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  1. It might apply to employee reviews, but only in the context if your recording them getting evidence of unfair labor practices. This ruling is all about labor relations, unionization, etc. From page 3 of the actual decision: " Such protected conduct may include, for example, recording images of protected picketing, documenting unsafe workplace equipment or hazardous working conditions, documenting and publicizing discussions about terms and conditions of employment, documenting inconsistent application of employer rules, or recording evidence to preserve it for later use in administrative or judicial forums in employment-related actions"

  2. Because this is about Section 7 activities, which is about unions. Unions are a form of socialistic governance. Even actual Marxist socialist claim this. I personally see that unions are needed to push back against corporate worker rights violations, and without them there would be no overtime, we'd still have child labor, and a whole host of what amounts to corporate slavery. No union in the USA is advocating any socialistic overthrow of the government anymore; my citation is from 1936. And of course not all socialism is Marxist in nature, nor is it authoritarianism automatically. I'm a Sanders supporter, and I know his ideas are not in any way Marxist. But still, there is a very real historical joining here.

  3. Re:Actually it's more complicated. on Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the actual decision itself references "protected Section 7 activities" and "unprotected activities". They make a very distinct difference between what is protected and what still isn't protected.

  4. Asteroid Apophis on NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    IMHO, this is why the push for NASA to develop these techs. One of the SLS 's primary missions is their Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission; the conspiracy theorist in me says that NASA is doing risk-mitigation just in case Apophis hits the keyhole in 2029.

  5. Re:How interested is Apple in selling stuff in Chi on China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    " Good luck buying enough rare earth elements for Your electronics, because we control 97% of worlds market for them." Too bad you posted as AC, because I think this is actually the biggest "risk" in general, and not just because of this recent encryption issue. All of our modern electronics needs these, the US shut down it's major rare earth mine at Mountain Pass, CA several years ago. We could try to recycle more phones...but once again most recycling centers are also over in China. Even if we found a new amazing rare earths deposit it takes years to build a mine. The most abundant source we've found so far is probably the Moon, but it will probably be another 25-50 years before we have a functioning mining colony there if ever.

  6. Re:Try offering service to your entire... on Cable Providers Still Have No Answer For Netflix As Cord-cutting Accelerates (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. As far as I can tell, unless your next door to the telco CO, no DSL can get up the current standard. AT&T's stalling on fiber is catching up to them; I'm waiting for a class-action lawsuit for false advertising "broadband" since it's not.

  7. Re:Walls are free? on Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Walls are free? on Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    well, as long as I'm one of the few that actually get a heroin-locked replicator, then I'm totally cool with that. Heroin is pretty expensive, and easy to move. In this case, there has got to be some bribes not spent to the correct TRAI people, and they're throwing a fit. Seems to be an unenforceable threat, since India has no Net Neutrality laws...not sure why Reliance actually backed down here.

  9. Net Neutrality in India? on Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    Quite bizarre, especially since there seems to be no actual Net Neutrality laws in India. They've been talking about it recently quite a bit, yet TRAI has only a draft that they just recently stopped taking comments on. I'm surprised Reliance Communications didn't tell the TRAI to go shove off until the Indian Parliament actually has a law on the books. This would never happen in the US, just imagine AT&T actually stopping to do anything just because there MIGHT soon be a law against it.

  10. Or having billions, and dreaming of nuking Mars....

  11. The Lottery is a tax on people who don't understand statistics.

  12. Re:Long term disposal strategy? on Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, probably the main driver of them being disposed will be older batteries being replaced by newer tech. Even Musk admits his factory might be outdated by the time it starts production lol.

  13. Re:Bullshit on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil · · Score: 1

    IM+ does, just not the "free version". But it's only $5, and the OTR seems to work pretty well...but both parties must have a client that supports it.

  14. Re:The first three letters of USPTO are UPS... on USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems (uspto.gov) · · Score: 1

    apparently, since he's also using up 20-30 UPS batteries within two years...since they only cost $20-$30, and his math is "$600 worth of replacement UPS batteries"

  15. Re:The first three letters of USPTO are UPS... on USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems (uspto.gov) · · Score: 1

    $600? Just how long do you keep your TVs around? I can buy a name-brand Power Sonic battery through a non-ebay company for under $20, with free shipping. How are you going through 30 batteries over the life of your TV? Even at three years per battery, that means your using the same TV for 90 years?!? Per your stated TV lifetime, you'd have to be replacing the battery almost every week.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil · · Score: 1

    I too use various clients, just need them to support OTR encryption. Then I'm not tied to any particular technology...like with IM+, there are a dozen different chats to use with OTR, good luck following my conversations that jump across various providers.

  17. Re:Misleading on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil · · Score: 1

    sounds like Whatsapp needs to start having per-client port jumping built-in.

  18. Re:Don't understand Facebook's view on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil · · Score: 1

    well, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA is actively helping Brazil stop Whatsapp.

  19. Re:Connection is obscure on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil · · Score: 1

    The US is moving towards a corporate fascism, with the elite and corps running both parties, introducing their own legislation in all levels (local, state federal) (AKA ALEC), compromising elections (aka Diebold) . Between the two, which sounds better...a corporate fascism or socialist fascism?

  20. Re:Long term disposal strategy? on Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The first return of a Google search "tesla plans recycling batteries" actually answers your question.. It has the exact steps of their recycling program, and even has pictures.

  21. Re:Bernie Sanders vs. Hugo Chavez on Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny, there's no actual link to this "old article" yet you are quoting directly from it. Where is this article actually at? Someone's personal blog, a text file you wrote yourself, Bill O'Rielly off Fox News? And perhaps seeing how the banks practially destroyed the housing market with fraudulent morgages, perhaps they do need to be nationalized.

  22. Re:Bernie Sanders vs. Hugo Chavez on Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So...your list of similarities of the two are? Instead of just making a broad statement and expecting everyone else to disprove it; perhaps a better path would be to actually list out the similarities you see and defend them? That's how actual debates are done; what your doing is Trump politics.

  23. Unless your a hedge fund manager, you shouldn't have much of a problem penalizing the people who US taxpayers had to spend BILLIONS on to already bail out once...we already handed them a huge amount of our tax money due to their obscene speculation; a tax on this is not so much of a tax as getting them to pay the nation back for saving their asses. And perhaps such a tax would cause them to hesitate before going off and crashing our economy again.

  24. Sanders is pulling in many Republicans who would have been called "Progressive Republicans" 50-60 years ago. If you read over the Republican Party Platform of 1956, you'll see many similarities between Sanders and Eisenhower, and the more knowledgeable Republicans see it too. Sadly, most people these days have no idea there ever was a "progressive Republican platform" and even when shown such proof they have no response because they've been told that "progressive" is a bad thing. The most interesting part, to me, is:

    On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."

    Our great President Dwight D. Eisenhower has counseled us further: "In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative."

  25. If Sanders doesn't get the nomination, I'm voting for Trump, but only because at that point I "just want to watch the world burn".