Sounds like your current solution - "category" based filtering at the border combined with a strong company policy - is already more than adequate to cover most potential liability to the company.
The rest of your question sounds like you're using this legislation as an excuse to implement some downright draconian and invasive "productivity enforcement" measures that have nothing to do with the stated problem.
You will not receive a Bachelor's degree in the United States from an accredited university without somehow completing or receiving credit for general education requirements. You can argue the merits of this until you're blue in the face, but a bachelor's degree is generally _defined_ to be a well-rounded educational experience that consists of approximately four credit-years of instruction.
Even if the GE requirements were waived, you'd have a hell of a time coming up with 4 credit-years worth of instruction in your chosen field only - and "I don't want to" isn't going to fly as a valid reason for not meeting the minimum credit requirements to graduate.
That's nuts. I hope its worth it. No trains or anything can take you? No ride sharing?
Sadly no. We made a conscious choice to move to a rural area to be closer to family and raise kids away from the city. There are certainly trade-offs with that, one of them being a longish commute for the schmuck who makes a living in enterprise IT. Not much "enterprise" close to home...
It's long in miles but low on stress - I pass more tractors than cars most mornings. I'd prefer this over 10 miles in gridlocked traffic.
The FCC should be regulating communication so that providers aren't stepping all over each other's signals and that's pretty much it.
I see great overlap between this statement and proposed Net Neutrality regulation. One could argue that ensuring Comcast or any other ISP doesn't "step all over" my clear and unobstructed path to various Internet destinations ("channels") is much the same as doing it for the public airwaves.
The question to answer is whether or not we want to treat the Internet as a shared public resource like we do radio spectrum or a free-for-all controlled by government endorsed regional monopolies.
What is the most likely reaction of an average iPad user encountering a slow app?
1) WTF why is my brand new $500 toy so slow and sucky!
or
2) Boy, the javascript rendering on this bad boy is severely lacking, I wonder why that is?
For a company so clearly centered on the "user experience", it's certainly in their best interest for ALL apps to run smoothly and as fast as possible - be them "real" apps or "web" apps. How many iPad users do you think could actually tell the difference between the two in the first place? I'm all for a good Apple is Evil conspiracy - but this one stinks.
I run a large (4M+ post, 20k+ member) forum and inevitably receive requests from members every so often asking if their username, including all of their posts, can be deleted. To date my answer has been a resounding "no", with the primary reason being that removing one voice from a thread often results in a garbled mess that compromises the integrity of the archive. Much of the content is technical, so removing every third post because someone changed their mind can make the entire conversation worthless.
IMO once you've participated in a conversation in a public forum - electronic or otherwise - the decision to redact it is no longer yours alone to make.
Does your proposed theme park have a business plan that shows it could attract a significant number of patrons from the tri-state area and make a positive impact on the economy, thereby meeting at least the basic criteria for tourism development dollars?
How is that/not/ a violation of the separation of church and state?
Devil's advocate here, but we're talking tourism development dollars, which are presumably available to any tourism-generating entity. If this crazy fairytale town actually does generate an influx of believers who spend money in the community - presumably positively affecting the local economy and ALL residents who benefit from that - is it really the government respecting or endorsing an "establishment of religion"?
And I, the owner of the machine, have no obligation to let you use my ATM for free. We have no business relationship. I've made no promises to you. Why do you think you should take my work and investment and use it for free, denying me not only the chance to make a profit, but also to recoup my investment?
Perhaps you misunderstood the meat of my comment. I have no problem with you, the owner of the third party ATM in question, charging me a fee to use your machine. I fully support the premise of a "cash only" restaurant providing an ATM for use by their patrons at a reasonable fee.
My post was addressing the _additional_ fee that most people have to pay to their own bank for the privilege of using that third party ATM. The same bank they *do* have a business relationship with, that often charges a monthly fee just for the privilege of allowing them to hold your money for you interest-free.
That fee, which easily runs $2-3 at most big banks, raises the transaction cost for most people to the "ludicrous" level when added on to the perhaps totally reasonable fee charged for the privilege of using the third party ATM.
Now that I've found a bank that doesn't charge for the "privilege" of dispensing your cash via someone else's machine, I could get on board with this, as it's a win-win for the business owner and myself (they save some money on card processing extortion fees, and presumably pass some of that overhead savings on to me). Unfortunately, the majority of people with accounts at the MegaBanks will still pay a $3+ "out of network ATM" fee, even if the restaurant's ATM only charges a quarter.
The concept of a 'C' grade as "average" or "mean" is a misconception right from the start.
If a 'C' were truly average, then a class full of students scoring 100% on all homework assignments and tests should all receive 'C's. That's clearly not the case nor the intent.
The intended use of grades should be to represent the pupil's mastery of the material, not their relative position amongst peers. An "average" grasp of the material might earn a 'C', regardless of the relative strength or weakness of other students.
Though, I have been considering an iPad for my technophobic grandfather-in-law
The only person I actually know with an iPad is my 75 year old grandfather. It is, as far as I can tell, the best "grandparent" device currently available. Load it up with pics and videos of the grandkids, old Merle Haggard LPs, a couple bookmarks to large-font news outlets and maybe the family photo album so he can see new content.
He's happy as a clam. Point to what he wants to do and it does it. He can throw it in his bag and take it to the far reaches of the county to show off his progeny. It's more or less idiot proof and there's hardly anything "computer" about it to get in the way.
If it sported the front-facing camera and "Face Time" ability of the iphone 4, it would be damn near perfect.
The Contour was a nice (for the time) car that suffered mightily at the hands of Ford's US brand management. It also suffered from unfortunate timing, being a smaller and more "efficient" car than most of its direct competitors at a time when gasoline was ridiculously cheap and SUVs were taking off like wildfire.
Subsequent generations of the Mondeo (the euro-spec car on which the Contour was based) have gone on to be hugely successful class-leading vehicles in Europe.
FWIW Ford is becoming quite competitive once again in the US as well. The 2010 Fusion has won numerous awards and is favorably reviewed against its peers. Quality ratings are consistently rising and are now as good as or better than their Japanese competitors. The new line of "ecoboost" turbo engines, finally replacing the trash version of the Focus with the superb model available in Europe, the introduction of the new Fiesta - all of these things are conspiring to resurrect Ford's passenger car line and sales are rising to match.
Alan Mulaly has done great things for that company and I hope he continues.
See, the people will revolt if we suddenly double or triple the gas tax, which is 18.5 cents a gallon.
Sad priorities we have in this country. The government knows that a tax increase is suicide, but pushing a technically complicated privacy nightmare will sail right through due to the "I've got nothing to hide" mentality of the majority.
Perhaps a subscriber has more incentive to report a $50 DRM-ridden copy protected game "lost in the mail" than a $15 DVD they can simply "burn and return". What makes Gamefly so sure it's the USPS?
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Sounds like your current solution - "category" based filtering at the border combined with a strong company policy - is already more than adequate to cover most potential liability to the company.
The rest of your question sounds like you're using this legislation as an excuse to implement some downright draconian and invasive "productivity enforcement" measures that have nothing to do with the stated problem.
... or maybe an "industry certification".
You will not receive a Bachelor's degree in the United States from an accredited university without somehow completing or receiving credit for general education requirements. You can argue the merits of this until you're blue in the face, but a bachelor's degree is generally _defined_ to be a well-rounded educational experience that consists of approximately four credit-years of instruction.
Even if the GE requirements were waived, you'd have a hell of a time coming up with 4 credit-years worth of instruction in your chosen field only - and "I don't want to" isn't going to fly as a valid reason for not meeting the minimum credit requirements to graduate.
Welcome to the real world.
If she went to an Apple store "recently", she most certainly didn't decide she wanted a 24", as they haven't sold one new since early 2009.
That's nuts. I hope its worth it. No trains or anything can take you? No ride sharing?
Sadly no. We made a conscious choice to move to a rural area to be closer to family and raise kids away from the city. There are certainly trade-offs with that, one of them being a longish commute for the schmuck who makes a living in enterprise IT. Not much "enterprise" close to home...
It's long in miles but low on stress - I pass more tractors than cars most mornings. I'd prefer this over 10 miles in gridlocked traffic.
The FCC should be regulating communication so that providers aren't stepping all over each other's signals and that's pretty much it.
I see great overlap between this statement and proposed Net Neutrality regulation. One could argue that ensuring Comcast or any other ISP doesn't "step all over" my clear and unobstructed path to various Internet destinations ("channels") is much the same as doing it for the public airwaves.
The question to answer is whether or not we want to treat the Internet as a shared public resource like we do radio spectrum or a free-for-all controlled by government endorsed regional monopolies.
Just in gas, it typically costs me $7800/yr
Do you drive a taxi or something? That might be hard to do from home.
I have a rather long commute of 110 miles per day.
110 * 5 days/week * 48 weeks per year / 30mpg * $4/gal == $3200/year.
If you drive twice as far, I feel sorry for you. If you're driving something that gets 15mpg, or paying US$8/gal for gas, you're doing it wrong.
What is the most likely reaction of an average iPad user encountering a slow app?
1) WTF why is my brand new $500 toy so slow and sucky!
or
2) Boy, the javascript rendering on this bad boy is severely lacking, I wonder why that is?
For a company so clearly centered on the "user experience", it's certainly in their best interest for ALL apps to run smoothly and as fast as possible - be them "real" apps or "web" apps. How many iPad users do you think could actually tell the difference between the two in the first place? I'm all for a good Apple is Evil conspiracy - but this one stinks.
I run a large (4M+ post, 20k+ member) forum and inevitably receive requests from members every so often asking if their username, including all of their posts, can be deleted. To date my answer has been a resounding "no", with the primary reason being that removing one voice from a thread often results in a garbled mess that compromises the integrity of the archive. Much of the content is technical, so removing every third post because someone changed their mind can make the entire conversation worthless.
IMO once you've participated in a conversation in a public forum - electronic or otherwise - the decision to redact it is no longer yours alone to make.
Does your proposed theme park have a business plan that shows it could attract a significant number of patrons from the tri-state area and make a positive impact on the economy, thereby meeting at least the basic criteria for tourism development dollars?
And as soon as a Mickey-worshipping cult springs up which the government then starts funding, that will be a problem.
Have you ever been to Central Florida? This happened decades ago.
How is that /not/ a violation of the separation of church and state?
Devil's advocate here, but we're talking tourism development dollars, which are presumably available to any tourism-generating entity. If this crazy fairytale town actually does generate an influx of believers who spend money in the community - presumably positively affecting the local economy and ALL residents who benefit from that - is it really the government respecting or endorsing an "establishment of religion"?
There are a couple manufacturers of Expresscard/34 SSDs that would fit the bill nicely.
And I, the owner of the machine, have no obligation to let you use my ATM for free. We have no business relationship. I've made no promises to you. Why do you think you should take my work and investment and use it for free, denying me not only the chance to make a profit, but also to recoup my investment?
Perhaps you misunderstood the meat of my comment. I have no problem with you, the owner of the third party ATM in question, charging me a fee to use your machine. I fully support the premise of a "cash only" restaurant providing an ATM for use by their patrons at a reasonable fee.
My post was addressing the _additional_ fee that most people have to pay to their own bank for the privilege of using that third party ATM. The same bank they *do* have a business relationship with, that often charges a monthly fee just for the privilege of allowing them to hold your money for you interest-free.
That fee, which easily runs $2-3 at most big banks, raises the transaction cost for most people to the "ludicrous" level when added on to the perhaps totally reasonable fee charged for the privilege of using the third party ATM.
Now that I've found a bank that doesn't charge for the "privilege" of dispensing your cash via someone else's machine, I could get on board with this, as it's a win-win for the business owner and myself (they save some money on card processing extortion fees, and presumably pass some of that overhead savings on to me). Unfortunately, the majority of people with accounts at the MegaBanks will still pay a $3+ "out of network ATM" fee, even if the restaurant's ATM only charges a quarter.
The concept of a 'C' grade as "average" or "mean" is a misconception right from the start.
If a 'C' were truly average, then a class full of students scoring 100% on all homework assignments and tests should all receive 'C's. That's clearly not the case nor the intent.
The intended use of grades should be to represent the pupil's mastery of the material, not their relative position amongst peers. An "average" grasp of the material might earn a 'C', regardless of the relative strength or weakness of other students.
Though, I have been considering an iPad for my technophobic grandfather-in-law
The only person I actually know with an iPad is my 75 year old grandfather. It is, as far as I can tell, the best "grandparent" device currently available. Load it up with pics and videos of the grandkids, old Merle Haggard LPs, a couple bookmarks to large-font news outlets and maybe the family photo album so he can see new content.
He's happy as a clam. Point to what he wants to do and it does it. He can throw it in his bag and take it to the far reaches of the county to show off his progeny. It's more or less idiot proof and there's hardly anything "computer" about it to get in the way.
If it sported the front-facing camera and "Face Time" ability of the iphone 4, it would be damn near perfect.
From: sjobs@toyota.com
Subject: RE: Accelerator Problems
Just avoid pressing it that way.
- Sent from my iPhone
The Contour was a nice (for the time) car that suffered mightily at the hands of Ford's US brand management. It also suffered from unfortunate timing, being a smaller and more "efficient" car than most of its direct competitors at a time when gasoline was ridiculously cheap and SUVs were taking off like wildfire.
Subsequent generations of the Mondeo (the euro-spec car on which the Contour was based) have gone on to be hugely successful class-leading vehicles in Europe.
FWIW Ford is becoming quite competitive once again in the US as well. The 2010 Fusion has won numerous awards and is favorably reviewed against its peers. Quality ratings are consistently rising and are now as good as or better than their Japanese competitors. The new line of "ecoboost" turbo engines, finally replacing the trash version of the Focus with the superb model available in Europe, the introduction of the new Fiesta - all of these things are conspiring to resurrect Ford's passenger car line and sales are rising to match.
Alan Mulaly has done great things for that company and I hope he continues.
Fuck everything, we're doing seven panels.
who would want to develop something like a media swiss-army knife for the mac;
These folks?
Perian - The swiss-army knife for Quicktime
"31% of Netbooks Running Pirated Windows"
See, the people will revolt if we suddenly double or triple the gas tax, which is 18.5 cents a gallon.
Sad priorities we have in this country. The government knows that a tax increase is suicide, but pushing a technically complicated privacy nightmare will sail right through due to the "I've got nothing to hide" mentality of the majority.
Hard to educate your users about phishing when your EMPLOYER is asking you for your login and password to personal sites.
Perhaps a subscriber has more incentive to report a $50 DRM-ridden copy protected game "lost in the mail" than a $15 DVD they can simply "burn and return". What makes Gamefly so sure it's the USPS?