Now, what makes me think that you each went home alone after that party?
Those Mars rover drivers like to play tricks on each other, trying to sneak in some instructions in the other guys' files, to make the rover crash into rocks or dive over an outcrop. It's gotten so bad that they hold peer reviews and trial runs before the data is sent to the robots.
Ah, but it's a tough job, too. On one hand you are happy to have work, on the other, you hate those little rovers and wish they'd give up and die already. What's the next career step for a bot driver, if bots aren't going to the moon?
By the way, you don't want to get behind these guys in traffic. They were hired because they actually drive like that...
Geez, JUST when we've eliminated almost every monkey habitat in the world, such that they face extinction across the board, along comes a cloning process.
I guess that's great for the labs that need monkeys--they can clone their favorite, and let the rest fade away.
Maybe, just maybe, some genius can clone native habitat so that our little cousins can thrive once again. Probably best if this process is robotic, cuz at our current pace, we will face our own extinction all too soon.
So, you did not sign the document as an intern. You probably broke the lawyer/HR interns' hearts.
How about the rest of your story? Did you hire on with that company? Join another? Did you start your own company? What happened to your intern cohort?
These documents are next to meaningless and that is why you just don't read stories about companies successfully suing on this basis. Once you are no longer taking pay from a company, their only recourse is the civil courts, and anything goes in that venue.
First, do you really expect to invent something valuable? You work in IT. Your work is derivative.
Second, if you have a great idea at your next employer, how will your previous employer discover that the idea came from you? How will they even discover that the idea was implemented, and when it was done? You work in IT, not product development.
Third, who at your company monitors what former IT employees do? If your lip is zipped, they won't have a clue. However, if you are one of those, uh, bloggers, and you like to brag about every damned thing that goes on between your ears, well, nah. No worries. Only your mother cares what you write in your blog and she doesn't give a damn anymore, either.
You really aren't signing away anything of value. See if you can get some recompense for it, though. Maybe a leftover mug or t-shirt from the latest tradeshow.
I think the Russians sneaked off a launch and lit up their own ion engine and have crashed a microwave-sized block of titanium into this comet. They were able to sneak off the launch by hiding the vessel in a fake third stage in the supply shot for the space station. With all the clutter up there, no one noticed the fake third stage slowly drift away a couple years ago.
Yes, indeed. It was the Russians. Or the Chinese. Or India.
Maybe Japan.
Makes me ask--why wasn't it the USA? Because we are focused on sending people to the moon, which is a huge waste of effort and detracts from our development of robots and nanotech and the control of robots.
Your fine is now $1,000,000, to one significant figure, so we'll accept any payment between $500,000 and $1,499,999.99. Is that better?
A judgement is not a fine. Judgements are harder to collect. Since Jammie is generally without means to pay $220,000 outright (low pay and no house), then the RIAA will have to resort to such approaches as garnishing her wages, and convincing a judge to grant them all money sent to her defense fund.
The RIAA will become like Goldman is to Simpson, and there are no gold rolodexes to take. Ms. Thomas is more photogenic and sympathetic, so the RIAA has a lot to lose in the court of popular opinion.
I understand Jammie's strategy here--she has little to lose and no deep pockets. She is prideful and broke.
The woman lost a civil trial. She has a judgement against her.
The winner gets to work through the system to try to collect the judgement. The RIAA might be like Goldman is to Simpson, looking for Rolexes where none exist. And they might have to be like that for decades. And this woman looks like a saint being persecuted by a troubled industry.
Since we did away with debtor's prisons, people earning $36,000/year get to work out really good payment terms--maybe she pays like $1000/year for 220 years. Or the RIAA gets ask the court to lien her house, if she has one. Maybe they will garnish her wages, and how will that look?
I don't believe anyone should send a penny to pay this judgement. It would be wiser to set up a scholarship fund to put her kids through school, so that the RIAA can't get a nickel of satisfaction. You financial angels could buy a house, stock it with gear and furniture, and lease it to her for 99 years.
The RIAA will have this PR burden for a very long time. And that could prove to be a very tough bone to chew!
(I bet that the RIAA settles with Ms. Thomas privately, and uses their victory to put fear in other persons who have much deeper pockets.)
Errr, one of the tenets of a three-part Christian God is that one part is always in the room with everyone. Everyone Christian, that is.
And I suppose this research is targeted only at a Christian God, for the Islamic Allah has his hands full these days.
So, before you can say there is no presence in that room, you must prove that there is no Godly presence in the room, and that's proving a negative, which becomes a matter of faith, and that's why the Christians have the secularists over a barrel.
So, this new helmet helps you feel the Holy Spirit, eh? That oughta sell very well in these troubled times!
So, if these cables can meet their claims, that makes them paranormal!
This is really good news for those trying to win that other Amazing million-dollar check that Randi carries around. Prove the cables can do it and you win both checks because you proved that paranormal exists!
Now, take that $2 million and invest it in a booster system that will take a small Lego robot from a high-altitude balloon all the way to the moon. When that little bot sends back video from the lunar surface, knock on Google's door and claim the $50 million prize they offered.
I dunno about youse guys, but I'm heading out right now to buy a pair of those audio cables. And a Lego Mindstorms kit...
Consider that Google Video dropped its $1.99/view video service, and offered $2 credit at the Google checkout, and the industry and users unleashed scathing commentary, forcing Google to restore the PPV service for 6 months, and fully refund the cash.
Apple does it 100 times greater and the fanboys just accepted it. Until now, rallying around Woz's battle cry, which is, ironically, "I wish Apple were more like Google!"
You realize that once you lift a robot and this new laser rocket into the stratosphere on a really big balloon (or a solar plane), you could reach the moon on a budget.
And then you could phone up Google for $50 million bucks.
Did he even take off? Without a PR Newswire piece?
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Fossett doesn't do anything without a fair bit of self-promotion. Call out the CSI team!
First, just who told the FAA that Fossett flew that plane out? I think he was done-in on the ground at the Hilton ranch, and is probably pushing up daisies near the compost heap. They dismantled his plane and hid it in an outbuilding far, far from the ranch.
Or maybe he died just the way a friend of mine died in a small plane so many years ago in his youth. Pilot didn't pay attention to the altimeter and the ground rose up to meet him as they neared the mountains.
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Now, what makes me think that you each went home alone after that party?
Those Mars rover drivers like to play tricks on each other, trying to sneak in some instructions in the other guys' files, to make the rover crash into rocks or dive over an outcrop. It's gotten so bad that they hold peer reviews and trial runs before the data is sent to the robots.
Ah, but it's a tough job, too. On one hand you are happy to have work, on the other, you hate those little rovers and wish they'd give up and die already. What's the next career step for a bot driver, if bots aren't going to the moon?
By the way, you don't want to get behind these guys in traffic. They were hired because they actually drive like that...
They are indeed one step closer to catching the Lucky Charms.
I would imagine that all the encrypted messages from WWII that were worth decrypting have already been decrypted.
What's left? Hilter's laundry list?
Geez, JUST when we've eliminated almost every monkey habitat in the world, such that they face extinction across the board, along comes a cloning process.
I guess that's great for the labs that need monkeys--they can clone their favorite, and let the rest fade away.
Maybe, just maybe, some genius can clone native habitat so that our little cousins can thrive once again. Probably best if this process is robotic, cuz at our current pace, we will face our own extinction all too soon.
So Netflix has money to spend on improving movie recommendations.
I'm a subscriber--why not give me a little of that cash?
I mean, if my opinion of a movie is this valuable, I expect to be compensated for participating in the system.
And that's why I never rate anything on the internet--they haven't made it worth my time.
Actually, what I'd prefer is if Netflix would give me a list of movies recommended by a group of professional reviewers I tend to agree with.
And at $4.99/month, that list doesn't have to be more than 2 selections!
Men serving two masters always say this, and we know it's rubbish.
The truth will be known as soon as conflicting interests have to be resolved.
I would rather put a Stirling-cooled robot rover on Venus than pairs of human feet in the dust of the Moon.
Robotic exploration of our solar system is critically important and will achieve much more than a pair of glass-encased Lunar baby blues.
So, you did not sign the document as an intern. You probably broke the lawyer/HR interns' hearts.
How about the rest of your story? Did you hire on with that company? Join another? Did you start your own company? What happened to your intern cohort?
These documents are next to meaningless and that is why you just don't read stories about companies successfully suing on this basis. Once you are no longer taking pay from a company, their only recourse is the civil courts, and anything goes in that venue.
You turned down a job because of a stupid CYA document?
OK, I'll bite. Just what did you invent in your first six months at the company you started with? Anything that would merit your paranoia?
First, do you really expect to invent something valuable? You work in IT. Your work is derivative.
Second, if you have a great idea at your next employer, how will your previous employer discover that the idea came from you? How will they even discover that the idea was implemented, and when it was done? You work in IT, not product development.
Third, who at your company monitors what former IT employees do? If your lip is zipped, they won't have a clue. However, if you are one of those, uh, bloggers, and you like to brag about every damned thing that goes on between your ears, well, nah. No worries. Only your mother cares what you write in your blog and she doesn't give a damn anymore, either.
You really aren't signing away anything of value. See if you can get some recompense for it, though. Maybe a leftover mug or t-shirt from the latest tradeshow.
Doctor Frankenstein said that!? Or his nameless monster?
The good doctor seemed somewhat more erudite than his murderous creation.
Quick, everyone! Run for the hills before the internet crashes!!
Are you safe in your rural shelter?
Problem solved...
I think the Russians sneaked off a launch and lit up their own ion engine and have crashed a microwave-sized block of titanium into this comet. They were able to sneak off the launch by hiding the vessel in a fake third stage in the supply shot for the space station. With all the clutter up there, no one noticed the fake third stage slowly drift away a couple years ago.
Yes, indeed. It was the Russians. Or the Chinese. Or India.
Maybe Japan.
Makes me ask--why wasn't it the USA? Because we are focused on sending people to the moon, which is a huge waste of effort and detracts from our development of robots and nanotech and the control of robots.
Yeah, but how will they do stuff to Kari that won't cause permanent damage to her DNA?
16,400 files?! Why, that's more files than a person could use in a LIFETIME!
A judgement is not a fine. Judgements are harder to collect. Since Jammie is generally without means to pay $220,000 outright (low pay and no house), then the RIAA will have to resort to such approaches as garnishing her wages, and convincing a judge to grant them all money sent to her defense fund.
The RIAA will become like Goldman is to Simpson, and there are no gold rolodexes to take. Ms. Thomas is more photogenic and sympathetic, so the RIAA has a lot to lose in the court of popular opinion.
I understand Jammie's strategy here--she has little to lose and no deep pockets. She is prideful and broke.
The woman lost a civil trial. She has a judgement against her.
The winner gets to work through the system to try to collect the judgement. The RIAA might be like Goldman is to Simpson, looking for Rolexes where none exist. And they might have to be like that for decades. And this woman looks like a saint being persecuted by a troubled industry.
Since we did away with debtor's prisons, people earning $36,000/year get to work out really good payment terms--maybe she pays like $1000/year for 220 years. Or the RIAA gets ask the court to lien her house, if she has one. Maybe they will garnish her wages, and how will that look?
I don't believe anyone should send a penny to pay this judgement. It would be wiser to set up a scholarship fund to put her kids through school, so that the RIAA can't get a nickel of satisfaction. You financial angels could buy a house, stock it with gear and furniture, and lease it to her for 99 years.
The RIAA will have this PR burden for a very long time. And that could prove to be a very tough bone to chew!
(I bet that the RIAA settles with Ms. Thomas privately, and uses their victory to put fear in other persons who have much deeper pockets.)
Why? Nobody else does...
Errr, one of the tenets of a three-part Christian God is that one part is always in the room with everyone. Everyone Christian, that is.
And I suppose this research is targeted only at a Christian God, for the Islamic Allah has his hands full these days.
So, before you can say there is no presence in that room, you must prove that there is no Godly presence in the room, and that's proving a negative, which becomes a matter of faith, and that's why the Christians have the secularists over a barrel.
So, this new helmet helps you feel the Holy Spirit, eh? That oughta sell very well in these troubled times!
So, if these cables can meet their claims, that makes them paranormal!
This is really good news for those trying to win that other Amazing million-dollar check that Randi carries around. Prove the cables can do it and you win both checks because you proved that paranormal exists!
Now, take that $2 million and invest it in a booster system that will take a small Lego robot from a high-altitude balloon all the way to the moon. When that little bot sends back video from the lunar surface, knock on Google's door and claim the $50 million prize they offered.
I dunno about youse guys, but I'm heading out right now to buy a pair of those audio cables. And a Lego Mindstorms kit...
I think this outrage is long overdue!
Consider that Google Video dropped its $1.99/view video service, and offered $2 credit at the Google checkout, and the industry and users unleashed scathing commentary, forcing Google to restore the PPV service for 6 months, and fully refund the cash.
Apple does it 100 times greater and the fanboys just accepted it. Until now, rallying around Woz's battle cry, which is, ironically, "I wish Apple were more like Google!"
"Sanchez! If you don't move your hut off that llama path by sunset, I'll bring a shitstorm down upon you and your family!"
"Okay, Chief. But can I move it tomorrow?"
You realize that once you lift a robot and this new laser rocket into the stratosphere on a really big balloon (or a solar plane), you could reach the moon on a budget.
And then you could phone up Google for $50 million bucks.
And I bet that prize is collected within 7 years.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
Fossett doesn't do anything without a fair bit of self-promotion. Call out the CSI team!
First, just who told the FAA that Fossett flew that plane out? I think he was done-in on the ground at the Hilton ranch, and is probably pushing up daisies near the compost heap. They dismantled his plane and hid it in an outbuilding far, far from the ranch.
Or maybe he died just the way a friend of mine died in a small plane so many years ago in his youth. Pilot didn't pay attention to the altimeter and the ground rose up to meet him as they neared the mountains.