or even, hey, the summary also says the magellen is "21 feet" in direct comparison to the Hubble's 8. so the entire point of the thread is somewhat inflated to start with.
my concern wasnt along those lines. as you say, thats blatantly illegal.i cant really think a company would be so stupid (but then ive been surprised before) as to pressure people to simply ignore best safety practices. the penalties are simply too huge.
my thinking was more along what the article was saying, where workers are working long hours and from fatigue either forgetting to clip on, or clipping on improperly. i mean i understand contracts and deadlines, and the realities therein. so im kinda thinking what are the companies policies about fatigue/hours worked? is there pressure to work longer hours? or are employees simply choosing themselves to work longer hours?
From TFA: "Constantly attaching and reattaching a safety harness as climbers move about the tower can cut into speed." and "One project manager said crews are working 12- or 16-hour days and, when they get tired, forget to clip on safety lines or clip them on improperly."
So then the important question is whether the company is inducing this, or are the workers bringing on themselves? What I mean is, what are the comapnies policies? Are they good policies? Are they being ignored by workers trying to get more hours (for a bigger paycheck)? Do the companies even adress such things as maximum hours worked for fear of fatigue/safety? Is there pressure from the company to work more hours with fewer people?
I bring up the workers cause at my company there are people who wouldn't hesitate to work 16 hours days for the bigger check, and have actively fought agaisnt hiring more people because it would cut into their overtime as it is. luckily fatigue here isnt really going to be fatal; just cuts into profits.
Personally, if it's my life on the line, I got no interest in meeting the big guy this early in my existence. My debts arent so bad that I need to risk my life to pay them off. And when I interviewed for a job working on wind turbines (that I ended up turning down the offer for when it came) one of my first questions was about their safety policies, along the lines of the questions i posed above.
we can say that it shouldnt be this way, but reality is what it is. and this is going to hurt his credibility and only give his detractors further ammunition (relevent or not, character assassination is a very effective thing). it is a poor decision on his part, not that the media isnt complicit in helping him dig deeper by blasting it around on the front page.
personally, i dont care either if he wants to be Chelsea now.
he did what he did (wrongly imo), he got sentenced (too much imo), and his personal melodrama should be over now while we try to handle the ramifications of what he revealed (of course there's still appeals and such in the future).
when you get the Big Chicken Dinner you become flat out ineligible for something like 45% of all jobs in the US. thats just the ones where its basically flat out regulated because they have ties or are involved with the government in some way. then theres the corproations where HR is going to see it say "nope", thats probably another 30-35%.
The best options for people with the BCD basically boils down to small companies or friends without government ties/contracts, or entrepenaurship (which is itself hard, cause you gotta get customers, and some of them (such as against the governemnt and some big corps) have rules against who they will source from).
the dishonorable discharge is no joke and very real burden to -anyone- who gets one.
shocking as it may be to you, part of humor is taking controversial things and making fun of them. rape has become a sacred cow, and that cow not only needs to be kicked from time to time, but put on a spit and roasted (pun intended!)
Was the American Revolution really a revolution or a secession?
Revolution in the third person, secession in the first. Or as was stated historically (by Franklin?): "Revolution is always illegal in the third person, but necessary in the first."
Thing is this doesnt require repeal of the Patriot Act. The NSA falls squarely under the Executive Branch, and he could easily simply order the massive surveillence operations to cease. He hasn't.
all this assumes a random public selection moderations system like slashdots. they could just as easily hire actual permanent moderators, or even a hybrid system where the public up/downs things generally, but can also flag things (trolls, spam, etc) for review by the permanent mods.
why not? his area of expertise is only in one facet of biology. cant expect everyone to know everything. be like refusing to use a waste water engineer who doesnt understand geological engineering.
Besides, there's no need for real bodies, within 20 years mainstream porn will probably be entirely simulation, something like Hatsune Miku. User gets to direct the action, studios will make money on the upgrades like outfits, and won't have to pay the actress except a one time scanning fee. Studios will also be able to keep "actresses" exclusive and build brand name stars like comic books.
Oh it's not that bad. And it's a good sight better than the yearly tornado season I live with now. Actually I'd love to retire to a small farm. In NZ, or some other such place. Such as: http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0908/canterbury_plains_2.jpg And NZ is at the top of the list because it's got all the climates I like and enjoy, and in such a small area, so can easily get to em. And it's got interesting critters.
all joking aside a reasonable transfer to his/her surviving spouse (not ex) or underage children would be a reasonable exception, but just about the only one.
thats not what the ac has been saying. someones said the roof shouldnt give, and AC should it *should* ("nothing, nothing should ever be rigid on a car") which is patently wrong. and you speaking of "I'm assuming in your zeal to post something negative on Slashdot that you misread the original post, and I'm not wasting time pointing this out to someone just trolling..." is just irony, delicious irony.
the passenger compartment is NOT a crumple zone or energy absorber. the passenger compartment is very very rigid/strong. all the crumple zones are -outside- the passenger compartment. the compartment itself cannot experience any deformation (ideally) because that leads to deformation of people's bodies...usually a Very Bad Thing. speaking specifically of the roof (which the ac was) the roof cannot "aborb" anything; and its not designed to. its designed to suport the weight of the car, plus some, and transfer it to the roll bars/pillars and not crush skulls.
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or even, hey, the summary also says the magellen is "21 feet" in direct comparison to the Hubble's 8. so the entire point of the thread is somewhat inflated to start with.
because taking the 0.09 seconds of mental math it takes to convert 6.5 into "~20ft" (or vice versa if so inclined) is too hard.
my concern wasnt along those lines. as you say, thats blatantly illegal.i cant really think a company would be so stupid (but then ive been surprised before) as to pressure people to simply ignore best safety practices. the penalties are simply too huge.
my thinking was more along what the article was saying, where workers are working long hours and from fatigue either forgetting to clip on, or clipping on improperly. i mean i understand contracts and deadlines, and the realities therein. so im kinda thinking what are the companies policies about fatigue/hours worked? is there pressure to work longer hours? or are employees simply choosing themselves to work longer hours?
...there for a reason.
From TFA: "Constantly attaching and reattaching a safety harness as climbers move about the tower can cut into speed." and "One project manager said crews are working 12- or 16-hour days and, when they get tired, forget to clip on safety lines or clip them on improperly."
So then the important question is whether the company is inducing this, or are the workers bringing on themselves? What I mean is, what are the comapnies policies? Are they good policies? Are they being ignored by workers trying to get more hours (for a bigger paycheck)? Do the companies even adress such things as maximum hours worked for fear of fatigue/safety? Is there pressure from the company to work more hours with fewer people?
I bring up the workers cause at my company there are people who wouldn't hesitate to work 16 hours days for the bigger check, and have actively fought agaisnt hiring more people because it would cut into their overtime as it is. luckily fatigue here isnt really going to be fatal; just cuts into profits.
Personally, if it's my life on the line, I got no interest in meeting the big guy this early in my existence. My debts arent so bad that I need to risk my life to pay them off. And when I interviewed for a job working on wind turbines (that I ended up turning down the offer for when it came) one of my first questions was about their safety policies, along the lines of the questions i posed above.
we can say that it shouldnt be this way, but reality is what it is. and this is going to hurt his credibility and only give his detractors further ammunition (relevent or not, character assassination is a very effective thing). it is a poor decision on his part, not that the media isnt complicit in helping him dig deeper by blasting it around on the front page.
personally, i dont care either if he wants to be Chelsea now.
he did what he did (wrongly imo), he got sentenced (too much imo), and his personal melodrama should be over now while we try to handle the ramifications of what he revealed (of course there's still appeals and such in the future).
when you get the Big Chicken Dinner you become flat out ineligible for something like 45% of all jobs in the US. thats just the ones where its basically flat out regulated because they have ties or are involved with the government in some way. then theres the corproations where HR is going to see it say "nope", thats probably another 30-35%.
The best options for people with the BCD basically boils down to small companies or friends without government ties/contracts, or entrepenaurship (which is itself hard, cause you gotta get customers, and some of them (such as against the governemnt and some big corps) have rules against who they will source from).
the dishonorable discharge is no joke and very real burden to -anyone- who gets one.
shocking as it may be to you, part of humor is taking controversial things and making fun of them. rape has become a sacred cow, and that cow not only needs to be kicked from time to time, but put on a spit and roasted (pun intended!)
mod up for the obscure Sean Connery flick reference! (i like it too)
the author of that article is an idiot.
Was the American Revolution really a revolution or a secession?
Revolution in the third person, secession in the first.
Or as was stated historically (by Franklin?): "Revolution is always illegal in the third person, but necessary in the first."
Thing is this doesnt require repeal of the Patriot Act. The NSA falls squarely under the Executive Branch, and he could easily simply order the massive surveillence operations to cease. He hasn't.
Do you really think he found out about every detail of this garbage on Day One?
On Day One? Maybe not.
Within the first week or so during his "Welcome to the Presidency" Briefings? Yes, absolutely.
all this assumes a random public selection moderations system like slashdots. they could just as easily hire actual permanent moderators, or even a hybrid system where the public up/downs things generally, but can also flag things (trolls, spam, etc) for review by the permanent mods.
why not? his area of expertise is only in one facet of biology. cant expect everyone to know everything. be like refusing to use a waste water engineer who doesnt understand geological engineering.
Besides, there's no need for real bodies, within 20 years mainstream porn will probably be entirely simulation, something like Hatsune Miku. User gets to direct the action, studios will make money on the upgrades like outfits, and won't have to pay the actress except a one time scanning fee. Studios will also be able to keep "actresses" exclusive and build brand name stars like comic books.
That would be the death of porn.
i was thinking "great...5 billion more people to make useless "youre teh ghey", "first", and other sundry troll postings"
Oh it's not that bad. And it's a good sight better than the yearly tornado season I live with now.
Actually I'd love to retire to a small farm. In NZ, or some other such place. Such as: http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0908/canterbury_plains_2.jpg
And NZ is at the top of the list because it's got all the climates I like and enjoy, and in such a small area, so can easily get to em. And it's got interesting critters.
that a pretty pathetic troll attempt
*removes New Zealand from Top 5 places I want to retire to*
youre body doesnt "decide" to poop out calories. who the hell taught you biology?
so the dog and cat food is filled with sugar huh?
the person who killed him.
all joking aside a reasonable transfer to his/her surviving spouse (not ex) or underage children would be a reasonable exception, but just about the only one.
thank you. for that i bequeth you my toothbrush shiv
ya now im confused whos replying to what now.
There was "When you roll the thing over, you want it to be rigid so that it doesn't bend to intersect with your empty skull."
To which AC said: "Wrong. Nothing should ever be rigid on a car ever. Otherwise the full force of the impact get transferred to your brain."
And when speaking of the roof of the car, the AC is wrong.
thats not what the ac has been saying. someones said the roof shouldnt give, and AC should it *should* ("nothing, nothing should ever be rigid on a car") which is patently wrong. and you speaking of "I'm assuming in your zeal to post something negative on Slashdot that you misread the original post, and I'm not wasting time pointing this out to someone just trolling ..." is just irony, delicious irony.
the passenger compartment is NOT a crumple zone or energy absorber. the passenger compartment is very very rigid/strong. all the crumple zones are -outside- the passenger compartment. the compartment itself cannot experience any deformation (ideally) because that leads to deformation of people's bodies...usually a Very Bad Thing. speaking specifically of the roof (which the ac was) the roof cannot "aborb" anything; and its not designed to. its designed to suport the weight of the car, plus some, and transfer it to the roll bars/pillars and not crush skulls.
the AC was wrong.