The argument made in the bakery case is that a company selling to the general public must sell its product to everyone regardless of terms and conditions. Otherwise said bakery could have a written and posted term and condition that exempts them from decorating gay themed wedding cakes.
No, the argument made for the bakery was that Oregon state law explicitly forbids retail businesses from discriminating against or refusing to sell to customers on the basis of their sexual orientation. The bakery could have refused to sell to the couple because they weren't wearing shoes if it wanted to, but it could not, by law, refuse to sell to them because they were gay.
And anyone who thinks the bakery's Constitutional rights were violated will need to challenge the Oregon law on that basis in a Federal court. Good luck.
You know how when you're playing a videogame, sometimes when you're worried that the next part might get tricky, you save your game so that you don't have to start over from the beginning when everything gets screwed up? They're doing that for documents. And you can give the "save points" names, so you know which one's which.
Damore is arguing against the position that 100% of gender differences are due to discrimination.
Most companies I know of speak in terms of encouraging diversity, not rooting out the causes of internal discrimination. (It's all part of that whole "being constructive" thing.) I doubt very few people at Google hold the opinion that active discrimination is to blame for why people get turned away from jobs at Google, even 1 percent of the time.
You might want to look up the term "at-will employment," a term that I 100 percent guarantee you was in Damore's employment contract with Google. Google was within its rights to terminate Damore for any reason or for no reason.
Clearly mr. Damore believes that unworthy people have been hired to meet HR diversity rules,
I have heard tales of woe of the unworthy people who have landed jobs at Google. But more often they got there by having advanced degrees and an aptitude for solving puzzles, as demonstrated in the interview process, rather than any aptitude for doing actual work. Diversity policies had nothing to do with it.
Unfortunately, for all the biased organizations out there, firing someone for political beliefs is illegal.
But firing someone for disobeying a corporate policy that they signed as a condition of their employment is not. That includes a code of conduct, which I'm certain Google has.
Yeah, well allow me to say that day looks a long way off to me.
Today, we've got the world's biologists still arguing over the concept of animal intelligence and what that might look like, if it even exists. Meanwhile, half the world still talks to cats and dogs.
Will we ever develop a machine that seems so intelligent that reasonable humans will tend to anthropomorphize it? Sure, it's a called a Furby. But then, a great many humans think a North American AC power outlet looks like a face.
I don't know about iOS, but the Android phones I've used definitely don't have a GPS lock going all the time. In fact, I've seen it take a minute or two to get a lock, and even then it keeps chatting with the satellites to narrow down your location. That's got to be power hungry by itself, but in the meantime, Google Maps is undoubtedly using WiFi and cellular triangulation to get a preliminary result. All that network traffic is bound to burn some battery.
Itantium and their IoT tanked not because it was bad but because of their own bad behavior.
Oh? Not being backward compatible with x86 had nothing to do with it? Underestimating AMD, nothing? Can't really blame 'em for throwing up their hands and giving the market what it asks for.
Google has been doing phone app prompts for 2FA for a while.
If you're talking about the Google Authenticator app, then yes, this is different. I started using it on my Galaxy S7 this week.
The way it works is, you hit your username and login, and instead of a screen that asks you to type in the code you received, it basically just says "Wake up your phone." When you do, you immediately see a screen saying, "Is this you trying to login? Yes/No." You hit the Yes button and the site instantly logs you in. It's pretty slick, actually.
But that's obvious. How would the insurance business work if the insurance company constantly had to pay out to every client?
That's why dental insurance typically has such poor coverage, for example. For a lot of people, even if they have a health plan with their employer, they generally stay away from doctors as much as possible. But what do people do when they get dental insurance? Go get their teeth cleaned, and they do it twice a year if they follow their dentist's advice. And if either of those appointments yields a cavity or two -- or worse -- that's even more charges. The insurance company needs to cover its own costs first.
Robbed on the Metro. They can spot foreigners and know that foreigners carry cash because only idiots travel without cash. Got hit in the ribs and lost $900.
I always carry some cash with me but there's never any reason to carry around that much cash, especially when you know the camera around your neck and your Hawaiian print shirt are going to make you a target. Even before they invented ATMs (and your card should certainly work in Paris and give you a much better exchange rate than you'd get from a money changer) people carried travelers' checks for exactly this reason.
Banks only charge you fees to withdraw money from other banks' ATMs. The owner of the ATM may also charge you money.
If you keep enough in your bank account, your bank might waive these fees, at least a couple of times a month. There are also some banks, or in particular credit unions, which will not charge you fees for using ATMs and even reimburse you for the fees you get charged.
Are you sure you're not paying with your UK card, though? Most U.S. credit card companies now charge international transaction fees of 1-2 percent per transaction. I don't know if it's the same for UK banks. There are some exceptions; Capital One credit cards, for example, do not charge international transaction fees (because of the bank's structure, it is forbidden to by regulation), which is the primary reason I keep one handy.
True story (from the U.S.): My mom's husband once went through the aisle at a Target (cheap department store) and bought a couple bags worth of stuff with a credit card. After the cashier rang him up, he waited in the aisle, looking puzzled, until the cashier asked him what was the matter. He said, "You never gave me my card back."
She: "Oh yes, I did."
He: "No you didn't. It's in your front breast pocket."
And without a word, she took it out and handed it back to him. Presumably her thought was that because he was elderly, he would assume he'd made a mistake. He wouldn't have time to double-check, though, until he made it back to his car with his hands full of shopping bags. That would give her more than enough time to copy down all his card information, and when he came back to say his card really was missing, she could pretend she had found it on the floor.
I had a card with no raised numbers on it. I think they did it to make the card look cool/important. (This is a thing in the U.S. lately -- is not it true elsewhere?) They must have rethunk it, though, because when the card eventually expired, the replacement that came in the mail had raised numbers again.
That isn't format shifting. It may be legal where you live, but in most places I'm sure it wouldn't be. If you want to format shift, you do it from the copy you own.
Many modern vinyl records come with a code that allows you to download a digital copy, completely legally and DRM-free.
The legality of going outside the record label to get your digital files is a little unclear, too. Go check listings for CDs and records on Amazon, for example. You'll find that many include a digital (meaning MP3) copy as well -- only in this case it's Amazon that's providing it, not the record label. The service is called "AutoRip."
Believe it or not, cassette tapes are already making a comeback with indy labels, so we're creeping that direction. I bet if there was anyplace to manufacture 8-tracks, somebody would already be doing it.
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The argument made in the bakery case is that a company selling to the general public must sell its product to everyone regardless of terms and conditions. Otherwise said bakery could have a written and posted term and condition that exempts them from decorating gay themed wedding cakes.
No, the argument made for the bakery was that Oregon state law explicitly forbids retail businesses from discriminating against or refusing to sell to customers on the basis of their sexual orientation. The bakery could have refused to sell to the couple because they weren't wearing shoes if it wanted to, but it could not, by law, refuse to sell to them because they were gay.
And anyone who thinks the bakery's Constitutional rights were violated will need to challenge the Oregon law on that basis in a Federal court. Good luck.
What, exactly, are they introducing and why?
You know how when you're playing a videogame, sometimes when you're worried that the next part might get tricky, you save your game so that you don't have to start over from the beginning when everything gets screwed up? They're doing that for documents. And you can give the "save points" names, so you know which one's which.
Actually, citation needed. Last I heard, Google had diversity hiring goals, not quotas. Which isn't the same thing, including under California law.
Damore is arguing against the position that 100% of gender differences are due to discrimination.
Most companies I know of speak in terms of encouraging diversity, not rooting out the causes of internal discrimination. (It's all part of that whole "being constructive" thing.) I doubt very few people at Google hold the opinion that active discrimination is to blame for why people get turned away from jobs at Google, even 1 percent of the time.
You might want to look up the term "at-will employment," a term that I 100 percent guarantee you was in Damore's employment contract with Google. Google was within its rights to terminate Damore for any reason or for no reason.
Clearly mr. Damore believes that unworthy people have been hired to meet HR diversity rules,
I have heard tales of woe of the unworthy people who have landed jobs at Google. But more often they got there by having advanced degrees and an aptitude for solving puzzles, as demonstrated in the interview process, rather than any aptitude for doing actual work. Diversity policies had nothing to do with it.
Unfortunately, for all the biased organizations out there, firing someone for political beliefs is illegal.
But firing someone for disobeying a corporate policy that they signed as a condition of their employment is not. That includes a code of conduct, which I'm certain Google has.
Measles is deadly and highly contagious.
In fact, measles is pretty much THE most contagious disease we know of.
Yeah, well allow me to say that day looks a long way off to me.
Today, we've got the world's biologists still arguing over the concept of animal intelligence and what that might look like, if it even exists. Meanwhile, half the world still talks to cats and dogs.
Will we ever develop a machine that seems so intelligent that reasonable humans will tend to anthropomorphize it? Sure, it's a called a Furby. But then, a great many humans think a North American AC power outlet looks like a face.
I don't know about iOS, but the Android phones I've used definitely don't have a GPS lock going all the time. In fact, I've seen it take a minute or two to get a lock, and even then it keeps chatting with the satellites to narrow down your location. That's got to be power hungry by itself, but in the meantime, Google Maps is undoubtedly using WiFi and cellular triangulation to get a preliminary result. All that network traffic is bound to burn some battery.
Itantium and their IoT tanked not because it was bad but because of their own bad behavior.
Oh? Not being backward compatible with x86 had nothing to do with it? Underestimating AMD, nothing? Can't really blame 'em for throwing up their hands and giving the market what it asks for.
Oh please. Robert Mueller investigation into Trump is staffed with people whom have had direct campaigning with the Clintons.
And this means anything, given that neither Clinton currently holds public office nor has announced plans to run?
Bad calls are a part of baseball. Instant replay is the devil.
Google has been doing phone app prompts for 2FA for a while.
If you're talking about the Google Authenticator app, then yes, this is different. I started using it on my Galaxy S7 this week.
The way it works is, you hit your username and login, and instead of a screen that asks you to type in the code you received, it basically just says "Wake up your phone." When you do, you immediately see a screen saying, "Is this you trying to login? Yes/No." You hit the Yes button and the site instantly logs you in. It's pretty slick, actually.
If you have a credit card and the thief wants to know the PIN number, and you do not know it, that could be nasty.
Ha! America wins again ... our credit cards don't have PINs.
But that's obvious. How would the insurance business work if the insurance company constantly had to pay out to every client?
That's why dental insurance typically has such poor coverage, for example. For a lot of people, even if they have a health plan with their employer, they generally stay away from doctors as much as possible. But what do people do when they get dental insurance? Go get their teeth cleaned, and they do it twice a year if they follow their dentist's advice. And if either of those appointments yields a cavity or two -- or worse -- that's even more charges. The insurance company needs to cover its own costs first.
Here in San Francisco, I think phone theft is not just the #1 type of robbery, it's actually the #1 type of petty offense, period.
Robbed on the Metro. They can spot foreigners and know that foreigners carry cash because only idiots travel without cash. Got hit in the ribs and lost $900.
I always carry some cash with me but there's never any reason to carry around that much cash, especially when you know the camera around your neck and your Hawaiian print shirt are going to make you a target. Even before they invented ATMs (and your card should certainly work in Paris and give you a much better exchange rate than you'd get from a money changer) people carried travelers' checks for exactly this reason.
Banks only charge you fees to withdraw money from other banks' ATMs. The owner of the ATM may also charge you money.
If you keep enough in your bank account, your bank might waive these fees, at least a couple of times a month. There are also some banks, or in particular credit unions, which will not charge you fees for using ATMs and even reimburse you for the fees you get charged.
Are you sure you're not paying with your UK card, though? Most U.S. credit card companies now charge international transaction fees of 1-2 percent per transaction. I don't know if it's the same for UK banks. There are some exceptions; Capital One credit cards, for example, do not charge international transaction fees (because of the bank's structure, it is forbidden to by regulation), which is the primary reason I keep one handy.
Certainly not in Japan, either.
True story (from the U.S.): My mom's husband once went through the aisle at a Target (cheap department store) and bought a couple bags worth of stuff with a credit card. After the cashier rang him up, he waited in the aisle, looking puzzled, until the cashier asked him what was the matter. He said, "You never gave me my card back."
She: "Oh yes, I did."
He: "No you didn't. It's in your front breast pocket."
And without a word, she took it out and handed it back to him. Presumably her thought was that because he was elderly, he would assume he'd made a mistake. He wouldn't have time to double-check, though, until he made it back to his car with his hands full of shopping bags. That would give her more than enough time to copy down all his card information, and when he came back to say his card really was missing, she could pretend she had found it on the floor.
I had a card with no raised numbers on it. I think they did it to make the card look cool/important. (This is a thing in the U.S. lately -- is not it true elsewhere?) They must have rethunk it, though, because when the card eventually expired, the replacement that came in the mail had raised numbers again.
Been around since almost the beginning; if it continues like this I won't be around much longer. CIAO.
Cue the userid wars...
That isn't format shifting. It may be legal where you live, but in most places I'm sure it wouldn't be. If you want to format shift, you do it from the copy you own.
Many modern vinyl records come with a code that allows you to download a digital copy, completely legally and DRM-free.
The legality of going outside the record label to get your digital files is a little unclear, too. Go check listings for CDs and records on Amazon, for example. You'll find that many include a digital (meaning MP3) copy as well -- only in this case it's Amazon that's providing it, not the record label. The service is called "AutoRip."
Believe it or not, cassette tapes are already making a comeback with indy labels, so we're creeping that direction. I bet if there was anyplace to manufacture 8-tracks, somebody would already be doing it.