Got any cases you can cite? My employer absolutely refuses to pay more than $20 a day for on call - which is equivalent to less than 1 hour, if I were paid wages. Since I'm salaried (we all are), they state that by paying on-call at all, they're being nice! We're required to be near a computer when on-call - even take our laptops with us to restaurants and the like - but even comp time after a long night is rare.
The part that chaps my hide the most is that the opinion that "you're salaried, you don't get OT or on-call" is very prevalent in the Memphis market - jumping to another employer simply means trading the devil you know for the devil you don't. I work 10 - 20 hours OT a week; usually another 10 or more on the weeks I'm on-call. Because my title is "Systems Engineer" and my job duties involve putting together servers, they claim I'm ineligible for OT pay - I call bullshit, but since this job is feeding my family.... you know the idea.
I am fully aware that the oppressors have the upper hand because the oppressed do not rise up and refuse - but I've been unemployed before, sometimes for years, because I stood up and said "screw you, I won't be treated that way." Morals and ethics don't pay the bills.
2 year old Compaq laptop, no problems whatsoever with 9.10 install. Took about 15 minutes from SD media. Replaced a WIn7 install, and the partitioner detected and defaulted to multiboot configuration - was rather nice, but I wanted to blow Win7 away and go full-bore anyways, and had no issues. Pretty happy with it so far.
I regularly replace the OS on this laptop, roughly once every month or so. Last month was Win7, before that a few days were spent with Haiku, and Fedora 10 before that. I honestly haven't had many issues with most of the OS/distros I put on the thing, except with wireless support.
Microsoft Works. Propellerheads Reason. Autodesk Maya. Mozilla Firefox. Adobe Acrobat. Intuit Quicken. Oracle 8i.....and I just realized that you're using sarcasm to make a point. I, however, am dense, so the point didn't get through... doh!
Most big trucks have them already, as well. It's damn near impossible to drive for a company nowadays and not have your every move (and several dozen engine "performance" metrics - like MPG) monitored and recorded. I've talked to a few drivers who were canned for not getting a target MPG - and almost all trucks on the road have hard and soft speed limiters set.
After a while, even when you own the truck, you accept it as part of the cost of doing business.
Because I can't buy a 26TB SSD drive, but I can put 52 500GB SSD drives in two CoreRAID chassis and mount them as one filesystem...as opposed to the 2 Sun storage arrays we use now, that are fiber attached and starting to get a little... slow. SSDs would give us 10x the IO overhead.
I'll second this as I drove a truck and was an Owner-Operator for a while - had to get away from the keyboard. It didn't work.
Every mile driven through every state has to be reported to that state, and the taxes paid, on a monthly basis. You pay taxes at the pump, and those taxes are applied to the miles you travel on state roads. It doesn't matter if it's a highway or not - they assume that if you're driving in the state, it's a taxable highway, because 53' trailers aren't legal on many small roads and city streets. And what's a few cents for local travel? You do get a refund of taxes paid if the balance is positive, though. Each state has different taxes, though, so keeping track of it can be a pain - but if you do it right, and fuel in a high-tax state near the state line but put most of you miles in low tax states, you end up with a net positive at the end of the month - so it's more convenient.
Some states, most notably New York, charge both a road tax and a fuel tax. No road tax for toll roads - in theory, see the above for assumptions - but a fuel tax is still required. Double taxation? But wait, there's more!
There's also the Federal Heavy Vehicle Use Tax (HVUT). That's a $550/yr tax for road funding. Per vehicle. Even if it never sees the interstate.
There's also the 13% Federal Excise Tax for every purchase of a heavy truck or equipment for that truck - including an APU, for instance, which reduces diesel consumption and emissions by eliminating idling. That tax also is allocated to the highway department.
Toll roads charge per axle - so a tractor-trailer will pay 2.5 times more than a car to use the road. But with all this funding coming in, why would you need a toll road?
I have an aunt who was in her third trimester when she was in a car accident, and Dolly was born soon after with no apparent damage... except she never grew up. Dolly passed away a few years ago, at the age of 33, and weighed about 80 pounds - she did grow "up", but much slower than normal - she was 20 before she weighed 40 pounds, and never spoke a single intelligible word. She never matured mentally beyond around 6 months, and was always in a crib at all the family gatherings. Thankfully, I never had to change her diaper.
There are some differences, as Dolly did seem to physically mature, just very slowly - but the doctors didn't seem to think it was that phenomenal, just brain damage from the accident. She did have the same odd development that Megan's eyes have - the wandering eye, so to speak. (As opposed to my wandering eye, which is entirely a different sort of affliction.):)
Hell, I rent out a bedroom of my house (in Memphis) for $400/mo, including rent, utilities, cable TV, internet, washer/dryer, kitchen use, and access to my media library over the network. If you can't afford that...
While I presented many links to back up my claim, you have yet to do so. Nonetheless, USC 17 part 1008 - specifically says you can make copies (digital or analog) for noncommercial use.
You jumped right on that typo and turned it into the basis of your argument - and missed the point I was trying to make. So you don't miss it again:
You don't have the right to copy something for personal use, or to transfer to another type of media. You SHOULD - so instead of arguing with me about it, call a congresscritter.
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include--
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
Those are the rights granted by law. That's it. Criticism, comment, new reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Nowhere does it say "media transfer".
I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be a right - but pointing out that it's NOT one currently. As long as people (who seem to think I'm blinded by the RIAA) continue to assume they have a right they don't, the RIAA has succeeded in blinding _them_, while continuing to charge for the same material on new media - cylinders to discs to reel-to-reel tape (4 track) to 8 track to cassette to CD to DVD to BluRay to... holocube? Who knows.
After enough well-qualified applicants refuse, they'll reconsider the requirement - probably after half the existing workforce quits because they're overworked.
As a Texan living in TN - and having lived in other states, as well - the simplest explanation is that like attracts like - and just as much as Austin is a blueberry in a giant cherry pie, there are other parts of the country where conservatives are the minority. With more granularity, different groups of people that have different objectives can still act as a loosely-unified whole.
Hey, it's not that bad where I'm at... a few miles to the west, a few blocks to the north.... ok, GITMO is better living conditions, but you can't get a decent BBQ sandwich there!
I welcome them to my neighborhood - there's 4 houses on my block that are empty now. Even if they only fill one, that's one less house being used for covert teenage sex and drug use or being decorated with spray paint as "turf". It puts a few people willing to work in my neighborhood, which is lacking a few, and could possibly even raise the value of my property in the long term as having an occupied house next door looks much better than having a burned out husk, because someone started a fire with a pipe or a cookstove. There's a few places nearby hiring ($8/hr, but it's a job), and in a few years, they could be chasing the American Dream at full speed.
So again, yes, move them into my neighborhood. The house payment + utilities is almost certainly less than what debt we're racking up on them in GITMO.
1.) The RIAA doesn't have anything to do with a movie. That's the MPAA, a completely different group of scumbags.
2.) He was downloading the movie in question in order to (ostensibly) watch it, as opposed to (again, ostensibly) diligently study for those exams. My give-a-fuck pretty much ran out after making that connection - at least where "I'm getting kicked out at exam time!" is concerned.
3.) I'm seeing a lot of comments regarding "due process" - this is a civil matter, through and through. While he is Down Under (the bus, looks like), I suspect tort laws work pretty much the same. He admits to downloading the film - no "allegedly" bullshit here, folks! Reminds me of that song... when charged with "Reckless Discharge of a Firearm" for shooting a jukebox, the defendant replied "Reckless, hell! I hit just where I was aiming!". Ahem. I digress.
Anyways... he admits to downloading the film - which the MPAA has contracted with MediaSentry to monitor. MediaSentry, again contracted to do so, sends a DMCA-style notice to the University. The University is contracted by the student to provide housing and an education. The student is obligated to meet certain terms of the contract, or risk breach. He didn't meet one of those terms - likely, a clause along the lines of "I agree not to use the University network to download or distribute copyrighted material for which I do not have permission to download, distribute, view, or listen to." They cancelled the contract - or a portion thereof. He's lucky he gets to take the exams, honestly.
These days, if you want to pirate, at least be smart about it. Use peerguardian and/or Tor and/or Freenet and/or IRC and/or FTP. Old school isn't monitored nearly as closely as this newfangled bittorrent stuff, but even with bittorrent, you can take some very simple measures to protect your identity. Otherwise, you might as well walk into a store, take what you want, and walk out without paying - smiling for the camera the whole time, no mask, no pillows, no wigs - and wonder how they found you when they come to arrest you.
I'm sure someone will posit that "pirating isn't stealing!". Most people make this argument by stating that copying a file isn't theft; you still have a copy. That's completely true. Piracy is theft because you didn't buy a license to listen/view the copyrighted work, not because you "stole" the work itself. It's an important distinction. If you don't like the price of the license and want it for free, you can either pirate it (theft of service), or wait until the copyright expires. Until copyright law is sane, piracy is easier - but it is still theft. Change the law, not the definition of theft.
Unless it's a Toyota... they have a policy that parts older than 5 yeas are no longer manufactured. This is what eventually led to my abandonement of my 1985 Toyota Celica GT coupe... after I'd already had to replace the differential with one from a '92 Supra (not a bolt-on, but a lower gear ratio, so much better accel, but top speed dropped to 108), I just couldn't find the parts I needed to restore the old bitch. Man, was she fun to drive, though...
I've been running Win7 for a while, and unless it's a very old application, compatibility is better than it is with Vista. I'm pretty happy with the upgrade, and it's faster than WinXP on the same machine (Phenom II quad core 1.87GHz, 8GB RAM, 750GB 7200RPM SATA-2 HDD).
What the hell. You do realize that by making an achievement system, people are going to post a comment now simply because they want to gain another achievement?
My one year old fell down stairs, split his lip, and I didn't have insurance.
The whole bill totaled $1300.
Instead of recommending that someone get out more, you should do so yourself and get to know how much regional hospitals charge - at least a ballpark. If I'd have gone to The Med, I could have easily racked up $5000. Instead, we went to Methodist - same distance from the apartment - because I knew it had better standards of care, and counter-intuitively, was less expensive.
C64 is right, though - if you take the $200/mo+ you spend on premiums and put it into a low-yield interest-bearing account, the most likely outcome is that you'll have the money to pay the bill outright when you need it, and still have more than a little left over.
Insurance companies make money because of careful analysis of statistics and probability tables. If it cost them more to pay your bills then what you were giving them, they'd be broke - and the "you" in this statement includes 83 year olds with multiple organ failure. Insurance is a scam, plain and simple.
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Got any cases you can cite? My employer absolutely refuses to pay more than $20 a day for on call - which is equivalent to less than 1 hour, if I were paid wages. Since I'm salaried (we all are), they state that by paying on-call at all, they're being nice! We're required to be near a computer when on-call - even take our laptops with us to restaurants and the like - but even comp time after a long night is rare.
The part that chaps my hide the most is that the opinion that "you're salaried, you don't get OT or on-call" is very prevalent in the Memphis market - jumping to another employer simply means trading the devil you know for the devil you don't. I work 10 - 20 hours OT a week; usually another 10 or more on the weeks I'm on-call. Because my title is "Systems Engineer" and my job duties involve putting together servers, they claim I'm ineligible for OT pay - I call bullshit, but since this job is feeding my family.... you know the idea.
I am fully aware that the oppressors have the upper hand because the oppressed do not rise up and refuse - but I've been unemployed before, sometimes for years, because I stood up and said "screw you, I won't be treated that way." Morals and ethics don't pay the bills.
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2 year old Compaq laptop, no problems whatsoever with 9.10 install. Took about 15 minutes from SD media. Replaced a WIn7 install, and the partitioner detected and defaulted to multiboot configuration - was rather nice, but I wanted to blow Win7 away and go full-bore anyways, and had no issues. Pretty happy with it so far.
I regularly replace the OS on this laptop, roughly once every month or so. Last month was Win7, before that a few days were spent with Haiku, and Fedora 10 before that. I honestly haven't had many issues with most of the OS/distros I put on the thing, except with wireless support.
Microsoft Works. ....and I just realized that you're using sarcasm to make a point. I, however, am dense, so the point didn't get through... doh!
Propellerheads Reason.
Autodesk Maya.
Mozilla Firefox.
Adobe Acrobat.
Intuit Quicken.
Oracle 8i.
If they ticketed jaywalkers here in Memphis, we'd actually have a decent budget surplus. :/
Most big trucks have them already, as well. It's damn near impossible to drive for a company nowadays and not have your every move (and several dozen engine "performance" metrics - like MPG) monitored and recorded. I've talked to a few drivers who were canned for not getting a target MPG - and almost all trucks on the road have hard and soft speed limiters set.
After a while, even when you own the truck, you accept it as part of the cost of doing business.
Because I can't buy a 26TB SSD drive, but I can put 52 500GB SSD drives in two CoreRAID chassis and mount them as one filesystem...as opposed to the 2 Sun storage arrays we use now, that are fiber attached and starting to get a little ... slow. SSDs would give us 10x the IO overhead.
I understand that you're making a joke. But your language failed. Sorry to geek out over it.
Not geeking out, Obsessive-compulsive Disorder.
I'll second this as I drove a truck and was an Owner-Operator for a while - had to get away from the keyboard. It didn't work.
Every mile driven through every state has to be reported to that state, and the taxes paid, on a monthly basis. You pay taxes at the pump, and those taxes are applied to the miles you travel on state roads. It doesn't matter if it's a highway or not - they assume that if you're driving in the state, it's a taxable highway, because 53' trailers aren't legal on many small roads and city streets. And what's a few cents for local travel? You do get a refund of taxes paid if the balance is positive, though. Each state has different taxes, though, so keeping track of it can be a pain - but if you do it right, and fuel in a high-tax state near the state line but put most of you miles in low tax states, you end up with a net positive at the end of the month - so it's more convenient.
Some states, most notably New York, charge both a road tax and a fuel tax. No road tax for toll roads - in theory, see the above for assumptions - but a fuel tax is still required. Double taxation? But wait, there's more!
There's also the Federal Heavy Vehicle Use Tax (HVUT). That's a $550/yr tax for road funding. Per vehicle. Even if it never sees the interstate.
There's also the 13% Federal Excise Tax for every purchase of a heavy truck or equipment for that truck - including an APU, for instance, which reduces diesel consumption and emissions by eliminating idling. That tax also is allocated to the highway department.
Toll roads charge per axle - so a tractor-trailer will pay 2.5 times more than a car to use the road. But with all this funding coming in, why would you need a toll road?
Bang on, man. Bang on.
I have an aunt who was in her third trimester when she was in a car accident, and Dolly was born soon after with no apparent damage... except she never grew up. Dolly passed away a few years ago, at the age of 33, and weighed about 80 pounds - she did grow "up", but much slower than normal - she was 20 before she weighed 40 pounds, and never spoke a single intelligible word. She never matured mentally beyond around 6 months, and was always in a crib at all the family gatherings. Thankfully, I never had to change her diaper.
There are some differences, as Dolly did seem to physically mature, just very slowly - but the doctors didn't seem to think it was that phenomenal, just brain damage from the accident. She did have the same odd development that Megan's eyes have - the wandering eye, so to speak. (As opposed to my wandering eye, which is entirely a different sort of affliction.) :)
Hell, I rent out a bedroom of my house (in Memphis) for $400/mo, including rent, utilities, cable TV, internet, washer/dryer, kitchen use, and access to my media library over the network. If you can't afford that...
While I presented many links to back up my claim, you have yet to do so. Nonetheless, USC 17 part 1008 - specifically says you can make copies (digital or analog) for noncommercial use.
/. making me learn things...
You were right. So there. Nyah.
Damned
RTFL, asshat.
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions...
You jumped right on that typo and turned it into the basis of your argument - and missed the point I was trying to make. So you don't miss it again:
You don't have the right to copy something for personal use, or to transfer to another type of media. You SHOULD - so instead of arguing with me about it, call a congresscritter.
Notice that "duplication is prohibited".
I also refer you to The Copyright Act of 1976, akaUS Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Paragraph 107, as amended by the DMCA:
Those are the rights granted by law. That's it. Criticism, comment, new reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Nowhere does it say "media transfer".
... holocube? Who knows.
I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be a right - but pointing out that it's NOT one currently. As long as people (who seem to think I'm blinded by the RIAA) continue to assume they have a right they don't, the RIAA has succeeded in blinding _them_, while continuing to charge for the same material on new media - cylinders to discs to reel-to-reel tape (4 track) to 8 track to cassette to CD to DVD to BluRay to
Check the DMCA - there is no "fair use" provision. Really.
appropriate response, that is.
Go to hell.
After enough well-qualified applicants refuse, they'll reconsider the requirement - probably after half the existing workforce quits because they're overworked.
As a Texan living in TN - and having lived in other states, as well - the simplest explanation is that like attracts like - and just as much as Austin is a blueberry in a giant cherry pie, there are other parts of the country where conservatives are the minority. With more granularity, different groups of people that have different objectives can still act as a loosely-unified whole.
Hey, it's not that bad where I'm at... a few miles to the west, a few blocks to the north.... ok, GITMO is better living conditions, but you can't get a decent BBQ sandwich there!
I welcome them to my neighborhood - there's 4 houses on my block that are empty now. Even if they only fill one, that's one less house being used for covert teenage sex and drug use or being decorated with spray paint as "turf". It puts a few people willing to work in my neighborhood, which is lacking a few, and could possibly even raise the value of my property in the long term as having an occupied house next door looks much better than having a burned out husk, because someone started a fire with a pipe or a cookstove. There's a few places nearby hiring ($8/hr, but it's a job), and in a few years, they could be chasing the American Dream at full speed. So again, yes, move them into my neighborhood. The house payment + utilities is almost certainly less than what debt we're racking up on them in GITMO.
1.) The RIAA doesn't have anything to do with a movie. That's the MPAA, a completely different group of scumbags.
2.) He was downloading the movie in question in order to (ostensibly) watch it, as opposed to (again, ostensibly) diligently study for those exams. My give-a-fuck pretty much ran out after making that connection - at least where "I'm getting kicked out at exam time!" is concerned.
3.) I'm seeing a lot of comments regarding "due process" - this is a civil matter, through and through. While he is Down Under (the bus, looks like), I suspect tort laws work pretty much the same. He admits to downloading the film - no "allegedly" bullshit here, folks! Reminds me of that song... when charged with "Reckless Discharge of a Firearm" for shooting a jukebox, the defendant replied "Reckless, hell! I hit just where I was aiming!". Ahem. I digress.
Anyways... he admits to downloading the film - which the MPAA has contracted with MediaSentry to monitor. MediaSentry, again contracted to do so, sends a DMCA-style notice to the University. The University is contracted by the student to provide housing and an education. The student is obligated to meet certain terms of the contract, or risk breach. He didn't meet one of those terms - likely, a clause along the lines of "I agree not to use the University network to download or distribute copyrighted material for which I do not have permission to download, distribute, view, or listen to." They cancelled the contract - or a portion thereof. He's lucky he gets to take the exams, honestly.
These days, if you want to pirate, at least be smart about it. Use peerguardian and/or Tor and/or Freenet and/or IRC and/or FTP. Old school isn't monitored nearly as closely as this newfangled bittorrent stuff, but even with bittorrent, you can take some very simple measures to protect your identity. Otherwise, you might as well walk into a store, take what you want, and walk out without paying - smiling for the camera the whole time, no mask, no pillows, no wigs - and wonder how they found you when they come to arrest you.
I'm sure someone will posit that "pirating isn't stealing!". Most people make this argument by stating that copying a file isn't theft; you still have a copy. That's completely true. Piracy is theft because you didn't buy a license to listen/view the copyrighted work, not because you "stole" the work itself. It's an important distinction. If you don't like the price of the license and want it for free, you can either pirate it (theft of service), or wait until the copyright expires. Until copyright law is sane, piracy is easier - but it is still theft. Change the law, not the definition of theft.
Got a link? Google says "no results".
Unless it's a Toyota... they have a policy that parts older than 5 yeas are no longer manufactured. This is what eventually led to my abandonement of my 1985 Toyota Celica GT coupe... after I'd already had to replace the differential with one from a '92 Supra (not a bolt-on, but a lower gear ratio, so much better accel, but top speed dropped to 108), I just couldn't find the parts I needed to restore the old bitch. Man, was she fun to drive, though...
I've been running Win7 for a while, and unless it's a very old application, compatibility is better than it is with Vista. I'm pretty happy with the upgrade, and it's faster than WinXP on the same machine (Phenom II quad core 1.87GHz, 8GB RAM, 750GB 7200RPM SATA-2 HDD).
What the hell. You do realize that by making an achievement system, people are going to post a comment now simply because they want to gain another achievement?
My one year old fell down stairs, split his lip, and I didn't have insurance.
The whole bill totaled $1300.
Instead of recommending that someone get out more, you should do so yourself and get to know how much regional hospitals charge - at least a ballpark. If I'd have gone to The Med, I could have easily racked up $5000. Instead, we went to Methodist - same distance from the apartment - because I knew it had better standards of care, and counter-intuitively, was less expensive.
C64 is right, though - if you take the $200/mo+ you spend on premiums and put it into a low-yield interest-bearing account, the most likely outcome is that you'll have the money to pay the bill outright when you need it, and still have more than a little left over.
Insurance companies make money because of careful analysis of statistics and probability tables. If it cost them more to pay your bills then what you were giving them, they'd be broke - and the "you" in this statement includes 83 year olds with multiple organ failure. Insurance is a scam, plain and simple.