But neither was owning slaves and we wouldn't give slave owners such a free pass. Back then people married young because they didn't live all that long. From a biological standpoint, it makes sense to procreate as soon as physically able. Modern society has changed many things. I think it's fair to judge past behavior based on different circumstances but not different moral standards.
Almost everything we use these days has a built-in battery. It's not even clear that, for residential purposes, we even need continuous electricity. If I had power 50% of the time in my house, I wouldn't even notice. Plug the phone in at night and instead of charging up by midnight, it's done at 2am. How would I know? My heater/AC don't run constantly. They're only on about 50% of the time. Computer? That has a big battery too. Car? As long as it is charged by morning. Clothes dryer? Well, I guess if I'm in a hurry. Lights. Well those would be trivial to add a tiny battery. Sure for hospitals and other such safety-critical infrastructure we need 100% continuous electricity, but I don't think I'd even notice if mine were off half the time.
I have no idea what you are trying to say. We *are* building wind and solar everywhere. I find it surprising when I see new housing going up *without* solar roofs.
Also their laziness is way more visible. If I post to slashdot from work, my boss only knows if he happens to be reading slashdot. If you have to walk outside and put yourself on display to smoke, you get a lot more negative attention.
I'm surprised that any establishments still allow smoking. As a non-smoker, I would never voluntarily go to a casino that allowed smoking. I was at a company event in the Cosmopolitan a few years ago. I didn't notice any smoke anywhere so I don't know if the air exchangers were good, there just weren't any smokers at the time, or if it wasn't allowed.
I lived in NJ when NYC banned all indoor smoking. The bar/restaurant owners thought it would be the end of the world. Then suddenly that had this huge influx of people from NJ who would pay to cross the bridge and pay NYC prices to go to smoke-free establishments.
At this point, I'm surprised that any business finds it more profitable to allow smoking.
I also don't know of any hotel chains that allow smoking in their buildings (although I'm sure some low-end ones do)
Um I have no idea what industry you are in. I can tell you that we have many unfilled openings due to not finding qualified candidates. We've never asked anybody if they smoke and don't do drug tests.
What's the alternative? Don't do the background checks and then something bad happens and it comes out in an audit that we didn't do them? You can't skip due diligence in life.
I was actually in this situation one time. We actually hired a few consultants from one of the major well-known vendors. Since we were on a desperate timeline, we let them start work while the background checks were in process. They got two weeks in, the background checks came back, and they got walked to the door throwing our whole schedule into disarray.
Almost all employers do things like background checks *after* they have agreed to hire you. This is one of the things that goes in the "due diligence" bucket.
Those who feel they are negotiating from a strong position will probably do exactly this. And those who aren't negotiating from a strong position, will get taken advantage of. Now, it's illegal. Most of these restrictions are there to protect the weak not the strong and that's something we should celebrate.
Because then they will verify this as a condition of your job offer, find out you were lying, and disqualify you. Dishonesty is always a high-risk lay where one mistake will cost you.
I'd mode parent up if I could give two mode points to match my karma bonus. If you were to build a giant able and memorize it, this would not be cheating. But if you are running the script while playing, this is the same as having a bot play on your behalf. Counting cards is not disallowed in the same way as this. You're welcome to count in your head (although you'll get ejected when you get discovered) OTOH, if you count using a computer or if you collude with the dealer, you go to jail. You can sit at the table with a "basic strategy" card. But you have to remember the count-based adjustments in your head.
Well congratulations on the +5 Funny, but if they are going to keep Windows machines around, this means they have to the Windows/10 training *in addition* to the Linux training. If they really could have made the Linux transition, that would have been great. But they were stuck in an expensive transition mode where Windows was never eliminated.
Well congratulations on your +5, but if one piece of software costs $0 to purchase and $1000 to train the users and another costs $200 to purchase and $0 to train the users, yeah, I would say that the "expensive" software is cheaper. I would say that you don't have to be *credulous* to believe that. In this case, it certainly seems to be true as the city was keeping Windows machines around so now they have to train everybody twice!
Right. The fact that the OS provides the feature doesn't mean that all apps *use* the feature. The issue here is that iOS doesn't provide it. Chrome *ought* to be using UAC for this.
This cannot be done on Windows. If you put up a login screen, people have to press ctrl-alt-delete. If they see a login screen without having pressed this, they will know it's bogus. If they press ctrl-alt-delete, a real Windows screen will come up. So you can't put up a fake login screen. Mobile phones need something similar. i.e. you have to touch the "home" button for any password entry and if somebody touches the home button take them to the real home so they can't be fooled. Sorry but this is a platform issue.l
I've said before that what will happen is that the gas stations will get converted to lush, green parks with plugs. While the car is charging, people will do something physically active with their families. In additional to saving all of that gas burning, the new parks will actively cleanse the air. Plus people will engage in more athletic recreation for health. And the emotional benefit will lead to significantly reduced incidence of mental health disorders. And everybody will get a pony. Okay not the last one.
Of course there is no turnout when the vote doesn't matter. What else would you expect?! Turnout is only 50% when it does matter. I'd say this is a pretty strong showing.
I'm not sure how you got this from my post. The point of a software system isn't to meet user's needs at a point in time. It's to meet them on an ongoing basis. As the world changes, computer science advances, and computational capabilities increase, it's only reasonable to expect new requirements to come along. Building good systems that help drive the next set of requirements will usually lead to job security but the way you phrased it adds a cynicism not present in my post.
This is a favorite thing to say and an easy way to get modded up. The reality is that, if we understand something well enough to have solid requirements, there probably isn't a lot of value in the software and, even if there is, it probably already exists. High value software lets us create systems that increase our understanding of the underlying problem and, therefore, generate new requirements. Anybody can go out and re-implement a linked list. Create a good platform for something and it will spark creativity of the users leading to never-ending requirements and job security (while we continue to complain about lack of up front requirements)
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But neither was owning slaves and we wouldn't give slave owners such a free pass. Back then people married young because they didn't live all that long. From a biological standpoint, it makes sense to procreate as soon as physically able. Modern society has changed many things. I think it's fair to judge past behavior based on different circumstances but not different moral standards.
It doesn't have to get to the same size to consume the same CO2 since the process of growing actually sequesters CO2
What about a dot matrix printer?
Almost everything we use these days has a built-in battery. It's not even clear that, for residential purposes, we even need continuous electricity. If I had power 50% of the time in my house, I wouldn't even notice. Plug the phone in at night and instead of charging up by midnight, it's done at 2am. How would I know? My heater/AC don't run constantly. They're only on about 50% of the time. Computer? That has a big battery too. Car? As long as it is charged by morning. Clothes dryer? Well, I guess if I'm in a hurry. Lights. Well those would be trivial to add a tiny battery. Sure for hospitals and other such safety-critical infrastructure we need 100% continuous electricity, but I don't think I'd even notice if mine were off half the time.
I have no idea what you are trying to say. We *are* building wind and solar everywhere. I find it surprising when I see new housing going up *without* solar roofs.
Also their laziness is way more visible. If I post to slashdot from work, my boss only knows if he happens to be reading slashdot. If you have to walk outside and put yourself on display to smoke, you get a lot more negative attention.
I'm surprised that any establishments still allow smoking. As a non-smoker, I would never voluntarily go to a casino that allowed smoking. I was at a company event in the Cosmopolitan a few years ago. I didn't notice any smoke anywhere so I don't know if the air exchangers were good, there just weren't any smokers at the time, or if it wasn't allowed. I lived in NJ when NYC banned all indoor smoking. The bar/restaurant owners thought it would be the end of the world. Then suddenly that had this huge influx of people from NJ who would pay to cross the bridge and pay NYC prices to go to smoke-free establishments. At this point, I'm surprised that any business finds it more profitable to allow smoking. I also don't know of any hotel chains that allow smoking in their buildings (although I'm sure some low-end ones do)
Um I have no idea what industry you are in. I can tell you that we have many unfilled openings due to not finding qualified candidates. We've never asked anybody if they smoke and don't do drug tests.
What's the alternative? Don't do the background checks and then something bad happens and it comes out in an audit that we didn't do them? You can't skip due diligence in life.
I was actually in this situation one time. We actually hired a few consultants from one of the major well-known vendors. Since we were on a desperate timeline, we let them start work while the background checks were in process. They got two weeks in, the background checks came back, and they got walked to the door throwing our whole schedule into disarray.
Almost all employers do things like background checks *after* they have agreed to hire you. This is one of the things that goes in the "due diligence" bucket.
Those who feel they are negotiating from a strong position will probably do exactly this. And those who aren't negotiating from a strong position, will get taken advantage of. Now, it's illegal. Most of these restrictions are there to protect the weak not the strong and that's something we should celebrate.
Because then they will verify this as a condition of your job offer, find out you were lying, and disqualify you. Dishonesty is always a high-risk lay where one mistake will cost you.
I'd mode parent up if I could give two mode points to match my karma bonus. If you were to build a giant able and memorize it, this would not be cheating. But if you are running the script while playing, this is the same as having a bot play on your behalf. Counting cards is not disallowed in the same way as this. You're welcome to count in your head (although you'll get ejected when you get discovered) OTOH, if you count using a computer or if you collude with the dealer, you go to jail. You can sit at the table with a "basic strategy" card. But you have to remember the count-based adjustments in your head.
Well congratulations on the +5 Funny, but if they are going to keep Windows machines around, this means they have to the Windows/10 training *in addition* to the Linux training. If they really could have made the Linux transition, that would have been great. But they were stuck in an expensive transition mode where Windows was never eliminated.
Well congratulations on your +5, but if one piece of software costs $0 to purchase and $1000 to train the users and another costs $200 to purchase and $0 to train the users, yeah, I would say that the "expensive" software is cheaper. I would say that you don't have to be *credulous* to believe that. In this case, it certainly seems to be true as the city was keeping Windows machines around so now they have to train everybody twice!
It takes courage to post a comment that appreciates Windows!
Right. The fact that the OS provides the feature doesn't mean that all apps *use* the feature. The issue here is that iOS doesn't provide it. Chrome *ought* to be using UAC for this.
Windows solved this in the 1990s with ctrl-alt-del.
This cannot be done on Windows. If you put up a login screen, people have to press ctrl-alt-delete. If they see a login screen without having pressed this, they will know it's bogus. If they press ctrl-alt-delete, a real Windows screen will come up. So you can't put up a fake login screen. Mobile phones need something similar. i.e. you have to touch the "home" button for any password entry and if somebody touches the home button take them to the real home so they can't be fooled. Sorry but this is a platform issue.l
I've said before that what will happen is that the gas stations will get converted to lush, green parks with plugs. While the car is charging, people will do something physically active with their families. In additional to saving all of that gas burning, the new parks will actively cleanse the air. Plus people will engage in more athletic recreation for health. And the emotional benefit will lead to significantly reduced incidence of mental health disorders. And everybody will get a pony. Okay not the last one.
Of course there is no turnout when the vote doesn't matter. What else would you expect?! Turnout is only 50% when it does matter. I'd say this is a pretty strong showing.
I'm not sure how you got this from my post. The point of a software system isn't to meet user's needs at a point in time. It's to meet them on an ongoing basis. As the world changes, computer science advances, and computational capabilities increase, it's only reasonable to expect new requirements to come along. Building good systems that help drive the next set of requirements will usually lead to job security but the way you phrased it adds a cynicism not present in my post.
This is a favorite thing to say and an easy way to get modded up. The reality is that, if we understand something well enough to have solid requirements, there probably isn't a lot of value in the software and, even if there is, it probably already exists. High value software lets us create systems that increase our understanding of the underlying problem and, therefore, generate new requirements. Anybody can go out and re-implement a linked list. Create a good platform for something and it will spark creativity of the users leading to never-ending requirements and job security (while we continue to complain about lack of up front requirements)
Stop flying drones around the Australian outback!