We already have the largest genitals of any primate. (Not to mention some humans have a second one sitting on their shoulders). Just how big did you want it to be? Besides anything that's not used to penetrate is wasted and in the way.
I can only assume such things are already in the trend data and as such, will fall into the noise category as an anomalous item. Various types of statistical analysis allow for such things.
Trends can be predicted but what happens if there's a change. Say the curriculum changes and one year a lot of school children are given a the flu to research. Or after (or worse during) an outbreak, school kids are taught to look into it.
Google has moved from being a company to an entity people have "faith" in. ie it's become religion. Want proof? Say something critical of Google and watch the modding rollercoaster.
Sad that a company that has maintained employee friendliness by reaming the customer by selling a product at roughly 5 times its value can't exist? I can understand people being upset that the quality of bricks will decline but I don't understand why people should feel sad that employees will no longer get a lot more than they're worth.
What's really sad is that I do think they can survive by getting a better sense of balance. Make the bricks 1.5-2x the price of cheap knockoffs and cut the perks out to something a little more reasonable (with less waste) and you can still have a nice family company even if the gym membership isn't quite what it use to be.
I like paying taxes. My tax money buys me civilization. I just hate freeloaders who want civilization without paying for it.
Agreed that pooling money for the common good to ensure we have public services like fire brigades and don't have a rule of the jungle type system is a good thing.
If you don't like civilization, don't live in it. There is plenty of unclaimed land all over the world where you can live without paying taxes to anyone. Have fun!
That's where you and I part company. How is that modded insightful? There isn't a piece of land on earth that doesn't belong to some country. (Technically Antarctica perhaps, but in practical terms you couldn't just move there if you wanted to).
A much more practical suggestion would be to become a hobbo and find a ghetto where you could be anonymous and live a cash existence. These still exist, and you may even be able to get away with renting without ID in some parts of the world. Of course even there you'll have to purchase a place to live and since you can't rely on communal services don't expect working services like water, electricity, or sewage. Also don't expect protection from the law when you're beaten, mugged or raped - they're only there to keep you contained in the ghetto...but you didn't want these services, remember.
You might also be able to pick up a pair of cheap binocs for under $50. 7x50s are great for astronomy. The optics won't be anything to write home about and there will be some purple fringing but I have bought usable binocs for under $50. (Note: DO NOT buy a cheap department store telescope. I have seen some nasty nasty rubbish for $50).
You might be able to buy a cheap camera, but it'll be rubbish.
Good gadgets seem to start at around $200. At that price, you can look at a radio scanner, a GPS...something of that nature.. Also you haven't told us how old your son is.
Of course you and I know that we should back up our data. But its hindsight talking, because we've probably lost data before too.
I just lost 2 one TB drives last month. By far the largest loss in terms of storage I've ever had. The only things I didn't have backed up were some VMWare Linux images I set up to get a feel for different distros about 6 months ago. I didn't lose a single photo or anything else of consequence.
If it's worth storing, it's worth backing up to a second drive, and it's also worth periodically backing up to an external drive.
I own 8 one TB drives for home use (mostly photo storage. I shoot gigabytes at a time when I have a day out with the camera). I had bought: 4 x 1TB Samsung (internal on a file and print server I bought in June...lots of fans, temps good, and I don't overclock) 2 x 1TB Western Digital Mybook (exeternal) 2 x 1TB Western Digital Mybook home (exeternal)
Two of the Samsung drives have died already. I had them replaced supposedly under warranty but had to pay $15 per drive for Seagates (which are slower SATA 1 drives) so I'm not thrilled with the company I used to build my latest file and print server.
I'm starting to question the wisdom of having gone with TB disks in the first place. Smaller disks haven't been as problematic. Although I was starting to think it was an issue with Samsung drives since I have had the drive on my Dell laptop, which was also a Samsung, replaced twice. The second time I requested a different brand and got Hitachi...which again is slower but seems more reliable (it doesn't make pinging noises for a start).
Reliable storage seems like a hard ask these days. I backup anything truly important to more than 2 disks (and keep one copy off site).
Well, if you RTFA, you'll see that Google's method applied to the past four years very closely mathches trend data collected by physicians in coordination with the CDC. The proof is in the pudding
Exactly, which is why I'll be impressed when they can do this ahead of time. I'm not holding my breath. Analysing data trends in existing data and concluding you can predict them is not impressive.
With regard to African practice, the phrase "indentured servitude" is more accurate than "slavery". And regardless of that, if you're going to use slavery to mean something other than the common variety, you really should make that clear. I could correct someone who says "Slaves don't get paid!", because in some cases they did earn wages, but that would be playing word games.
Actually I was thinking of ancient Rome. People would sell themselves into slavery to pay off debts (Better than your creditor killing you after all).
Nice dodge - the only reason I used the word "beating" was because it was the word you used.
You were the one who used the word beating to describe a boxing match, not me. Terrible analogy.
The point was that people have the right not to be physically harmed, but also can give up that right in quite a few situations - boxing, foreplay, (voluntary) military service, plastic surgery, etc. This demonstrates that voluntarily giving up basic rights is quite common.
If a boxer over-steps the bounds of the sports and tries to beat someone to death they can still be charged. If your foreplay results in permanent injury (you're a sick freak who should be put down) and you can be charged. If you engage in military service and your CO puts your life in danger for no reason he can be charged. If a plastic surgeon agrees to a procedure whose aim is to do harm he can be charged. In most jurisdictions, this is regardless of the co-operation of the victim (though in practice if the victim is willing to assist, it's much more likely to be prosecuted as it's easier to prove the charge). You cannot give up those rights, because a society where such things as inflicting harm are tolerated is affected, not just the victim.
First, the clause of the contract is enforceable in the state that the contract was signed in, so he had every reason to believe that it would be enforced. The only issue is whether or not his change of residence allows another state's laws to void part of the contract.
He shouldn't have signed. No argument there. However to advocate ending the man's career because of such a mistake is wrong and THAT is why I wrote my post.
Second, you're right that in most situations illegal clauses are simply struck, but if the someone signs a contract knowing that it is unenforceable then they're negotiating in bad faith, which drastically changes the situation.
Try and be logically consistent with your arguments please. It wasn't the entire contract that was unenforceable, so stop implying it was. Many contracts explicitly state that where a clause is unenforceable the rest of the contract is binding. They do not instruct that signing knowing a clause is not valid constitutes acting in bad faith, and not to sign until you are sure of all clauses. Even with legal advice that would not necessarily be possible. Phrases like acting in bad faith usually are reserved for those situations where you do not intend to honour the contract and perform the duties that you're being hired for. While some obligations are maintained even after the employment is terminated it is not reasonable to expect someone not to take up employment in their profession with another company. Trying to pull a stunt like THAT without compensating the employee is closer to acting in bad faith, than failing to mention that a clause in the contract may not be binding.
That's one way that people can lose their license, other ways include voluntarily relinquishing them and plea deals.
Plea deals are usually entered into when a defendant knows they are very likely to lose their case and usually refer to criminal action not a professional disciplinary board. Regardless in that situation it is the medical authority, not just the hospital that must be party to such a deal for it to be valid.
In my example the doctor's actions weren't bad enough for the board to revoke them, but bad enough for the hospital to prefer that he teach or retire.
Every time I say it I get modded down, but I won't let that deter me because this is just a message board.
Google does 2 things really well: - Search (including getting advertising revenue from search, and specialized search tools and engines like scholar) - Maps - Google Earth and Google Maps
I haven't seen another product or service from Google that I like. That includes Chrome, Picasa, Mail, Apps, Web Toolkit. It's all just buggy junk and typically it collects information about your usage of the product (sometimes in shady ways such as installing an update app that's hard to get rid of even if you uninstall)which raises privacy concerns).
Yet everything I hear, here and elsewhere is propaganda about how Google is revolutionizing this or that, or how it's such strong competition to Microsoft etc. That's just plain bullshit. I'm getting very tired of the Google propaganda, and even more tired of the attitude here that criticising Google means you should be modded into oblivion as a troll.
Look at how ridiculous this latest claim is. It should be reported as nonsense but instead it gets put on the front page as if it was a credible news story. I think Google could claim to cure cancer, find God and have a chat with him, end poverty and achieve world peace and there would still be people defending the claims. Google is just a company with a funky motto and a decent search engine that happened to appear at the right time. All you fan boys just get over it already.
I grew up with a heroin lab on one side and a dog owner on the other. The dog owner was a constant irritation from day one, with the dog barking at all hours and crapping on the lawn. The heroin lab were decent neighbors who didn't really affect us until the night the cops came. Make all the meth/heroin/whatever you want, but keep your blasted dogs away, I say!
Clearly the solution was to give the dog meth/heroin/whatever to stop it barking! Bet you're kicking yourself for not thinking of that now!
You can't sign up to be a slave any more than you can consent to be raped. That fact that slavery and rape are involuntary is what makes both of them so deeply immoral.
You might want to check your facts. People have sold themselves into slavery since antiquity. What happens after the act of selling yourself into slavery may be involuntary but that doesn't preclude the ability to choose to become a slave.
If people can't sign away their right to being beaten, then how can we have boxing matches?
Well sure you can argue agreeing to a boxing match means you've consented to a beating, but doing so requires supreme ignorance of how the sport works.
So they signed something with no intention of abiding by the agreement. Isn't that fraud?
No it's not fraud. Take a look at the law. If a condition in a contract is not enforceable because it breaks the law, the rest of the contract generally stands but that condition is struck off. What if a doctor nearly kills someone, and hospital asks them to give up their medical license in exchange for keeping their severance pay - is the doctor's "right to make a living in their chosen profession" more important than public safety?
The hospital has no such right. If such a deal is cut it isn't above board. A medical board makes a recommendation to revoke a medical license. The hospital can only present that board with the facts. There are procedures for this. If you can't make a distinction between a professional acting negligently or incompetently vs a restriction of trade, I really don't know what to tell you.
What if one of my employees does a terrible job and I let other people in the industry know about it - don't I have a right to free speech?
You in fact do have that right. However if you don't stick to the facts of the matter, you may have a defamation suite to answer.
Wow. Some people have opinions that you don't like, and you're completely incapable of handling it. You have a lot of growing up to do.
If people wish to hold opinions that aren't sensible or logical, then I will respond. If you don't like it, tough luck bud. It's called an internet message board. Take a look at the concept some time. As for your assessment that I have growing up to do, you don't know me or anything about me other than a random post you chose to respond to. The irony of someone doing that while accusing the other person of immaturity is just delicious. Not to mention the weak weak weak analogies you've put up while demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge of the law and a complete inability to distinguish between very different situations. Do you have any other idiotic analogies to throw my way? I need a good laugh.
We don't make any money when someone rents it, and we don't make any money when someone buys it used -- way more than twice as many people played Gears than bought it."
So what? A car manufacturer doesn't make money when a second hand car is sold. An actor doesn't get more money when a movie is rented.
This fiction that every time a product is used, the people who made said product deserve to be compensated just shows up how greedy these people are. It's never worked this way before, and if you take this position and have ever bought anything second hand you're a hypocrite. Get a clue.
He signed the non-compete. *HE* gave away his freedom. Not the State.
So if you sign a contract that sells you into slavery that should be permitted too? What about the right not to be beaten?
There are certain rights that it should not be possible to sign away. The right to earn a livelihood working in your profession should be one of them. How the hell does an AC get modded up for this on slashdot??? What exactly do you moderators do for a living? And why are you wanting to be so harsh about punishing someone for signing something unreasonable they probably believed wasn't enforceable. Shame on you all!
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Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution
Yeah, it's called "Jesus Christ"
You know a scientist named Hey-zeus Christ?
We already have the largest genitals of any primate. (Not to mention some humans have a second one sitting on their shoulders). Just how big did you want it to be? Besides anything that's not used to penetrate is wasted and in the way.
I can only assume such things are already in the trend data and as such, will fall into the noise category as an anomalous item. Various types of statistical analysis allow for such things.
Trends can be predicted but what happens if there's a change. Say the curriculum changes and one year a lot of school children are given a the flu to research. Or after (or worse during) an outbreak, school kids are taught to look into it.
Google has moved from being a company to an entity people have "faith" in. ie it's become religion. Want proof? Say something critical of Google and watch the modding rollercoaster.
Sad that a company that has maintained employee friendliness by reaming the customer by selling a product at roughly 5 times its value can't exist? I can understand people being upset that the quality of bricks will decline but I don't understand why people should feel sad that employees will no longer get a lot more than they're worth.
What's really sad is that I do think they can survive by getting a better sense of balance. Make the bricks 1.5-2x the price of cheap knockoffs and cut the perks out to something a little more reasonable (with less waste) and you can still have a nice family company even if the gym membership isn't quite what it use to be.
I like paying taxes. My tax money buys me civilization. I just hate freeloaders who want civilization without paying for it.
Agreed that pooling money for the common good to ensure we have public services like fire brigades and don't have a rule of the jungle type system is a good thing.
If you don't like civilization, don't live in it. There is plenty of unclaimed land all over the world where you can live without paying taxes to anyone. Have fun!
That's where you and I part company. How is that modded insightful? There isn't a piece of land on earth that doesn't belong to some country. (Technically Antarctica perhaps, but in practical terms you couldn't just move there if you wanted to).
A much more practical suggestion would be to become a hobbo and find a ghetto where you could be anonymous and live a cash existence. These still exist, and you may even be able to get away with renting without ID in some parts of the world. Of course even there you'll have to purchase a place to live and since you can't rely on communal services don't expect working services like water, electricity, or sewage. Also don't expect protection from the law when you're beaten, mugged or raped - they're only there to keep you contained in the ghetto...but you didn't want these services, remember.
Why has backward compatibility trumped security for 8 years?
Because the best security in the world is of no use or consequence if your hardware and software can't do the job.
Use the "Off" button when you're out for a movie, on a date with your girlfriend or having a beer with your buddies.
It will improve your social life, relieve some stress and you might stop looking like a pedantic ass.
It won't work. Your wife will still beat you up and take you for every cent you're worth when she finds out about your girlfriend.
...and what happens when a class gets a school project to do some research on influenza? Google predicts an outbreak?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/
You might also be able to pick up a pair of cheap binocs for under $50. 7x50s are great for astronomy. The optics won't be anything to write home about and there will be some purple fringing but I have bought usable binocs for under $50. (Note: DO NOT buy a cheap department store telescope. I have seen some nasty nasty rubbish for $50).
You might be able to buy a cheap camera, but it'll be rubbish.
Good gadgets seem to start at around $200. At that price, you can look at a radio scanner, a GPS...something of that nature.. Also you haven't told us how old your son is.
I observe solar cycles every day - the sun rises, then it sets. I'm pretty sure it's happened more than 24 times!!!
(For those that need a clue bat, the above is a joke and I do know what a solar cycle is).
Of course you and I know that we should back up our data. But its hindsight talking, because we've probably lost data before too.
I just lost 2 one TB drives last month. By far the largest loss in terms of storage I've ever had. The only things I didn't have backed up were some VMWare Linux images I set up to get a feel for different distros about 6 months ago. I didn't lose a single photo or anything else of consequence.
If it's worth storing, it's worth backing up to a second drive, and it's also worth periodically backing up to an external drive.
I own 8 one TB drives for home use (mostly photo storage. I shoot gigabytes at a time when I have a day out with the camera). I had bought:
4 x 1TB Samsung (internal on a file and print server I bought in June...lots of fans, temps good, and I don't overclock)
2 x 1TB Western Digital Mybook (exeternal)
2 x 1TB Western Digital Mybook home (exeternal)
Two of the Samsung drives have died already. I had them replaced supposedly under warranty but had to pay $15 per drive for Seagates (which are slower SATA 1 drives) so I'm not thrilled with the company I used to build my latest file and print server.
I'm starting to question the wisdom of having gone with TB disks in the first place. Smaller disks haven't been as problematic. Although I was starting to think it was an issue with Samsung drives since I have had the drive on my Dell laptop, which was also a Samsung, replaced twice. The second time I requested a different brand and got Hitachi...which again is slower but seems more reliable (it doesn't make pinging noises for a start).
Reliable storage seems like a hard ask these days. I backup anything truly important to more than 2 disks (and keep one copy off site).
Well, if you RTFA, you'll see that Google's method applied to the past four years very closely mathches trend data collected by physicians in coordination with the CDC. The proof is in the pudding
Exactly, which is why I'll be impressed when they can do this ahead of time. I'm not holding my breath. Analysing data trends in existing data and concluding you can predict them is not impressive.
With regard to African practice, the phrase "indentured servitude" is more accurate than "slavery". And regardless of that, if you're going to use slavery to mean something other than the common variety, you really should make that clear. I could correct someone who says "Slaves don't get paid!", because in some cases they did earn wages, but that would be playing word games.
Actually I was thinking of ancient Rome. People would sell themselves into slavery to pay off debts (Better than your creditor killing you after all).
Nice dodge - the only reason I used the word "beating" was because it was the word you used.
You were the one who used the word beating to describe a boxing match, not me. Terrible analogy.
The point was that people have the right not to be physically harmed, but also can give up that right in quite a few situations - boxing, foreplay, (voluntary) military service, plastic surgery, etc. This demonstrates that voluntarily giving up basic rights is quite common.
If a boxer over-steps the bounds of the sports and tries to beat someone to death they can still be charged. If your foreplay results in permanent injury (you're a sick freak who should be put down) and you can be charged. If you engage in military service and your CO puts your life in danger for no reason he can be charged. If a plastic surgeon agrees to a procedure whose aim is to do harm he can be charged. In most jurisdictions, this is regardless of the co-operation of the victim (though in practice if the victim is willing to assist, it's much more likely to be prosecuted as it's easier to prove the charge). You cannot give up those rights, because a society where such things as inflicting harm are tolerated is affected, not just the victim.
First, the clause of the contract is enforceable in the state that the contract was signed in, so he had every reason to believe that it would be enforced. The only issue is whether or not his change of residence allows another state's laws to void part of the contract.
He shouldn't have signed. No argument there. However to advocate ending the man's career because of such a mistake is wrong and THAT is why I wrote my post.
Second, you're right that in most situations illegal clauses are simply struck, but if the someone signs a contract knowing that it is unenforceable then they're negotiating in bad faith, which drastically changes the situation.
Try and be logically consistent with your arguments please. It wasn't the entire contract that was unenforceable, so stop implying it was. Many contracts explicitly state that where a clause is unenforceable the rest of the contract is binding. They do not instruct that signing knowing a clause is not valid constitutes acting in bad faith, and not to sign until you are sure of all clauses. Even with legal advice that would not necessarily be possible. Phrases like acting in bad faith usually are reserved for those situations where you do not intend to honour the contract and perform the duties that you're being hired for. While some obligations are maintained even after the employment is terminated it is not reasonable to expect someone not to take up employment in their profession with another company. Trying to pull a stunt like THAT without compensating the employee is closer to acting in bad faith, than failing to mention that a clause in the contract may not be binding.
That's one way that people can lose their license, other ways include voluntarily relinquishing them and plea deals.
Plea deals are usually entered into when a defendant knows they are very likely to lose their case and usually refer to criminal action not a professional disciplinary board. Regardless in that situation it is the medical authority, not just the hospital that must be party to such a deal for it to be valid.
In my example the doctor's actions weren't bad enough for the board to revoke them, but bad enough for the hospital to prefer that he teach or retire.
Every time I say it I get modded down, but I won't let that deter me because this is just a message board.
Google does 2 things really well:
- Search (including getting advertising revenue from search, and specialized search tools and engines like scholar)
- Maps - Google Earth and Google Maps
I haven't seen another product or service from Google that I like. That includes Chrome, Picasa, Mail, Apps, Web Toolkit. It's all just buggy junk and typically it collects information about your usage of the product (sometimes in shady ways such as installing an update app that's hard to get rid of even if you uninstall)which raises privacy concerns).
Yet everything I hear, here and elsewhere is propaganda about how Google is revolutionizing this or that, or how it's such strong competition to Microsoft etc. That's just plain bullshit. I'm getting very tired of the Google propaganda, and even more tired of the attitude here that criticising Google means you should be modded into oblivion as a troll.
Look at how ridiculous this latest claim is. It should be reported as nonsense but instead it gets put on the front page as if it was a credible news story. I think Google could claim to cure cancer, find God and have a chat with him, end poverty and achieve world peace and there would still be people defending the claims. Google is just a company with a funky motto and a decent search engine that happened to appear at the right time. All you fan boys just get over it already.
I grew up with a heroin lab on one side and a dog owner on the other. The dog owner was a constant irritation from day one, with the dog barking at all hours and crapping on the lawn. The heroin lab were decent neighbors who didn't really affect us until the night the cops came. Make all the meth/heroin/whatever you want, but keep your blasted dogs away, I say!
Clearly the solution was to give the dog meth/heroin/whatever to stop it barking! Bet you're kicking yourself for not thinking of that now!
(I kid of course!)
You can't sign up to be a slave any more than you can consent to be raped. That fact that slavery and rape are involuntary is what makes both of them so deeply immoral.
You might want to check your facts. People have sold themselves into slavery since antiquity. What happens after the act of selling yourself into slavery may be involuntary but that doesn't preclude the ability to choose to become a slave.
If people can't sign away their right to being beaten, then how can we have boxing matches?
Well sure you can argue agreeing to a boxing match means you've consented to a beating, but doing so requires supreme ignorance of how the sport works.
So they signed something with no intention of abiding by the agreement. Isn't that fraud?
No it's not fraud. Take a look at the law. If a condition in a contract is not enforceable because it breaks the law, the rest of the contract generally stands but that condition is struck off.
What if a doctor nearly kills someone, and hospital asks them to give up their medical license in exchange for keeping their severance pay - is the doctor's "right to make a living in their chosen profession" more important than public safety?
The hospital has no such right. If such a deal is cut it isn't above board. A medical board makes a recommendation to revoke a medical license. The hospital can only present that board with the facts. There are procedures for this. If you can't make a distinction between a professional acting negligently or incompetently vs a restriction of trade, I really don't know what to tell you.
What if one of my employees does a terrible job and I let other people in the industry know about it - don't I have a right to free speech?
You in fact do have that right. However if you don't stick to the facts of the matter, you may have a defamation suite to answer.
Wow. Some people have opinions that you don't like, and you're completely incapable of handling it. You have a lot of growing up to do.
If people wish to hold opinions that aren't sensible or logical, then I will respond. If you don't like it, tough luck bud. It's called an internet message board. Take a look at the concept some time. As for your assessment that I have growing up to do, you don't know me or anything about me other than a random post you chose to respond to. The irony of someone doing that while accusing the other person of immaturity is just delicious. Not to mention the weak weak weak analogies you've put up while demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge of the law and a complete inability to distinguish between very different situations. Do you have any other idiotic analogies to throw my way? I need a good laugh.
When did people on slashdot lose their geeky sense of humour.
I know what hydrogen audio is about. That's WHY the monster cable dig was funny/ironic to me.
By the way my favourite speakers cost me AUD68 (right now that'd be about USD45)
Questioning the council leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side.
Ahh so all roads lead to the EU Council then.
Just doing it's job!
At 16:42:34 AVG achieved sentience and decided that the user(32.dll) was the problem.
All your rights are belong to us.
Somebody set up us the bomb (and the people actually voted for them!)
You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha ....
We don't make any money when someone rents it, and we don't make any money when someone buys it used -- way more than twice as many people played Gears than bought it."
So what? A car manufacturer doesn't make money when a second hand car is sold. An actor doesn't get more money when a movie is rented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
This fiction that every time a product is used, the people who made said product deserve to be compensated just shows up how greedy these people are. It's never worked this way before, and if you take this position and have ever bought anything second hand you're a hypocrite. Get a clue.
It's not Phoenix's fault damnit. They gave him a red shirt at the start of the episode and we all know what that means!
He signed the non-compete. *HE* gave away his freedom. Not the State.
So if you sign a contract that sells you into slavery that should be permitted too? What about the right not to be beaten?
There are certain rights that it should not be possible to sign away. The right to earn a livelihood working in your profession should be one of them. How the hell does an AC get modded up for this on slashdot??? What exactly do you moderators do for a living? And why are you wanting to be so harsh about punishing someone for signing something unreasonable they probably believed wasn't enforceable. Shame on you all!