A few years ago, I knew some guys who worked as hourly student interns at a Motorola facility. They would have one on-call person at a time, and he would get 1/10th of his hourly for each hour on call, and full pay for each hour he worked if he got called in on something.
Needless to say, everyone wanted to be on-call so they could get paid for sitting around.
I don't know of this is still their policy, but it is an alternative you can bring to your employer as an option for compensating on-call personnel.
Or you can just suck it up and deal like the rest of us:)
With new developments in stem cell research, most of the (IMHO good) arguments for Human Cloning are met. Stem cell cultures taken early in life can potentially yield fresh organs, nerve tissue, limbs, what have you.
While that may not provide any of us with miniature lawn-mowing versions of ourselves, many can be satisfied.
Human cloning comes so close to violating, and it definitely challenges, codes of ethics that Doctors and Scientists have been struggling with for hundreds of years.
These codes have been held in high regard for the protection of patients and subjects. While it's true that these rules have definitely held back pharmaceutical, surgical, and psychological research that could have benefitted or even saved the lives of millions, in these cases the good of the few or the one must outweigh the good of those millions.
There are so many ways Human Cloning can be misused and abused with tragic results, there must be some sort of regulation, and starting early and prohibitively is a good start; it is easier to relax restrictions later than try to enforce greater ones once Human Cloning becomes commonplace.
Sun manufactures AXi boards for the Ultra5 and 10 models that have built in SCSI. Third party companies can be certified by Sun to sell these things, and usually the come dirt cheap. The company I work for buys Ultra 10 clones with 4.2 GB Cheetah drives and 1 GB of RAM for around $5k each. Much better deal than buying Suns made by Sun. You get hardware support from Sun or take it from the 3rd party if they offer it. Check out World Data Products, the vendor we buy from, for more info.
I have a strange feeling this is not an Internet addiction quiz. It seems to be more like a poorly shaded attempt at garnering marketing information. The domain that hosts this site is owned by a marketing firm. The questions are poorly worded and don't quite look like they'd belong on a real psychological evaluation.
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A few years ago, I knew some guys who worked as hourly student interns at a Motorola facility. They would have one on-call person at a time, and he would get 1/10th of his hourly for each hour on call, and full pay for each hour he worked if he got called in on something.
:)
Needless to say, everyone wanted to be on-call so they could get paid for sitting around.
I don't know of this is still their policy, but it is an alternative you can bring to your employer as an option for compensating on-call personnel.
Or you can just suck it up and deal like the rest of us
With new developments in stem cell research, most of the (IMHO good) arguments for Human Cloning are met. Stem cell cultures taken early in life can potentially yield fresh organs, nerve tissue, limbs, what have you.
While that may not provide any of us with miniature lawn-mowing versions of ourselves, many can be satisfied.
Human cloning comes so close to violating, and it definitely challenges, codes of ethics that Doctors and Scientists have been struggling with for hundreds of years.
These codes have been held in high regard for the protection of patients and subjects. While it's true that these rules have definitely held back pharmaceutical, surgical, and psychological research that could have benefitted or even saved the lives of millions, in these cases the good of the few or the one must outweigh the good of those millions.
There are so many ways Human Cloning can be misused and abused with tragic results, there must be some sort of regulation, and starting early and prohibitively is a good start; it is easier to relax restrictions later than try to enforce greater ones once Human Cloning becomes commonplace.
In space, no one can hear you reboot...
Says the gent who's never watched The Simpsons. That's what you get for watching Friend> and Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place.
Sun manufactures AXi boards for the Ultra5 and 10 models that have built in SCSI. Third party companies can be certified by Sun to sell these things, and usually the come dirt cheap. The company I work for buys Ultra 10 clones with 4.2 GB Cheetah drives and 1 GB of RAM for around $5k each. Much better deal than buying Suns made by Sun. You get hardware support from Sun or take it from the 3rd party if they offer it. Check out World Data Products, the vendor we buy from, for more info.
I have a strange feeling this is not an Internet addiction quiz. It seems to be more like a poorly shaded attempt at garnering marketing information. The domain that hosts this site is owned by a marketing firm. The questions are poorly worded and don't quite look like they'd belong on a real psychological evaluation.
This stuff is from Guarana. Read the caffeiene/coffee FAQ for more info.
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