You could arrange simultaneous removal of trade barriers if you like, but you can't be doing the/exact same thing/ the other guy is and crying about it.
The currency fluctuations don't even touch the real difference in pricing. Check out the price difference in shit like business software that doesn't even get a box shipped.
Uber ignores the law, so yeah, it doesn't really affect them greatly in the Western World. OTOH in China they don't put up with that, they don't fine companies less than they profit by ignoring the law, they kill their officers.
My entire point was about fairness, so your point that fairness is irrelevant is out of scope of this thread.
Yeah, the whole idea of letting lawyers decide what a document means is also a Western conceit. Would you really be happier if there were terms as clear as in a standard employment contract, which normally include things like "other duties as directed"? Or perhaps if China was a "right to do business" country, and could terminate their relationship with you at any time?
Perhaps they could just paraphrase the whole thing as "we reserve the right to use binding arbitration to settle any dispute (and we're the arbiters, or at the very least we have an incredibly powerful position compared to you)"?
The funny part is the article starts out with Uber, who should be being thrashed by the US for unfair business practices (deliberately running at a loss to pervert the market and force their competitors out of business).
The idea that Western business is "fair" is about as sensible as Bill O'Reilly's defence of slave ownership.
Nope, I know all that. I also know that China has no where to go but it's burgeoning consumer economy and they're going to protect that like the US protects "Artists" now and Farmers historically.
Get back to me when there's one price for a book, CD, DVD or Video game even in the limited scope of the Western World, or when the US allows free import to the USA of everything produced there.
I'm not saying I agree with discretionary pricing or protectionism per se, but for the US to cry about it is about as ridiculous a thing I can think of.
They seemed fine to me until they bought Maxtor in 2006; then you never knew what you were going to get, a Maxtor w/ a Seagate badge or a HDD that might have less than a 20% annual failure rate, in the first year.
I'd guess since then; they closed all the Seagate factories and run exclusively from the cheaper Maxtor facilities. (all of that is a guess, but MBAs always think reducing cost > * so probably in the ballpark).
Google, LinkedIN, Facebook, Amazon, many many many others that won't allow you to create an account without one, particularly as part of shipping information.
To be fair, I cancelled mine so I can resubscribe in Australia. Since they have no option of moving geographies, I'd been maintaining my original account at fluctuating exchange rates mostly from inertia, partly from the discount legacy rate being about the same or less....
Even with the "limited Australian" library, between Netflix and Stan I'm never at a loss of "something" to watch. Sure, some of it is reruns, but any rerun of a good show is better than Mastertwat or Australia's Next Top Eating Disorder, or whatever other garbage they're shitting out on television these days, and no ads is just gravy.
The dealer yes, how is he the car company? The ISP knows you're an adult, they have a signed contract with you, like the dealer does. I never signed anything with Mazda for my last car.
Is this some strange American thing where all the cars are owned by the car company and you only purchase the right to use them?
Yeah, where's the verification bill requiring that car companies prove people have a driver's licence before operating their vehicles? One of these leads to wanking, the other leads to death....
Minnesota is an employment "at will" state. An employee can quit for any reason; an employer can fire any employee for any reason as long as that reason is not illegal, such as discrimination based on race, creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
Notice of separation No notice of separation is required by law, by either party, upon separation of an employee for any reason. Courtesy and time to collect accrued benefits are reasons why notice is given.
Giving you 2 weeks notice 2 weeks away from your vacation would change all that, how?
If your leave was rescinded because someone left, then it would be rescinded if someone was injured/sick as well.
If your team is that fragile, invest in some travel insurance. If you were posting all over Facebook and LinkedIn about failing to manage risk I'd think you were the jackass.
If it's "at will" it's at will, not "oh, except you have to pay 2 weeks".
As others said, employers lobbied for these provisions because they wanted to avoid paying notice.
There's nothing to stop them, when you graciously give 2 weeks notice, not to bother coming in tomorrow/leave now/whatever and no reason they have to pay you anything. And it/might/ be because they had a shitty commute that morning and are in a bad mood.
Depends how hand to mouth you are, but between losing 2 weeks pay and upsetting someone that wrote into a contract the right to fire you at will, I'm gonna side with myself.
Mmm depends, last time I looked Pandora was only streaming 96kbps for free and you had ads, annoyingly repetitive ads, really annoying, and really really repetitive, really. Repetitive and annoying. As I recall.
Personally I won't listen to 96kbps for long, it's just too flat and horrible, like AM radio.
I will use these kind of services to find something to go buy... then I'll rip it at a decent bit-rate and listen to that. That the RIAA etc want anyone to pay for providing infrastructure to advertise their wares to the general public is beyond my ken.
I could understand if they wanted to limit the maximum bit-rate say, but pay because it's delivered over wire instead of air? It's complete nonsense, and they're just hurting themselves. Wire even generates more sales since "real" radio stations don't back announce any more and not all car radios display the song name (and they sure don't let me check what the previous song was).
Hey, I think it's ridiculous that men will do a cute girl's work for her from grade school through to menopause, but that also feeds in to their general technical incompetence. Given I've know some smart attractive women, I assume it's not entirely the men's fault that most choose to be coddled by the patriarchy.
I have no doubt at all however, that a completely segregated female population would out perform a completely segregated male one. But I still think the pretty ones would be having their work done by the butch ones (in both societies).
Those cameras had film in them, if you're ranting on about camera obscura that dates back 2400 years and is where the name camera comes from, but is/not/ a camera.
I pity you and your lack of the ability to read outside of Slashdot.
Analyzing the video stream for the do-not-film IR signal is non-trivial
What analysis? He's talking about an IR filter over the lens, which is a hardware solution requiring no CPU cycles at all.
While the sensor can, apparently, detect IR, perhaps even record it, you don't see it in the playback so it really doesn't matter if that spectrum is blocked entirely from the camera.
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I think it's supposed to read, "Wild abuse allegations taint Indiegogo funded, motorcycle helmet maker, Skully"
Unless they make Indiegogo helmets?
You could arrange simultaneous removal of trade barriers if you like, but you can't be doing the /exact same thing/ the other guy is and crying about it.
The currency fluctuations don't even touch the real difference in pricing. Check out the price difference in shit like business software that doesn't even get a box shipped.
Uber ignores the law, so yeah, it doesn't really affect them greatly in the Western World. OTOH in China they don't put up with that, they don't fine companies less than they profit by ignoring the law, they kill their officers.
My entire point was about fairness, so your point that fairness is irrelevant is out of scope of this thread.
Yeah, the whole idea of letting lawyers decide what a document means is also a Western conceit. Would you really be happier if there were terms as clear as in a standard employment contract, which normally include things like "other duties as directed"? Or perhaps if China was a "right to do business" country, and could terminate their relationship with you at any time?
Perhaps they could just paraphrase the whole thing as "we reserve the right to use binding arbitration to settle any dispute (and we're the arbiters, or at the very least we have an incredibly powerful position compared to you)"?
The funny part is the article starts out with Uber, who should be being thrashed by the US for unfair business practices (deliberately running at a loss to pervert the market and force their competitors out of business).
The idea that Western business is "fair" is about as sensible as Bill O'Reilly's defence of slave ownership.
Nope, I know all that. I also know that China has no where to go but it's burgeoning consumer economy and they're going to protect that like the US protects "Artists" now and Farmers historically.
Get back to me when there's one price for a book, CD, DVD or Video game even in the limited scope of the Western World, or when the US allows free import to the USA of everything produced there.
I'm not saying I agree with discretionary pricing or protectionism per se, but for the US to cry about it is about as ridiculous a thing I can think of.
Reference any "free trade" agreement the US has ever signed. When you're the biggest market you get to set the rules.
America wouldn't know fair if it kicked them in the balls, what you're actually seeing is when you become number 2.
Number 1 gets to decide what's fair.
They seemed fine to me until they bought Maxtor in 2006; then you never knew what you were going to get, a Maxtor w/ a Seagate badge or a HDD that might have less than a 20% annual failure rate, in the first year.
I'd guess since then; they closed all the Seagate factories and run exclusively from the cheaper Maxtor facilities. (all of that is a guess, but MBAs always think reducing cost > * so probably in the ballpark).
Google, LinkedIN, Facebook, Amazon, many many many others that won't allow you to create an account without one, particularly as part of shipping information.
I figured it would save the reporters hours of scrubbing the crazy off at the end of each day.
To be fair, I cancelled mine so I can resubscribe in Australia. Since they have no option of moving geographies, I'd been maintaining my original account at fluctuating exchange rates mostly from inertia, partly from the discount legacy rate being about the same or less....
Even with the "limited Australian" library, between Netflix and Stan I'm never at a loss of "something" to watch. Sure, some of it is reruns, but any rerun of a good show is better than Mastertwat or Australia's Next Top Eating Disorder, or whatever other garbage they're shitting out on television these days, and no ads is just gravy.
The dealer yes, how is he the car company? The ISP knows you're an adult, they have a signed contract with you, like the dealer does. I never signed anything with Mazda for my last car.
Is this some strange American thing where all the cars are owned by the car company and you only purchase the right to use them?
Yeah, where's the verification bill requiring that car companies prove people have a driver's licence before operating their vehicles? One of these leads to wanking, the other leads to death....
Fair enough, I certainly wouldn't advise quitting if you don't have somewhere to go...
Just as likely true:
http://www.dli.mn.gov/ls/Termi...
Minnesota is an employment "at will" state. An employee can quit for any reason; an employer can fire any employee for any reason as long as that reason is not illegal, such as discrimination based on race, creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
Notice of separation
No notice of separation is required by law, by either party, upon separation of an employee for any reason. Courtesy and time to collect accrued benefits are reasons why notice is given.
Giving you 2 weeks notice 2 weeks away from your vacation would change all that, how?
If your leave was rescinded because someone left, then it would be rescinded if someone was injured/sick as well.
If your team is that fragile, invest in some travel insurance. If you were posting all over Facebook and LinkedIn about failing to manage risk I'd think you were the jackass.
If it's "at will" it's at will, not "oh, except you have to pay 2 weeks".
As others said, employers lobbied for these provisions because they wanted to avoid paying notice.
There's nothing to stop them, when you graciously give 2 weeks notice, not to bother coming in tomorrow/leave now/whatever and no reason they have to pay you anything. And it /might/ be because they had a shitty commute that morning and are in a bad mood.
Depends how hand to mouth you are, but between losing 2 weeks pay and upsetting someone that wrote into a contract the right to fire you at will, I'm gonna side with myself.
Accuracy isn't really required here.
-- Colonel Paul Tibbets
Mmm depends, last time I looked Pandora was only streaming 96kbps for free and you had ads, annoyingly repetitive ads, really annoying, and really really repetitive, really. Repetitive and annoying. As I recall.
Personally I won't listen to 96kbps for long, it's just too flat and horrible, like AM radio.
I will use these kind of services to find something to go buy... then I'll rip it at a decent bit-rate and listen to that. That the RIAA etc want anyone to pay for providing infrastructure to advertise their wares to the general public is beyond my ken.
I could understand if they wanted to limit the maximum bit-rate say, but pay because it's delivered over wire instead of air? It's complete nonsense, and they're just hurting themselves. Wire even generates more sales since "real" radio stations don't back announce any more and not all car radios display the song name (and they sure don't let me check what the previous song was).
Hey, I think it's ridiculous that men will do a cute girl's work for her from grade school through to menopause, but that also feeds in to their general technical incompetence. Given I've know some smart attractive women, I assume it's not entirely the men's fault that most choose to be coddled by the patriarchy.
I have no doubt at all however, that a completely segregated female population would out perform a completely segregated male one. But I still think the pretty ones would be having their work done by the butch ones (in both societies).
Those cameras had film in them, if you're ranting on about camera obscura that dates back 2400 years and is where the name camera comes from, but is /not/ a camera.
I pity you and your lack of the ability to read outside of Slashdot.
Yeah, personalised, by Google:
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
camera1
kam()r/
noun
a device for recording visual images in the form of photographs, film, or video signals.
If there is no recording there is no camera, dipshit.
A pinhole camera has a sheet of film inside the box, or it's not a camera. Is a magnifying glass a camera on your planet?
Analyzing the video stream for the do-not-film IR signal is non-trivial
What analysis? He's talking about an IR filter over the lens, which is a hardware solution requiring no CPU cycles at all.
While the sensor can, apparently, detect IR, perhaps even record it, you don't see it in the playback so it really doesn't matter if that spectrum is blocked entirely from the camera.
Don't know if trolling or stupid...
His point is admittedly pedantry, but you don't have one at all.
I'll wait here while you google define:camera and clarify your trolling status.