Is there really something specific that you would like to say should be permissible under current harassment law that is not? No need to be vague. Personally, I do not believe people should have to put up with unsolicited sexual advances in the work place. They should not have to put up with nasty jokes. They should not have to put up with blatant sexism. Have you read many cases about sexual harassment from the real world? They are typically horrifyingly disgusting. Sorry, but I do not think employers should allow that sort of culture to form, under any circumstances. Do you feel otherwise?
Your logical prowess is astounding. There is a difference between "saying" and "doing". Either one can be wrong. Threatening to murder someone is wrong. There is legal precedent going back to the dawn of time on this one. A threat is not as bad as an action - duh - that does not mean it holds no moral content at all.
You are free to drive on the street... provided you avoid plowing through pedestrians. You are allowed to say whatever you want... provided you do not give everyone around you PTSD every time you vomit out disgusting threats that make them think you are going to murder them. C'mon this is clearly Being-A-Human 101.
I doubt that even selling the kit would be illegal. Smoke shops openly sell paraphernalia with the most thinly veiled excuses ever concocted. The "Coke Kit" isn't for cocaine; it's a patented armpit shaving system.
Now try that in black face in a nice neighborhood. It would pretty much be a Rodney King 2.0. The US is no better than the UK if you don't look the part of an upright citizen.
Still wrong. Let's say you get your 1 click per day (the optimum right?). If 80% of those are bots, then you just paid $10 for 2 clicks. $5/click sounds like a pretty raw deal to me.
...and worth every penny. I use a Kensington Slimblade at work. $75 and I will get thousands of hours out of it. Much cheaper than the carpel tunnel that can come from a regular mouse when you work at a computer all day.
"My team of about 10 white men (white IT guys) is expecting a new colleague: a black one. It is guaranteed that there will be remarks, racist jokes and insults with huge potential of getting worse. We already have blacks in teams who can somehow handle this (and deliver apropriate verbal slaps). How would you deal with this? We talked about some simple, fun ways — anyone who [acts inappropriately] will have to wear an embarassing tie, etc. — instead of swear jar, having a racist-remark jar and even fairly harsh punishments (like people losing their bonuses for the month or their extra vaccation days). I'd like to figure out a solution that would be effective, not call much attention to itself, and not be quickly abandoned."
This kind of work environment is completely unacceptable in the 21st century.
That is why you pull your team aside before anything happens and remind them "if you harass another employee then you will be fired". Someone who hears that and does it anyway deserves the boot. This has nothing to do with being harsh or being PC; it is about having a respectful work environment and not getting sued.
Just because the law says something is or is not appropriate/right/etc doesn't mean that's the case everywhere.
Tell that to the judge who is asking you to liquidate all of your company's assets to pay for the harassment penalties.
Fire employees who harass other employees. If you want to be slack about it then let them know the policy before they throw their job away. Harassment is unacc-fucking-eptable, end of story. Feel free to ignore this, however, and receive a massive law suit.
Yep, I do not even bother with Steam on my Mac (with the exception of Gary's Mod now and then). SC2 is pretty much the only game worth running at the moment and Battle.nets interface blows Steam's out of the water. That is ok with me though. SC2 dominates pretty much any game ever anyway, so it is not that big of a deal.
Not that many. There are ~250, with only ~5-10 big titles. On top of that, the Steam client is steaming pile of crap. I am running it on a top line iMac and just basic navigation is choppy and slow.
I hope they get it better than their Mac implementation. Barf. It is practically unusable on my quad core 3.1 Ghz iMac with almost full specs. Unresponsive to the point of making your hair fall out. I am not too impressed with their cross platform record at this point and I will have to see it to believe a stable Steam on a *nix system. Not to say that I would expect it to be easy or anything. Making a mature system cross platform is damn near impossible if you do not plan it from the very beginning. Dependencies, dependencies, dependencies. Most people outside the development world have no clue how difficult porting can be.
Probably possible legally. I highly doubt anyone would be able to pull it off, however, and have it be up to date, stable, etc. Maybe Linux can catch the next train with whatever comes after. DirectX is very mature at this point.
Ohhhhhmmmm.... This statement of peace and unity has been repeated as a mantra through out computing history...Ohhhhhmmmm.... Sidartha Torvalds will guide us by his warm light.... Ohhhhmmmm.....
Wow, I had no idea Rush Limbaugh was trolling here these days. Ask any informed feminist and they will give you a nearly identical definition to the one I provided. Go back to your troll hole please.
Document Shmockuments. By the time my minority report rig comes in I will ditch the dead trees once and for all. I almost already have. I keep a moleskine notebook on my desk and that is about it. As far as the coffee goes... I think this thing might need cup holders.
Those windows are not up to code in the US. I am not sure what the consequences of not being up to code actually are though. I too have had single paned windows for years (historic building).
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Is there really something specific that you would like to say should be permissible under current harassment law that is not? No need to be vague. Personally, I do not believe people should have to put up with unsolicited sexual advances in the work place. They should not have to put up with nasty jokes. They should not have to put up with blatant sexism. Have you read many cases about sexual harassment from the real world? They are typically horrifyingly disgusting. Sorry, but I do not think employers should allow that sort of culture to form, under any circumstances. Do you feel otherwise?
Your logical prowess is astounding. There is a difference between "saying" and "doing". Either one can be wrong. Threatening to murder someone is wrong. There is legal precedent going back to the dawn of time on this one. A threat is not as bad as an action - duh - that does not mean it holds no moral content at all.
Finally! I will not have to mute the 10 year olds in BF3 anymore!
You are free to drive on the street... provided you avoid plowing through pedestrians. You are allowed to say whatever you want... provided you do not give everyone around you PTSD every time you vomit out disgusting threats that make them think you are going to murder them. C'mon this is clearly Being-A-Human 101.
Wow, who the hell are you friends with? Michael Meyers!?
I doubt that even selling the kit would be illegal. Smoke shops openly sell paraphernalia with the most thinly veiled excuses ever concocted. The "Coke Kit" isn't for cocaine; it's a patented armpit shaving system.
Now try that in black face in a nice neighborhood. It would pretty much be a Rodney King 2.0. The US is no better than the UK if you don't look the part of an upright citizen.
Arduino for sure... or Netduino if he swings that way.
Still wrong. Let's say you get your 1 click per day (the optimum right?). If 80% of those are bots, then you just paid $10 for 2 clicks. $5/click sounds like a pretty raw deal to me.
I know. Isn't it ironic?
...and worth every penny. I use a Kensington Slimblade at work. $75 and I will get thousands of hours out of it. Much cheaper than the carpel tunnel that can come from a regular mouse when you work at a computer all day.
"My team of about 10 white men (white IT guys) is expecting a new colleague: a black one. It is guaranteed that there will be remarks, racist jokes and insults with huge potential of getting worse. We already have blacks in teams who can somehow handle this (and deliver apropriate verbal slaps). How would you deal with this? We talked about some simple, fun ways — anyone who [acts inappropriately] will have to wear an embarassing tie, etc. — instead of swear jar, having a racist-remark jar and even fairly harsh punishments (like people losing their bonuses for the month or their extra vaccation days). I'd like to figure out a solution that would be effective, not call much attention to itself, and not be quickly abandoned."
This kind of work environment is completely unacceptable in the 21st century.
Just because the law says something is or is not appropriate/right/etc doesn't mean that's the case everywhere.
Tell that to the judge who is asking you to liquidate all of your company's assets to pay for the harassment penalties.
Fire employees who harass other employees. If you want to be slack about it then let them know the policy before they throw their job away. Harassment is unacc-fucking-eptable, end of story. Feel free to ignore this, however, and receive a massive law suit.
Yep, I do not even bother with Steam on my Mac (with the exception of Gary's Mod now and then). SC2 is pretty much the only game worth running at the moment and Battle.nets interface blows Steam's out of the water. That is ok with me though. SC2 dominates pretty much any game ever anyway, so it is not that big of a deal.
Not that many. There are ~250, with only ~5-10 big titles. On top of that, the Steam client is steaming pile of crap. I am running it on a top line iMac and just basic navigation is choppy and slow.
Windows 9? Don't you mean Winix? I hear there is a port on the way. Everyone is jumping ship.
.Doc has to be one of the most hideous file formats of all time.
I am still hoping that Windows 8 will drop mouse and touch support entirely. Trackballs only please.
I hope they get it better than their Mac implementation. Barf. It is practically unusable on my quad core 3.1 Ghz iMac with almost full specs. Unresponsive to the point of making your hair fall out. I am not too impressed with their cross platform record at this point and I will have to see it to believe a stable Steam on a *nix system. Not to say that I would expect it to be easy or anything. Making a mature system cross platform is damn near impossible if you do not plan it from the very beginning. Dependencies, dependencies, dependencies. Most people outside the development world have no clue how difficult porting can be.
Probably possible legally. I highly doubt anyone would be able to pull it off, however, and have it be up to date, stable, etc. Maybe Linux can catch the next train with whatever comes after. DirectX is very mature at this point.
Ohhhhhmmmm.... This statement of peace and unity has been repeated as a mantra through out computing history...Ohhhhhmmmm.... Sidartha Torvalds will guide us by his warm light.... Ohhhhmmmm.....
Wow, I had no idea Rush Limbaugh was trolling here these days. Ask any informed feminist and they will give you a nearly identical definition to the one I provided. Go back to your troll hole please.
Document Shmockuments. By the time my minority report rig comes in I will ditch the dead trees once and for all. I almost already have. I keep a moleskine notebook on my desk and that is about it. As far as the coffee goes... I think this thing might need cup holders.
Those windows are not up to code in the US. I am not sure what the consequences of not being up to code actually are though. I too have had single paned windows for years (historic building).