maybe -- legally binding demand, I doubt it.
I could understand an interpretation of the law that could allow them to prevent you from giving away certain information, or maybe even using certain knowledge, but if that's what the law says then they would have no reason to make you sign a contract.
As a side note, as far as I know a contract MUST provide a benefit to both parties. In other words, a typical binding contract will be along the lines of, "In exchange for ___, I agree to ____." In a contract signed before employment, one would agree to certain things in exchange for being given the job.
If you have more details about your claim, I'd be interested to hear them.
The first time, the woman was smiling at me. The second time, the woman was glaring at me.
The third time, I had mace in my eyes.
This doesn't really match up with most of the stuff I'm reading here, but I have two machines: my workhorse running Linux, and a Windows box running 98SE, which I use only for those apps that I can't do on Linux (a dwindling number, thank goodness.) Since the Windows machine doesn't have anything particularly valuable on it, I regularly shut it down by just hitting the power button. It doesn't matter which applications are running, which files are open, or anything, I just turn it off. And, of course, I skip scan disk the next time I turn it on.
It sometimes does that auto-regress thing where it recovers back to a former registry, and I've had to re-install Windows about once a year. In other words, it seems to be your standard Windows box.
I think it tastes good, and I get thirsty now and then. Gotta drink something, and water gets old after a while.
Not that anyone cares, but your post caught my eye because I used to hate Diet Coke too. I thought it was disgusting, and couldn't understand why anyone would want to drink it. But then I started reluctantly sipping it because my wife would always get one at the movies (she's diabetic), and it was easier to just share one between us. I'll be damned if I didn't soon prefer it over regular Coke. Now, when I drink Coke, it tastes like thick sugar water.
I think the reason I used to hate the diet is that I thought it was supposed to taste just like the regular. Well, it's not. Anyway, that's what I drink now, and I'm totally used to it.
TAB is a different story altogether.
No, he was not right. There was something wrong with my eyes, and he couldn't see what it was. The condition could have very well been permanant, and his response would have been the same. It's not like he said, "I know what's causing your problem, and I can tell you that it will go away in a day."
Hmmm...interesting link, but it doesn't sound like my situation. I was not under any stress at all...this was a fun summer job close to home and life was good. And it only happened once for about 36 hours. Though I'm open to any possibility, I'm not sure that my sympton could have been caused by neurological issues.
But I do agree that it may not have been the chemicals. That just seems to be the likely variable.
The major problem that they don't tell you is this: 20/20 vision is NOT the same as perfect vision.
That reminds me of when I was in high school and had 20/15 vision. I had a part time job that involved working with some pretty scary chemicals, and one day when I left work I realized that my vision was "foggy." It looked just like when I used to keep my eyes open in the swimming pool as a kid, and things looked all blurry afterward. Well, I went to a doctor and told him what was wrong, but I was able to read the 20/15 line on the chart. Of course, he said that everything was OK. I had a hell of a time convincing him that everything was NOT OK! It went away after a day though, with no help from him. Sorry for your troubles.
When i was at collage...
And, um, which collage did you go to?
The whistle blowing statue, that is.
Being on someones property does NOT give them permission to search you, seize your goods, etc.
Of course not, and I didn't say that Best Buy had that right. But a store that is stocked with merchandise has the right, in my opinion, to request proof of purchase when they see that merchandise leaving the store. That's just a common-sense security measure. Otherwise, you're saying, "Because that product, which has our label on it and came off our shelves, is in the hands of a person, we will assume that the person paid for it." You'd get a lot of stuff walking out the door if this was the policy.
This is a completely different situation than, say, requesting to look in someone's purse upon suspicion of shoplifting.
Guy at the door stops me, insists on seeing my receipt.
You're still on their property, and I think they have a right to monitor what is leaving their store. It's not like they searched your pocekts or anything.
The mentality that says, "I'm insulted if I have to participate in security screening" bugs the crap out of me.
"There are men working aloft onboard USS Humptyfratz. Do not rotate, radiate, nor energize any electronic equipment while men are working aloft onboard USS Humptyfratz." Repeated every 15 minutes or so on the shipwide PA system (the 1MC for you squids.) The safety procedures on Navy ships are numerous and many of them, unfortunately, are written in blood. Nowadays they make a VERY BIG DEAL about "tagging" equipment that you are working on, i.e. pulling the fuses and leaving a red tag on it that says, "Do no put these fuses back in because we are working on this equipment." Sounds like your dad was in before they started doing that.
I wouldn't normally waste time pointing these things out, but since you thought it "halarious" that a woman was raped, I will say that:
- It's 'hilarious', no 'halarious'. OK, so a mispelling, but then...
- 'Could of'. 'Could OF'? What are you, 13? Could HAVE! HAVE!
Try this headline on for size:
Military bans recording and communicating devices from sensitive areas, unless they look like soda cans or furry toys.
I don't know what you did in the military, but hopefully it didn't involve security or classified information.
The problem is taking the cans into areas where NO cell phones are allowed...be they in a can, on a wrist watch, whatever. I've seen this same discussion elsewhere, and people seem to think that the dumb old military is just focusing on these scary cans. They are not -- they have just warned people to be careful that they may inadvertantly bring a cell phone into an area where it is not allowed.
You assumed the worst, I think, but at least you didn't actually SAY that dumb old line about the oxymoron. *rolls eyes*
If the films become less profitable, due to piracy or whatever, fewer people will be hired and they are likely to be paid less over time. This is a common mistake made by the short-sighted "corporations are bad" crowd. I know that insane profits are made at the top, but insane gross receipts also encourage expansion, which provides more money and incentive to hire people.
Not that I think this primitive sort of piracy puts a huge dent in the bottom line, mind you, but I reject the argument that the gaffer isn't effected by the total take over the long run.
Not all night vision systems use IR. Some units just amplify very week light (which would not be difficult at all in a theater...there is actually quite a bit of light.)
I think most of the personal video systems with night capability use an IR illuminator (basically, just a light that is invisible to the eye but is visible to the camera.)
Some military systems use IR -- those are the ones that look like some exotic heat-sensor when you see the video. Others just amplify existing light. Those are the ones typically used by pilots...the resulting video is grainy and greenish, but is more or less a real image.
Recording a movie is illegal.
Keeping an eye out for someone doing something illegal in your place of business is not.
I assume you are also against security cameras in stores (or banks, for that matter.)
Why in the world would they have to "prep" for this? Why not just do it? It's not like it's illegal.
[insert black helicopter joke here]
Sheesh.