Virginia is most certainly NOT a right-to-work state. It is an at-will employment state.
From the linked article:
The courts of Virginia follow an "employment-at-will" doctrine. At-will employees may be terminated for any reason, so long as it is not illegal. Generally, employees who work under an employment contract can only be terminated for reasons specified in the contract. However, in Virginia, the mere fact that an employment contract is in writing is not sufficient to overcome the presumption that the employment is at-will. To overcome this presumption, an employment contract must directly limit, in a meaningful and special way, the employer's right to terminate the employee without cause. In other words, the employer has to unequivocally indicate that it will not terminate the employee except under specific circumstances.
Imagine if you will a man who works for his family pulling in what is a very decent wage for the economy of the region he lives in. he is sent off to work hard manual labour for 3 weeks on (every day, generally 12-15 hour days) and gets one week off. They live in shared dorms, have their meals in a cafeteria. Their family is not allowed to come visit. Conjugal visits are a definate no-no. in fact Men and women are kept in separate dorms and one "infraction" (aka you get caught) you're fired.
The point you make is the exact point all corporations make in order to exploit cheap foreign labor. "Well, their lives sucked, so let us pay them peanuts, then they must be happy"
So I shouldn't contribute to charities just because every person they try to help doesn't end up wealthy? The point of employment and charity is to make people's lives better, _not_ necessarily Bill Gatesian.
Understood, but from the standpoint of carrying enough energy in a reasonably-sized car to get you from point A to point B, rechargability doesn't matter. I can either carry around half a ton of rechargable batteries to get enough Joules, or a couple of gallons of replaceable gasoline.
PS - If you enjoy clean, homespun humor, Jerry Clower is a hoot.
Obligatory greenie quote re: California hotspot
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A greenie, who had never heard of the naturally-occurring oil seep/hotspot, instantly predicted gloom and doom for California Condors:
Jeff Kuyper, executive director of Los Padres ForestWatch, said he had not heard of hot spots in the oil field but was concerned about their potential effect on the nearby Sespe Condor Sanctuary and the forest's fire-prone nature.
"It's just a disaster waiting to happen . . . regardless of what the cause is," he said.
That's right, it's a disaster, no matter what! That about sums up their position re: anything remotely environmental; panic, regardless.
1 MJ/kg sounds like a lot of energy (like a stick of dynamite or something), until you look at thesepages and realize that a loaf of bread has an energy density of 10 MJ/kg. this chart puts things into perspective; the X axis is MJ/kg, and the Y axis is MJ/liter. Current battery technology is dreadfully close to the origin.
The recent Amateur radio mode called WSPR ('whisper') can work with a signal around 27 dB below the noise (SNR of -27dB). This site records contacts between hams worldwide in real time. Most activity is on 30m.
Asking someone to show ID to get on a plane seems reasonable to me.
How does knowing a passenger's identity increase your safety aboard an airplane? I'd rather allow anonymous travel and require mandatory pat-downs than believe I'm any safer because some government hack knows the name of the guy that's willing to die so he can kill a few others.
So much for not needing 'papers' to travel inside the US.
Why can't you believe this? The OP is correct - gravity is a _tiny_ force when compared with magnetism or any of the other nuclear forces. The first table table in this article states that the weak nuclear force is 10^25 times as strong as gravity, and the electromagnetic force (which is also a 1/r^2 force) is 10^36 times as strong!
No, there's no sure-fire way to know a phone number is cellular. Land line and cellular phone numbers share area codes and in some cases prefixes.
US phone numbers are structured like this: AAA-PPP-NNNN. A=Area code (large geographic area; used to be 1 or 2 per state pre-cell phones); PPP=Prefix. Unique within an area code. Denotes a locality, like a town or city. NNNN=number within the area code/prefix.
With the rise is popularity of cell phones and number portability, the number of area codes has exploded and the area code to location mapping that used to be absolute is now fraying. Since I can keep my Virginia cell phone number if I move across country, the area code means a lot less than it used to.
My latest favorite conspiracy theory revolves around the T.R.E.A.D. Act, which, as you can probably guess, deals with tires. The conspiracy part arises from embedding RFID tags in them to surreptitiously track people.
"Tires have to have a unique identification number called a DOT number," he said. "Cars have a vehicle identification number. Under the TREAD Act, carmakers have to associate the unique number on each tire with the VIN of the car it's put on. RFID offers a cheaper way to do that association."
Holler when they can selectively print with highly conductive and non-conductive inks. I can then design 3D, flexible, massively interconnected PC boards.
Pump it out into shallow pools, let it dry, scoop it up, and sell it as 'green' sea salt. No more digging into Salt Domes (like the one that is Avery Island) with those nasty polluting machines.
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Virginia is most certainly NOT a right-to-work state. It is an at-will employment state.
From the linked article:
Imagine if you will a man who works for his family pulling in what is a very decent wage for the economy of the region he lives in. he is sent off to work hard manual labour for 3 weeks on (every day, generally 12-15 hour days) and gets one week off. They live in shared dorms, have their meals in a cafeteria. Their family is not allowed to come visit. Conjugal visits are a definate no-no. in fact Men and women are kept in separate dorms and one "infraction" (aka you get caught) you're fired.
Sounds like the guys on "Deadliest Catch".
The point you make is the exact point all corporations make in order to exploit cheap foreign labor. "Well, their lives sucked, so let us pay them peanuts, then they must be happy"
So I shouldn't contribute to charities just because every person they try to help doesn't end up wealthy? The point of employment and charity is to make people's lives better, _not_ necessarily Bill Gatesian.
Unions are about protecting workers, as people.
Unions used to be about protecting workers, as people.
There, fixed that for you.
Understood, but from the standpoint of carrying enough energy in a reasonably-sized car to get you from point A to point B, rechargability doesn't matter. I can either carry around half a ton of rechargable batteries to get enough Joules, or a couple of gallons of replaceable gasoline.
All I remember is that "The Bionic Woman" was supposed to be from Ojai. I had a terrible crush on Lindsay Wagner back then.
That 'heavy mud' is made of Bentonite, usually sodium Bentonite, along with other additives such as barite to make it denser.
It's similar to a story told by Jerry Clower, attributed to Zell Miller.
PS - If you enjoy clean, homespun humor, Jerry Clower is a hoot.
A greenie, who had never heard of the naturally-occurring oil seep/hotspot, instantly predicted gloom and doom for California Condors:
That's right, it's a disaster, no matter what! That about sums up their position re: anything remotely environmental; panic, regardless.
Isn't the proton a hadron?
Yes, but if it doesn't 'decay' within 4 hours, it must seek medical attention immediately.
A battery with >1 MJ/kg is important.
1 MJ/kg sounds like a lot of energy (like a stick of dynamite or something), until you look at these pages and realize that a loaf of bread has an energy density of 10 MJ/kg. this chart puts things into perspective; the X axis is MJ/kg, and the Y axis is MJ/liter. Current battery technology is dreadfully close to the origin.
The recent Amateur radio mode called WSPR ('whisper') can work with a signal around 27 dB below the noise (SNR of -27dB). This site records contacts between hams worldwide in real time. Most activity is on 30m.
I knew I was going to be a geek for life when at a young age I read a button on a soda machine as "Hi-Res" Root Beer.
Asking someone to show ID to get on a plane seems reasonable to me.
How does knowing a passenger's identity increase your safety aboard an airplane? I'd rather allow anonymous travel and require mandatory pat-downs than believe I'm any safer because some government hack knows the name of the guy that's willing to die so he can kill a few others.
So much for not needing 'papers' to travel inside the US.
Why can't you believe this? The OP is correct - gravity is a _tiny_ force when compared with magnetism or any of the other nuclear forces. The first table table in this article states that the weak nuclear force is 10^25 times as strong as gravity, and the electromagnetic force (which is also a 1/r^2 force) is 10^36 times as strong!
36 orders of magnitude is the same as comparing a proton in a carbon atom to the Milky Way Galaxy.
No, there's no sure-fire way to know a phone number is cellular. Land line and cellular phone numbers share area codes and in some cases prefixes.
US phone numbers are structured like this: AAA-PPP-NNNN. A=Area code (large geographic area; used to be 1 or 2 per state pre-cell phones); PPP=Prefix. Unique within an area code. Denotes a locality, like a town or city. NNNN=number within the area code/prefix.
With the rise is popularity of cell phones and number portability, the number of area codes has exploded and the area code to location mapping that used to be absolute is now fraying. Since I can keep my Virginia cell phone number if I move across country, the area code means a lot less than it used to.
Ah, sorry about that. I missed that sentence.
How would it look to vote for the "Prevent Every Random Violation of Eager Redheaded Teens" Act?
My latest favorite conspiracy theory revolves around the T.R.E.A.D. Act, which, as you can probably guess, deals with tires. The conspiracy part arises from embedding RFID tags in them to surreptitiously track people.
From this article:
Been reading "Cryptonomicon", have we? I loved that book, but the "Half-cock Jack" tales did nothing for me.
I'm talking about 1000 layers/inch. 16 layers total doesn't cut it.
Holler when they can selectively print with highly conductive and non-conductive inks. I can then design 3D, flexible, massively interconnected PC boards.
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Obligatory useless fact: The song that Diva Plava Laguna sang was the "Mad Scene" from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor". When done well, it is a very intense opera (as was done in this performance by the up-and-coming soprano Manon Strauss Evrard).
Pump it out into shallow pools, let it dry, scoop it up, and sell it as 'green' sea salt. No more digging into Salt Domes (like the one that is Avery Island) with those nasty polluting machines.
See this post for links to a very well-run pumped storage facility.