While all are ensured equitable and fair treatment in court,
In theory you may have those assurances. In practice, it is about how much justice you can afford. If accused of a crime, the accusers can give the judge some lame excuses (in my case, it was that an aunt was sick). How many days of work can you afford to miss? The lawyer fees amounted to about $2,000(US) in this case. It was a juvenile case involving assault from a schoolyard fight. No physical evidence was presented. No witnesses were questioned. A letter from the assistant principal (who wasn't present) was accepted as fact by the court, and a suspension arising from my son repeating racial statements from a BET comedian were taken into account by the black judge.
I had the option of settling or continuing to pay for a lawyer. 9 months of probation for a fight in middle school. Really?
You're Peugeot would probably run fine with some slight adjustments to the timing.
Think how an engine works. Fuel air mixture is compressed and then ignited. The gas expands, pushing down on a piston, which pushes the dog leg of the crank. The mixture doesn't expand instantaneously. The mixture is fire off, and then a flame front propagates, taking a finite amount of time.
If you set the mixture off to early, the mixture starts expanding to early. The piston is still trying to compress the mixture while it is heating up, which causes it to heat up even faster. The worst case is that all the mixture ignites at once (as in a diesel), and the heads blow off the engine from the resulting explosion.
If you wait until the piston is at the apex of it's travel before igniting the mixture, the flame will just be propagating as the chamber volume is expanding. The flame will propagate slower, and not get as hot. The pressure will possibly still be building as the power stroke is finishing. A LOT of wasted power there.
The octane of the fuel can be thought of as a measure of ignition reliability when tuning. The higher the octane, the more "clustered" the ignition events will be around a given pressure/temperature state. This allows the engineer to create an engine with closer tolerances, that can run at a higher compression ratio (a big determinant of fuel efficiency). With the lower octane, the engineer has to give more leeway, and allow for combustion events that won't start at exactly the right time.
If I've drawn the picture correctly, you should be able to see that retarding the ignition (ie, not letting it fire off before the piston reaches the apex of its travel) will reduce the peak pressure in the cylinder and allow a fuel that isn't as constrained to run adequately. The engine won't have as much power, and won't run as efficiently, but it ?can? run smoother. (as always it is much more complicated than can be posted in a/. comment.)
Here is something else that is completely counter-intuitive. 87 octane gasoline actually has a higher energy content than 93. It's the additives providing the higher octane that reduce the energy content.
So when GM declares bankruptcy, they are no longer required to comply with these laws? I've known the proprietors of companies with hundreds of employees that were barely squeaking a profit,or losing money. If profitability is the measure, it is a stupid one.
I also knew a small printing shop that was trying to hire their first employee. They couldn't because they'd have to build the wheelchair accessible bathroom and ramps. You're claim that smaller companies would not have to comply patently false, and would be discriminatory if true.
Just like sexual harassment, the definition of "reasonable accommodation" is set by the one claiming harm.
Sounds like you have a disability. Please report to your local ADA office to fill out some papers.
What it is actually leading to is an onslaught of groups struggling to be declared an officially recognized disabled group so that they can then start seeking special treatment for whatever ails them.
I'm willing to pay to help *other* people, but if I'm the one paying for it, I want a say in who I help, how I help, and what I do to help. Anything else is just slavery.
The fact that even government departments, which were meant to be a minimum of Level AA compliant when I worked for them, are still getting this so wrong years after the DDA and nobody has been brought to task over it shows that the likelihood of legislation making much of a dent is minimal
Alternatively, it could show that it was pointless legislation that no one really cared about. Just a few grandstanders trying to show that they are chivalrous for standing up for the disabled, who also couldn't care less.
Just to put the things in perspective: if the industry is so successful, why do you care of a bill that is going to be outdated soon?
Because, it is just like the government mandating any standard. Technology will move on, but the law will still be requiring a 9600-8-N-1 serial console and a floppy drive. I have seen several instances of "No one uses it anymore, but it's in the law, so we have to add it." I've not read the bill, but if it makes any technical mandates, it is destined to be one huge PITA.
What about my right to enjoy the fruits of my labor? How does your so-called "right" to a wheel chair ramp trump my "right" to sip a beer instead of building one?
I wonder, do you bemoan having to subsidize public transportation as well?
Yes. At least around here, it is friggin' useless, and is mostly just empty busses driving around mostly empty, blocking traffic every few hundred yards, and spewing black smelly smoke all over the place.
How amount the huge amount of man-hours spent filling in the data for alt attributes for images? All the screaming for civil "rights" generally boiled down to someone demanding that someone else do something for them. My website didn't have alt tags for the images, and not that you'd care, but I couldn't be bother to add them. I didn't care. You don't even have a "right" to read my website, and most definitely do not have a "right" to make me change it to suit your desires.
It must suck to be blind, but whining that someone else is REQUIRED to make your life less sucky is slavery.
I was aquainted with the owners of a small, family-run printing shop in a rural town. Son was going off to college, and they wanted to hire one person for part-time help. The list of physical requirements (the paperwork was ridiculous) include adding a bathroom (male and female), and retrofitting their shop for a wheelchair ramp. They decided it would cost WAY to much to hire the person.
So, what your saying is that it is "about time!" to piss on after school jobs. Thanks a lot.
you have an obligation to not cross personal boundaries. Members of senior management should know better. It's inappropriate and it's the sort of thing that leads to trouble.
Really? How do you think he got to senior management? You don't think the upper echelons of management hinges on hard work and know how, do you? Please consider the need to be able to play golf in order to thrive in that environment.
I was always stuck being the videographer at my son's birthday parties, little league games, Christmas mornings, etc. It was to the point that I could never participate. Eventually, I just said, "Screw that", and I either let my wife hold the cam-corder, or I set it up on a tri-pod in the corner and let it capture whatever it captured. The moments were to precious to spend with a piece of technology stuck to my face, so that I could have memories of not participating in the event.
I have memories of running around Disney World with my two sons, and coaching their wrestling matches from matside. We had more fun with every year that goes by.
The stock market is gambling. Gambling is trying to predict the future. Some people read tea leaves, and other spread chicken guts on the ground, but they're still betting money that in the future a particular stock will rise or fall. There is NO rationality in such guesswork...except that it is rational for some people, because they make a LOT of money playing the game. You can't win if you don't play, so not playing is irrational if you want to win.
It is rational for some people to play the game with other people's money.
It is rational for some people to flout the law to get special information (so that they're not having to guess as much as everyone else).
Betting money on a unknown can never be rational. Going through life without ever taking a chance can never be rational. I guess I'm just going to have to be irrational then.
Myself, I am more of a Keynsian. I think the market is useful, but it can run amok if not attended to by a government powerful enough to guide it towards the public good.
But...but... the government is made from the same stock that comprises the irrational market.
I know! Let's create a controlling body powerful enough to control the government.
But, then the controlling body guiding the people that make up the government, will have to be made up of people that come from this same irrational stock.
Heh! Why don't we have just one person control the controlling body that controls the government? That way, instead of irrational people, we'll have an irrational PERSON in charge.
I repeat myself, but the first, simple, sensible step would be to require the credit agency to report to me who is asking about me and what they are asking about. It is absolute nonsense that we have these irresponsible companies sneaking around spreading rumors.
Now, I will qualify myself:
Are they irresponsible? Try to get a incorrect report removed. They will all say in unison, "We just report what we're told. We're not repsonsible." The law also exempts them from responsibility from the results of spreading bad data.
Are they spreading rumors? The companies do not do any verification of the data other than to ask the reporting company if it is correct. That is hearsay in a court of law, and nothing but rumor mongering anywhere else.
And the first step to making it their problem, is to require them to tell us what they are telling everyone else. And I don't mean one stupid free report a year. Send me a report every time you sell a report to someone else. All it will require is a duplicate print, and a few cents in postage.
The next step will be to block any random company from obtaining my credit information. (What the hell is that about anyway? What do you call that "legitimate spying"? Forkin' peeping toms.)
Nexus, Equity, TransUnion, etc should be working to validate the information in their databases. The easiest way to do that is to verify my information with me.
And yet there is a cheap and easy fix that would fix nearly all the credit fraud.
When a credit reporting agency sends out a report about me, require them to send me what they sent the requester.
Now, it won't cover the problem 100%. There will still be holes that fraudsters will be able to get through. But the idiocy we have where companies sneak around whispering secrets about me is just criminal, and STUPID!!
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While all are ensured equitable and fair treatment in court,
In theory you may have those assurances. In practice, it is about how much justice you can afford. If accused of a crime, the accusers can give the judge some lame excuses (in my case, it was that an aunt was sick). How many days of work can you afford to miss? The lawyer fees amounted to about $2,000(US) in this case. It was a juvenile case involving assault from a schoolyard fight. No physical evidence was presented. No witnesses were questioned. A letter from the assistant principal (who wasn't present) was accepted as fact by the court, and a suspension arising from my son repeating racial statements from a BET comedian were taken into account by the black judge.
I had the option of settling or continuing to pay for a lawyer. 9 months of probation for a fight in middle school. Really?
Justice in America is a whore.
You're Peugeot would probably run fine with some slight adjustments to the timing.
Think how an engine works. Fuel air mixture is compressed and then ignited. The gas expands, pushing down on a piston, which pushes the dog leg of the crank. The mixture doesn't expand instantaneously. The mixture is fire off, and then a flame front propagates, taking a finite amount of time.
If you set the mixture off to early, the mixture starts expanding to early. The piston is still trying to compress the mixture while it is heating up, which causes it to heat up even faster. The worst case is that all the mixture ignites at once (as in a diesel), and the heads blow off the engine from the resulting explosion.
If you wait until the piston is at the apex of it's travel before igniting the mixture, the flame will just be propagating as the chamber volume is expanding. The flame will propagate slower, and not get as hot. The pressure will possibly still be building as the power stroke is finishing. A LOT of wasted power there.
The octane of the fuel can be thought of as a measure of ignition reliability when tuning. The higher the octane, the more "clustered" the ignition events will be around a given pressure/temperature state. This allows the engineer to create an engine with closer tolerances, that can run at a higher compression ratio (a big determinant of fuel efficiency). With the lower octane, the engineer has to give more leeway, and allow for combustion events that won't start at exactly the right time.
If I've drawn the picture correctly, you should be able to see that retarding the ignition (ie, not letting it fire off before the piston reaches the apex of its travel) will reduce the peak pressure in the cylinder and allow a fuel that isn't as constrained to run adequately. The engine won't have as much power, and won't run as efficiently, but it ?can? run smoother. (as always it is much more complicated than can be posted in a /. comment.)
Here is something else that is completely counter-intuitive. 87 octane gasoline actually has a higher energy content than 93. It's the additives providing the higher octane that reduce the energy content.
When Nixon declared a war on drugs.
No, aural was correct. They got the idea from the doomsday weapon in "Atlast Shrugged".
Perhaps he's trying to get a handle on all this technology himself - is stupid a disability?
No. It is a requirement to be a Democratic candidate for Congress.
So when GM declares bankruptcy, they are no longer required to comply with these laws? I've known the proprietors of companies with hundreds of employees that were barely squeaking a profit,or losing money. If profitability is the measure, it is a stupid one.
I also knew a small printing shop that was trying to hire their first employee. They couldn't because they'd have to build the wheelchair accessible bathroom and ramps. You're claim that smaller companies would not have to comply patently false, and would be discriminatory if true.
Just like sexual harassment, the definition of "reasonable accommodation" is set by the one claiming harm.
Sounds like you have a disability. Please report to your local ADA office to fill out some papers.
What it is actually leading to is an onslaught of groups struggling to be declared an officially recognized disabled group so that they can then start seeking special treatment for whatever ails them.
I'm willing to pay to help *other* people, but if I'm the one paying for it, I want a say in who I help, how I help, and what I do to help. Anything else is just slavery.
The fact that even government departments, which were meant to be a minimum of Level AA compliant when I worked for them, are still getting this so wrong years after the DDA and nobody has been brought to task over it shows that the likelihood of legislation making much of a dent is minimal
Alternatively, it could show that it was pointless legislation that no one really cared about. Just a few grandstanders trying to show that they are chivalrous for standing up for the disabled, who also couldn't care less.
Just to put the things in perspective: if the industry is so successful, why do you care of a bill that is going to be outdated soon?
Because, it is just like the government mandating any standard. Technology will move on, but the law will still be requiring a 9600-8-N-1 serial console and a floppy drive. I have seen several instances of "No one uses it anymore, but it's in the law, so we have to add it." I've not read the bill, but if it makes any technical mandates, it is destined to be one huge PITA.
What about my right to enjoy the fruits of my labor? How does your so-called "right" to a wheel chair ramp trump my "right" to sip a beer instead of building one?
I wonder, do you bemoan having to subsidize public transportation as well?
Yes. At least around here, it is friggin' useless, and is mostly just empty busses driving around mostly empty, blocking traffic every few hundred yards, and spewing black smelly smoke all over the place.
How amount the huge amount of man-hours spent filling in the data for alt attributes for images? All the screaming for civil "rights" generally boiled down to someone demanding that someone else do something for them. My website didn't have alt tags for the images, and not that you'd care, but I couldn't be bother to add them. I didn't care. You don't even have a "right" to read my website, and most definitely do not have a "right" to make me change it to suit your desires.
It must suck to be blind, but whining that someone else is REQUIRED to make your life less sucky is slavery.
Define "medium to large" business.
I was aquainted with the owners of a small, family-run printing shop in a rural town. Son was going off to college, and they wanted to hire one person for part-time help. The list of physical requirements (the paperwork was ridiculous) include adding a bathroom (male and female), and retrofitting their shop for a wheelchair ramp. They decided it would cost WAY to much to hire the person.
So, what your saying is that it is "about time!" to piss on after school jobs. Thanks a lot.
Except the "reasonable person" issue is still there. If I feel pressured by a female employee in the workplace and report it, I will be laughed at.
And so it goes.
you have an obligation to not cross personal boundaries. Members of senior management should know better. It's inappropriate and it's the sort of thing that leads to trouble.
Really? How do you think he got to senior management? You don't think the upper echelons of management hinges on hard work and know how, do you? Please consider the need to be able to play golf in order to thrive in that environment.
sexual harassment is pretty serious.
Unless it is committed by a Democratic governor of a southern US state. In that case, perjury and a little political demagoguery can make it go away.
Surely the CEO of HP has a home where he can privately look at whatever he wants.
That home is also where he most likely keeps his wife who can make his life hell, or take half his shit when she leaves.
Work is much safer.
I was always stuck being the videographer at my son's birthday parties, little league games, Christmas mornings, etc. It was to the point that I could never participate. Eventually, I just said, "Screw that", and I either let my wife hold the cam-corder, or I set it up on a tri-pod in the corner and let it capture whatever it captured. The moments were to precious to spend with a piece of technology stuck to my face, so that I could have memories of not participating in the event.
I have memories of running around Disney World with my two sons, and coaching their wrestling matches from matside. We had more fun with every year that goes by.
The stock market is gambling. Gambling is trying to predict the future. Some people read tea leaves, and other spread chicken guts on the ground, but they're still betting money that in the future a particular stock will rise or fall. There is NO rationality in such guesswork...except that it is rational for some people, because they make a LOT of money playing the game. You can't win if you don't play, so not playing is irrational if you want to win.
It is rational for some people to play the game with other people's money.
It is rational for some people to flout the law to get special information (so that they're not having to guess as much as everyone else).
Betting money on a unknown can never be rational. Going through life without ever taking a chance can never be rational. I guess I'm just going to have to be irrational then.
You mean the "irrational" electorate, don't you?
Myself, I am more of a Keynsian. I think the market is useful, but it can run amok if not attended to by a government powerful enough to guide it towards the public good.
But...but... the government is made from the same stock that comprises the irrational market.
I know! Let's create a controlling body powerful enough to control the government.
But, then the controlling body guiding the people that make up the government, will have to be made up of people that come from this same irrational stock.
Heh! Why don't we have just one person control the controlling body that controls the government? That way, instead of irrational people, we'll have an irrational PERSON in charge.
Wow! That problem was easy.
I repeat myself, but the first, simple, sensible step would be to require the credit agency to report to me who is asking about me and what they are asking about. It is absolute nonsense that we have these irresponsible companies sneaking around spreading rumors.
Now, I will qualify myself:
Are they irresponsible? Try to get a incorrect report removed. They will all say in unison, "We just report what we're told. We're not repsonsible." The law also exempts them from responsibility from the results of spreading bad data.
Are they spreading rumors? The companies do not do any verification of the data other than to ask the reporting company if it is correct. That is hearsay in a court of law, and nothing but rumor mongering anywhere else.
Hear. Hear.
And the first step to making it their problem, is to require them to tell us what they are telling everyone else. And I don't mean one stupid free report a year. Send me a report every time you sell a report to someone else. All it will require is a duplicate print, and a few cents in postage.
The next step will be to block any random company from obtaining my credit information. (What the hell is that about anyway? What do you call that "legitimate spying"? Forkin' peeping toms.)
Nexus, Equity, TransUnion, etc should be working to validate the information in their databases. The easiest way to do that is to verify my information with me.
And yet there is a cheap and easy fix that would fix nearly all the credit fraud.
When a credit reporting agency sends out a report about me, require them to send me what they sent the requester.
Now, it won't cover the problem 100%. There will still be holes that fraudsters will be able to get through. But the idiocy we have where companies sneak around whispering secrets about me is just criminal, and STUPID!!