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  1. Re:Totally not the parents . . . on 'Fortnite' May be a Virtual Game, But It's Having Real-life, Dangerous Effects (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    have 3. all girls.
    all have known :
    chop wood ( they don't have to play fortnite, they got their own axe's to go hack and slay )
    the belt ( 7 red bottoms in 22 years )
    rotate tires ( if anything, this besides the walking, might be the most important lesson ever taught, most people can't change a tire safely or properly.)
    fold clothing ( something I enjoy doing, but they hated, so they are all experts at folding clothing )

    arms out
    5 mile walks

    read
    stand still for 5 minutes
    something I call speeching; read out loud, like if you are acting, with lot's of hand and arm movements, but from the most horrible engineer or math book possible, some of the funniest speeches I can recall are about bernoulli principle

    no internet, no tv, no music just reading

    carry the frying pan ( cast iron )
    carry the coleman.

    Rules are rules, don't complain just keep moving forward.

  2. Re:Totally not the parents . . . on 'Fortnite' May be a Virtual Game, But It's Having Real-life, Dangerous Effects (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bad Parenting,
    that's just it. the lack of being able to do a proper punishment. disconnect them from the net for the weekend. or just take away the phone.

    change the password.

    BUT NOOOOOO... it's some designer's fault or some game's fault ...

    Beat the kid with a belt, and make him/her chop wood for a week. that should solve it.

  3. and this is how restrictions get into place on Hacked Tornado Sirens Taken Offline In Two Texas Cities Ahead of Major Storm (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Sadly, a stupid stunt like this from some unknown party makes everyone's life harder.
    Why?

    A) blame games
    B) You should have know games ( Defcon had a topic about this )
    C) local government will raise taxes to cover the repair and security of the system.

    So people will get extremely tough and demand harsher punishments for criminals if ever caught.

    it's getting worse.

  4. Yep, I use Wikipedia as a guideline to understanding something. It's really been helpful in helping me learn more about the world but sadly, as I want to learn more, I keep finding agendas that seem to roll together.

    for example, I see more of something I call chaining : one 'factoid' linked to another one, and to another one then to a false statement. it's become very frustrating.

  5. I dispute your finding on Amazon Will Pay $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I dispute your finding
    http://www.governing.com/week-...

    and
    https://rockinst.org/wp-conten...

    with the data to support it from
    https://www.govinfo.gov/conten...

    NY and NJ pay a lot of taxes and don't get it all back.
    and Politifact California, can't find your reference, cite your source

  6. Re:Seems like they don't have a "leg" to stand on on Lufthansa Sues Passenger Who Missed His Flight in an Apparent Bid To Clamp Down on 'Hidden City' Trick (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    The skipping out part is the issue. Airlines will let you out mid leg of a trip due to an emergency.

    When people play connect the leg's on the same airline without telling them they are not on the same plane outbound, the airline starts to worry about it because A) your luggage B) where did we lose this person C) we now have to delay the flight to make sure our count is correct. D) is there a security risk to the plane.

  7. they said that about Sears also at one point.
    but like all things, it ebbs and flows

  8. thank you, I was wondering where this was.

  9. While I feel you are trolling, some others might think you are serious.

    by letting a natural genetic mutation work might be fine, and other critters might be able to deal with it, but a hand made mutation might have a chain impact on more than one creature.

    what I wonder is this, how many mosquitoes are needed to make a bat not interested in eating for a day or two.

    I prefer a simple increase the bat population and also use those laser beams that were made for this, back about 5 or 10 years ago, someone made a track and destroy beam against mosquitoes, but I think it went nowhere. sadly that would be the best defense at the home, with the least amount of issues for nature.

    I don't think natural selection is going to make an armored covered mosquito.

  10. wow that patent for a 500-50,000 MT flywheel is amazing.
    never could I imagine that it could get so big.

    but what is interesting to me, that the storage of this would work in places like florida, where solar can give it a boost on startup and increase it before the big commercial demand kicks in, Texas-oklahoma could have this working in the wind zones.

  11. Re:Try Canada on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    i came in about the same time too, and sadly it's been troll central. I was looking forward to a legit conversation about this.

  12. Re:We can't have that! on FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    finally someone points out some of the issues that are involved.

  13. Re:jurisdiction on FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    not that simple, your business entity can not be in the USA or some other countries. in reference to launching. each country has rules of the road. and in this case, they were told to fix up or go home, they found a loop hole, got caught and luckily just got a small fine.

    justice department-FCC should have hammered them harder

  14. Re:jurisdiction on FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You are correct that it is an absolute issue, That's why venture capital firms have offshore trusts designed to invest in these items... as long as the money does not show up on the USA books directly, they can not be accounted as illegally earned revenue ( and taxed at the highest rate ).

    So to invest in a company that is doing a launch in India and is India based, I need to move the money offshore, the move it again to another investment entity and then to the company in India. Once the service is perfected, then they move everything to the Europe and the rest of the world.

  15. Never been in that situation before so no wonder I was confused. my lack
    of experience within that life shows. I've never been in a situation
    since 1985 where I did not get paid on, full up to payday. it's always one of
    my lucky stances and I've paid the cycle out to. I owned a few firms, did the
    same thing I believed in IE: show that you are paid up to the date of the check
    1-15 on the 15th and 16 to end of month with the date being the end of the month.

    When I was on wall street, I ran a portfolio, open the books and traded started
    on Sunday 7pm, and went to zero open positions and closed books at 4:00pm

    Someone checked the the P/L statement against my P/L numbers. Always matched
    and I had a check cut. Sunday at 7PM there had to be a check at my desk otherwise
    I would not trade. More than once someone was found by 2 am and I was notified
    and went to work. no checkie not workie and I was dead serious about it.

    markets were very inefficient in those days

    to this day my week starts on sunday and ends saturday, just seems right to me.
    but thank's for the education, my job concept seems to be not viable based on
    what the normal payroll system is. Oh well... another time to make a profitable
    idea. Good speaking with you.

  16. Sorry, my error in communicating properly,
    I meant to write that I read the entire thing.
    but it seems that while not having to give advance notice,
    they must tell someone that they quit.

    at least that's the concept that I got.

    Now a simple dispute:
    someone "ghost" on Monday, payroll is Wednesday ( direct deposit morning hit ).
    who owes who for Monday and maybe Tuesday
    and let's just make this even more fun,
    You get hit by a car on Tuseday, who get's the health care bill ( because in theory, you have 2 health care policies in place )

    I keep on seeing an open liability here for the company, because I don't know if "ghost" is my resource or someone else
    I can't find the proof that you can just walk off the job and not tell someone up the chain or human resources.
    Just seems wrong.

    but hey, business opportunity seems to be present

  17. Simple,
    because you don't know me you are not aware of my shut up rule..
    works like this, once the deal is dead, I shut up and walk away.
    So, I did what I normally had to do, and did not accept anymore
    work that would extend my hours beyond, did my productive 8
    everyday. I love Scotty time quoting so that helped a lot.

    It's not like you can force me to answer anything not within
    my employment scope and please send legal down, because
    if one thing I have learned is, "don't sign anything" and "the less
    you say, the more they have to dig to hang you"

    I was the so called guy to talk to, and upon being notified, I told
    everyone that they could not come to me for advice, simple. even
    when they asked who should they promote, I said money for answer.
    the CEO was a drinking buddy at a bar, I told him that we could no longer
    talk business, but he was welcomed to drink and laugh. we remained
    drinking buddies till I moved out of state.

    it's like dating, once it's over, you never look back, and don't think
    about it anymore... go out and find a new replacement.

  18. that's part of the key, they just were not on top of stuff.

    also I asked for 20K+ they countered at 10K

    How to justify anything is simple, take your earnings rate ( commission plus salary plus benefit plus insurance = base line. then take base line add 33% because consultant's get to ask for more money and that's how I got my number )

  19. read the entire thing,
    does not cover the concept of ghosting or "leaving without saying goodbye"

    so I got to think my idea is still justifiable from a business standpoint.
    Thank you again.

  20. Thank you

  21. that's ok.

    your views are like any other's.
    but business is always business.

    good luck,
    enjoy being held accountable
    and may you find satisfaction at whatever it is you enjoy doing.

  22. Not being dickish... but can you cite something, I would think that this is covered somewhere and just forgotten.
    what happens if no one notices for a full pay-cycle? would that be theft?

    weird that the topic of ghosting ( I think it would be called abandonment ) is not covered in CA employment statues.

    my idea get's more interesting by the minute

  23. I gave 3 month notice.
    I had a name at the time, and a reputation. a handshake deal was 99% of the time ok, and then just hand to the attorneys to look over to make sure it was honored and correctly understood.

  24. I think it's the other way around
    it's a legal issue not a moral issue

    My thinking goes like this:
    employer is paying for coverage, wages and other items...
    if the person quits then the employer knows to stop paying
    if the person ghost then the employer does not know what to do.

    I look forward to my new startup called "ghost catchers" where
    we collect the employers credits for a fee and put the employee
    into payback hell.

  25. I was once asked for an exit interview.
    I said I get a consultant rate for my time to tell you what's wrong,
      they said what's the rate.
    3800 and hour, 6 hour min. hotel's and food are on your account.
    they looked at each other, walked out, spent 5 minutes deliberating
    and came back in... counter was 2500 hr and 4 hours min.

    I laughed and left.
    they called and called for 2 weeks...
    they were out of business in 18 months.

    When you get older and wiser and have no fear of speaking up,
    people will pay to get your views. and when you call out someone who's
    the UBer whatever, be ready for the bullshit battle and just put them down.