... and this is where the argument for the free market breaks down. That is massively valuable, but a stupid boss won't see that. Pure free market business can work efficiently only with the assumption that people are well informed and make intelligent decisions.
No, this is where the argument for the free market is PROVED. The TSA is a government agency, not a free-market business. The boss isn't paid to do a good job, which would produce satisfied customers and therefore a profit. The boss is paid to keep the next boss up the chain from being embarrassed.
That's why "Jennifer" was fired. She embarrassed the TSA.
If the TSA were a free-market business, it would have acted on "Jennifer's" info, improved itself, and advertised that fact to potential customers.
In the free market, companies with too many "stupid bosses" go out of business, leaving the better ones around to do their jobs. In the government (including TSA), stupid bosses get promoted.
Because the USA is run by Big Business, who can give unlimited money to candidates for office. You can be fired here for no stated reason at all.
Irrelevant -- the TSA is a government agency, not a business. TSA screeners are government employees. It's very hard in the USA to fire a government employee, unless the employee embarrasses the government agency.
The "Computers" merit badge requirements were updated in 2005. The new requirements are here. You were looking at the 1993 requirements -- which unfortunately was the last revision before 2005.
The merit badge system is not really well-suited to rapidly-changing subjects. After all, kids working on advancement requirements have to know in advance what they have to do. It's not fair to them to change requirements frequently. Fortunately, most of the merit badges are in subjects that don't change all that rapidy -- camping, hiking, swimming, first aid, etc.
Then again as Woodbadger pointed out about, this copyright thing is not actually a merit badge.
And yes, as an Eagle Scout, I can confirm that Envinronmental Science is the "hardest" -- at least in that it requires the most writing.
jocknerd writes: Forget what the RIAA says. I can rip my CD's to my iPod. Why? Because the technology is there and the courts have granted me Fair Use rights.
This was done under a program name of "Timofeev". Timofeev is just a common Russian last name and seems to have no special meaning (not referring to a lead scientist/government official, etc).
Timofeev is also the name given by the Soviet government to the son of a husband-and-wife American Communist Party (CPUSA) officials who was left behind in Russia (on Soviet orders) when his parents returned to the U.S.
Maybe the name does have some significance, if it was loking for US items on the moon.
It's actually easier to move and keep the same phone number with VoIP. With VoIP, you can take your equipment and phone anywhere there's a broadband connection, and have the same phone number.
You can take your equipment with you when you travel and get calls just like you're at home, even if it's in anouther country (assuming there's broadband where you travel too). If you move, you probably don't even have to tell them you moved, unless they need your mailing address.
How is this "admirable from a capitalist viewpoint"?
Protecting the image of one client by blowing your credibility with all other actual and potential clients is not "capitalist," it's stupid. It's the sort of thing that put Arthur Andersen out of business for covering for Enron.
Heck, even Microsoft should think twice before trusting @Stake now; they should assume everything @Stake tells them is just brown-nosing...
Coca-Cola Inc. once fired an executive found in possession of some Pepsi.
I think you can be fired for any reason at all, except a few enumerated exceptions (race, gender, disability, religion (unless you're Christian), etc.)
From @Stake's point of view, he damaged their relationship with a client, and even if he did it on his own time, that's surely not one of the enumerated exceptions.
(Of course, I think this was probably dumb, since @Stake's reputation with all their other clients -- that is, their general credibility -- has now been damaged by the firing. But @Stake has a legal right to be stupid.)
If you check the Google cache, you'll see that Dr. Geer was #2 two at the company. Whatever the cause, he was not fires by a "middle management type." He was upper management, so he must have been fired by more-upper management!
Nice try with the beef, but he mostly ate canned tuna. His cholesterol is and always has been within normal limits, and that has little or nothing to do with CHF anyway.
And I'm sorry, but humans have been eating carbohydrates since way before the 1890s. Most of Asia has been subsisting on rice for centuries. If Adkins were right, all the Asians would be overweight.
It's really very simple -- Calories In minus Calories out = net change in weight.
You need balance and variety, and that includes a certain amount of carbohydrates. If you don't get that, you'll build up ketones in your blood, which will wipe out your kidneys. (Hyperketonosis.)
I don't know why I got modded as "funny." I was actually serious.
I've talked to more doctors since that happened, and basically they told me that if your kidney function is normal, you can do Adkins safely for about two weeks at a time. More than that is risky, even for healthy people. I'm not a doctor, but if I were you I'd talk to one before staying on it for another 2 months!
You can probably solve the problem just by adding some minimum about of carbs per day. I dunno, maybe a bowl or two of rice would be enough. But ask the doctor(s) in any case.
As for my father -- he was in fairly good health, with no heart problems before Adkins. He was a bit overweight, and had respiratory allergies, but that was it. He is not that old (early 60s). I'm not sure how long he was on it, but I heard him talking about it (and trying to get me on it) for several months.
Every doctor I discussed it with said I'd be better off staying fat than doing Adkins, except the one who said I might be able to do it for two weeks if I got my kidney function tested first.
I'm taking my own way to losing weight -- slow but steady. I'd rather lose a pound a week for two years than 100 pounds in two or three months.
I don't see a way out, other than over the border.
With all due respect, no one is forcing you to stay.
You are in America, right? Well, in America everyone has a right to leave. Don't scoff; this is not true in every country! (Exceptions: North Korea, China, Iraq until three weeks ago, USSR when it existed, etc.)
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... and this is where the argument for the free market breaks down. That is massively valuable, but a stupid boss won't see that. Pure free market business can work efficiently only with the assumption that people are well informed and make intelligent decisions.
No, this is where the argument for the free market is PROVED. The TSA is a government agency, not a free-market business. The boss isn't paid to do a good job, which would produce satisfied customers and therefore a profit. The boss is paid to keep the next boss up the chain from being embarrassed.
That's why "Jennifer" was fired. She embarrassed the TSA.
If the TSA were a free-market business, it would have acted on "Jennifer's" info, improved itself, and advertised that fact to potential customers.
In the free market, companies with too many "stupid bosses" go out of business, leaving the better ones around to do their jobs. In the government (including TSA), stupid bosses get promoted.
Because the USA is run by Big Business, who can give unlimited money to candidates for office. You can be fired here for no stated reason at all.
Irrelevant -- the TSA is a government agency, not a business. TSA screeners are government employees. It's very hard in the USA to fire a government employee, unless the employee embarrasses the government agency.
This should really improve LAX Security, right? ;-)
The "Computers" merit badge requirements were updated in 2005. The new requirements are here. You were looking at the 1993 requirements -- which unfortunately was the last revision before 2005.
The merit badge system is not really well-suited to rapidly-changing subjects. After all, kids working on advancement requirements have to know in advance what they have to do. It's not fair to them to change requirements frequently. Fortunately, most of the merit badges are in subjects that don't change all that rapidy -- camping, hiking, swimming, first aid, etc.
Then again as Woodbadger pointed out about, this copyright thing is not actually a merit badge.
And yes, as an Eagle Scout, I can confirm that Envinronmental Science is the "hardest" -- at least in that it requires the most writing.
jocknerd writes:
Forget what the RIAA says. I can rip my CD's to my iPod. Why? Because the technology is there and the courts have granted me Fair Use rights.
No, it's Congress that granted you fair use rights. See U.S. Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107.
This may have originally been a judicial concept, but it was written into the law by Congress in 1977.
This was done under a program name of "Timofeev". Timofeev is just a common Russian last name and seems to have no special meaning (not referring to a lead scientist/government official, etc).
Timofeev is also the name given by the Soviet government to the son of a husband-and-wife American Communist Party (CPUSA) officials who was left behind in Russia (on Soviet orders) when his parents returned to the U.S.
Maybe the name does have some significance, if it was loking for US items on the moon.
This is slashdot -- shouldn't we be saying "Happy GNU Year"? :-)
What's the difference?
Try the same address on Netscape, and you'll see the whole URL, not just the fake part.
True -- but fortunately there are fewer and fewer places like that as time goes on.
It's actually easier to move and keep the same phone number with VoIP. With VoIP, you can take your equipment and phone anywhere there's a broadband connection, and have the same phone number.
You can take your equipment with you when you travel and get calls just like you're at home, even if it's in anouther country (assuming there's broadband where you travel too). If you move, you probably don't even have to tell them you moved, unless they need your mailing address.
"Whoever says a dollar number first loses!"
Ask them to make you an offer of what they think the project is worth to them -- per hour, or per change, whatever.
If you like the offer, take it. If not, make a counter-offer according to everybody else's suggestings.
Every time I have mentioned a number first, I've been sorry.
How is this "admirable from a capitalist viewpoint"?
Protecting the image of one client by blowing your credibility with all other actual and potential clients is not "capitalist," it's stupid. It's the sort of thing that put Arthur Andersen out of business for covering for Enron.
Heck, even Microsoft should think twice before trusting @Stake now; they should assume everything @Stake tells them is just brown-nosing...
Coca-Cola Inc. once fired an executive found in possession of some Pepsi.
I think you can be fired for any reason at all, except a few enumerated exceptions (race, gender, disability, religion (unless you're Christian), etc.)
From @Stake's point of view, he damaged their relationship with a client, and even if he did it on his own time, that's surely not one of the enumerated exceptions.
(Of course, I think this was probably dumb, since @Stake's reputation with all their other clients -- that is, their general credibility -- has now been damaged by the firing. But @Stake has a legal right to be stupid.)
If you check the Google cache, you'll see that Dr. Geer was #2 two at the company. Whatever the cause, he was not fires by a "middle management type." He was upper management, so he must have been fired by more-upper management!
Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-)
I aliases that to 'lt' ;-)
Rayovac batteries leak. Don't buy them.
Trust 3 doctors at a top-5 medical center, or some Anonymous Coward on slashdot?
Well, it's a free country, so do whatever you want.
Nice try with the beef, but he mostly ate canned tuna. His cholesterol is and always has been within normal limits, and that has little or nothing to do with CHF anyway.
And I'm sorry, but humans have been eating carbohydrates since way before the 1890s. Most of Asia has been subsisting on rice for centuries. If Adkins were right, all the Asians would be overweight.
It's really very simple -- Calories In minus Calories out = net change in weight.
You need balance and variety, and that includes a certain amount of carbohydrates. If you don't get that, you'll build up ketones in your blood, which will wipe out your kidneys. (Hyperketonosis.)
I don't know why I got modded as "funny." I was actually serious.
I've talked to more doctors since that happened, and basically they told me that if your kidney function is normal, you can do Adkins safely for about two weeks at a time. More than that is risky, even for healthy people. I'm not a doctor, but if I were you I'd talk to one before staying on it for another 2 months!
You can probably solve the problem just by adding some minimum about of carbs per day. I dunno, maybe a bowl or two of rice would be enough. But ask the doctor(s) in any case.
As for my father -- he was in fairly good health, with no heart problems before Adkins. He was a bit overweight, and had respiratory allergies, but that was it. He is not that old (early 60s). I'm not sure how long he was on it, but I heard him talking about it (and trying to get me on it) for several months.
Every doctor I discussed it with said I'd be better off staying fat than doing Adkins, except the one who said I might be able to do it for two weeks if I got my kidney function tested first.
I'm taking my own way to losing weight -- slow but steady. I'd rather lose a pound a week for two years than 100 pounds in two or three months.
My Dad lost a lot of weight on Adkins ... but it killed his kidneys and that caused congestive heart failure.
Three doctors have told me that staying fat is healthier than doing Adkins.
I have yet to see a C700 on sale on eBay, and I do check every once in a while. I take that to mean that people who have them, like them.
It looks from the pictures like the new models (C750, C760) have flat "membrane" keyboards, and the the C700 has actual keys.
Is that true?
I don't see a way out, other than over the border.
With all due respect, no one is forcing you to stay.
You are in America, right? Well, in America everyone has a right to leave. Don't scoff; this is not true in every country! (Exceptions: North Korea, China, Iraq until three weeks ago, USSR when it existed, etc.)