They don't have to pay their workers for the time they're on strike. Seems to me you could just replace them.
Are we still talking about writers here? I suspect that using an outsourcing company to bring in a bunch of H1b workers to replace Hollywood show writers is not going to go well. But it would explain what happened to the endind of the show "Lost", Anyway, there's a bunch of unsettled federal law that gets in the way of replacing striking workers - a boon for lawyers and no one else.
Go to the web site "http://Georgia.gov" type "laws" into the search box. first topic is "Learning about Georgia Law", and that has a link to the free on-line official code. How hard is that?
Or, you can goto "law.georgia.gov" and click "Legal Resources" to get to the free site.
LexisNexis is a contractor to the state of Georgia for this service, so it's not that some random company threw it up. The deal with the state is that LexisNexis does the work of creating the annotations for the state and then provides it online for free in return for being allowed to sell the printed copies. No one does that for free.
The law itself is NOT copyrighted, but the annotations are. It's stated in the Term and Conditions. This is actually a sweet deal for the people of Georgia because we get access to the annotations for free. This is a boon for people who don't want to pay a lawyer to do research or go sit in the library to read the copy there.
Utah's government web site, like almost every other state, does not provide annotations. You can buy an annotated copy of Utah law for $1800 from here: http://legalsolutions.thomsonr...
Free copies? The local public libraries in Ga that are on Ga's library network presently have 1005 copies, and the university libraries have many more.
Here's the free website. It is mandated by Ga law that the free website be provided by the publishers of the annotated code. http://www.lexisnexis.com/hott...
The statutory text itself is NOT copyrighted according to the Terms and Conditions.
Also, there is supposed to be a copy available in every county courthouse, but I can't verify that.
It's wishful thinking and pathetic to hope that we'll catch them going to porn sites. Sure there's guys like Anthony Weiner, but the fact is that almost all these guys know better than to do anything like that on the Internet, and they're not that interested in porn anyway because they're grownups and have better things to do with their time.
I still think exposure maybe will work. One way these things are done is that you go after the family, friends, and business associates of the politician.
When Congressman Bob is on the board of directors of Acme Corp, and the browsing history of everyone else on the board gets published as "Congressman Bob's associates at Acme Corp was looking at from his home computer for 3 hours last Tuesday. Also, here's the bank sites and online stock brokerage that they been accessing, and these two have treasury direct accounts. Bob is going to get a phone call to fix this, and it'll be coming from the people he really wants to please.
Do you remember a time before when medical records were considered private, and the law punished anyone sharing your record? I do. No one in government ever gave a shit about the we peons' medical records privacy. That whole privacy thing came about in the late 1960's when a candidate got the idea that during an election you could expose your opponents medical record and let the world know that Congressman Bob had gotten a prescription for valium, and thus was mentally unstable. Also, Congressman Bob had a heart bypass operation and was likely to die at any moment, and in any case certainly didn't have the stamina to serve as congressman. Then many others started doing started doing it until the plug was pulled by the newly discovered need for privacy, by Congress.
If I were an ISP, I would maintain a VIP list and cull those records from anything I sell, so you would never see anyone in higher levels of government, big-name entertainers and so on. I might even offer it as a paid service to opt-out for some extra gravy.
I was taking a non-professional course on the law a few months ago. IANAL. The other attendees were attorneys, college professors, and the like.
The attorney making the presentation that day was talking about a hospital doctor accused of making a mistake and who denied that he had done what he was accused of. The people initially involved in the investigation at this point were just the patient and the doctor, so at this point it was just a he said/she said situation.
The attorney wanted to mention a couple of cultural differences. The doctor was extremely upset that someone had basically accused him of not telling the truth. The attorney said that the doctor felt like in his culture his reputation was the most important thing about him and so he said that he could never say anything that was untrue. And furthermore, anyone contradicting him was committing a grave insult so that's why the nurses should not be asked to testify. Someone asked, "what was his culture that truthful reputation was so important", and the presenter said "Well, he's from India". I have never heard a group of lawyers and college professors laugh so hard. It was several minutes before they calmed down.
How detailed will the ISP's logging of web history be? Suppose an ISP gathers and stores everyone's web history, and that anyone with money will be able to purchase the web history from the ISP's, and then would be able to correlate the posting time of a comment with a search of the ISP's web logs to personally identify who made that post. A boon for lawyers and corporations that wants to know the actual identity of who made a negative post on Yelp. And how about your 4 million millionaires in the USA, who could probably afford the cost of the ISP logs for their state or locality, some of whom may wish to dox their competitors.
This is really going to be fun when we get to purchase the web history of the families of all our congressmen.
So true - the text of the law, the intent, and its consequences are be very different things.
If I were placed in charge of fixing this mess, the first thing I would do is split it into separate bills (change nothing to expedite the processs) with each bill being only made of things that are alike. Then repeal, replace, fix each one on its own over time.
The insurance exchange, mandates, and things directly associated with insurance goes in one bill. Medicare has it own bill. Medicaid etc The stuff about quality standards into another, pamphlet-writing programs, etc. Nurse education, Indian affairs, and so on to each its own.
If we are going to give a reference, we should at least link to an authoritative source. In this case it would be Miss Manners, to whom I defer in all such things. http://articles.chicagotribune...
Lets go ahead and cut to the chase. I'm fond of saying site your sources so let me put up before I have to shut up. Here is the exact text of the ACA, complete with subtext, and related bills. Start reading and tell me you understand all this mess.
Do you not realize that you linked to a summary of the law that I linked to in my post? The link on the page you provided that points to the full text is the exact same document I linked to from the gpo.gov.
Full disclosure: I worked for a hospital these last couple of decades, so I'm familiar with the terminology already, and I had good reason to read this years ago. And what I wasn't already familiar with, I knew how to look up. I still maintain it's not hard to understand. I've had trouble with partial differential equations, but not this stuff.
Also, change the way the slots are allocated. Right now the lottery favors large companies (think Tata) that ask for a very large number of slots. These large requests are squeezing out the small companies. So... Go through the list of all locally owned and managed American companies asking for an H1B that year and allocate one h1B to each of them Any company asking for just one would get theirs in the first round and drop off the list. Go through the list of remaining companies and again, assign one slot to each. Keep doing this until that years annual cap is reached, or the list no longer contains local American companies.
This may solve the perennial problem of small companies that actually have a need for a certain person having a specific talent being squeezed out, and it would likely make it difficult or impossible for out-sourcers such as Tata to fill the staff with all H1B workers.
I don't believe that any one really expected the repeal to get through on the first try. The ACA is 3500 pages that no one person really understands. It honestly wouldn't surprised if it took years to unravel that mess.
There are two bills in what is called Obamacare, what some people call the ACA, but is actually the PPACA = ‘‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’’ and that's a 906 pages long pdf. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/P... Try reading it. HCERA is ‘‘Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010’’. It's a 55 pages pdf. www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ152/pdf/PLAW-111publ152.pdf
It's not at all hard to understand, it's just more than anyone would memorize in entirety. It covers a lot of ground and many topics unrelated to each other such as, "nursing student loan program, "protections for frontier states", and fingerprinting long-term care workers. The people who have an interest in those would find it easy to understand their part of it, but have no reason to investigate the other.
I suppose where the numerous page numbers come from is the regulations associated with the PPACA and HCERA. These regulations are written to address specific situations and are often requested by healthcare vendors and insurance companies to address clarification or details of implementation. Those may be another 10,000 or so pages. That sound like a lot, but it isn't unusual for complex areas of regulation. Many were pre-existing situations for Medicare, Medicaid and other entities associated with healthcare. Most will remain for whatever the next bill is passed unless they also end Medicare and Medicaid.
It does mention it in the paper if you read hard enough, especially the summary.
It looks to me that the anode and cathode is different materials. Yes, Lithium is being plated at each of the anode or cathode during each charge/discharge cycles, but the materials at the cathode and anode are different.are different. Look at figure 4.
The membranes were heated to T 4 130 1C to outgas the ethanol of the applied electrolyte slurry and to reform the solid glass electrolyte without grain boundaries before being pressed against an anode of lithium or sodium foil contacting a stainless-steel cell container. The thickness of the electrolyte membrane was 0.06 mm. The cathode consisted of a redox center (an S8 or ferrocene molecule or an MnO2 particle) embedded in a mix of electrolyte and carbon contacting a copper current collector; the redox center could be removed.
I read the paper. The actual paper describes in some detail how the battery is constructed and how it works. The actual paper makes no extraordinary claims. It's just a better way of making a battery.
He who innovates/invents first has little effect on 5 years later. If that long.
Look at Yahoo. The first, and for some time the best internet search engine. Now dust.
Economists, and the like, keep using 20th century (some even 19th century) models. Intellectuals cling to the past as badly as others. And the fools who like what they say pay them. Sadly the factory workers have no such benefactors.
Yahoo first? I would have said Altavisa off the top of my head. Too lazy to check further, though.
While malaria is the big one when it comes to mosquito transmitted diseases, we also have many other horrible diseases carried by mosquitoes. Furtermore, as long as mosquitos exist, there will continue to be new mosquito vector blood-borne diseases evolving. I say exterminate the brutes, but as others have pointed out, we have to be absolutely 100% sure that gene drive doesn't spread to other members of the Culicidae family, or worse, climb up to the Diptera order. 100% sure.
A non-eradicate mosquito solution to malaria will leave us with these, many of which have no treatment and no vaccine. Chikungunya Dengue Yellow Fever Eastern Equine Encephalitis St. Louis Encephalitis LaCrosse Encephalitis Western Equine Encephalitis West Nile Virus Zika Virus filariasis Dog Heartworm ( another filarial worm ) botfly larvae Ross River fever and similar viral induced polyarthritis
Here's an article from Nature that goes into some light detail on the role of mosquitoes in the ecosystem and the possible consequences of their eradication.
Short story: eradicating just the Aedes Aegypti and suchlike human bloodsuckers would be a good thing with little to no consequence. Killing all the mosquitoes would probably have little noticeable effect except in the Artic tundra where they exist is vast numbers. No one knows what effect killing off all the Aedes in the Artic would have - maybe excellent news, maybe bad up there.
Having islands of DST and non-DST time can be a pain in the neck for sysadmins.
What is this 1999? Since Y2K, Machines should all be set to UTC, and the app should know how to deal with local conversion.
Ohhh, please no, do not let the apps do that. The bad stuff that happened during the 2007 DST change were mostly apps that did their own conversion.
Never mind. It just occurred to me that you did not mean let the apps maintain the timezone/DST etc tables, but rather use the OS tables to inform the apps to do the local time conversions, like Outlook does for mails sent/received in different timezones, (when it's working correctly).
We've known for a long time, at least in my recollection since the '70s, that daylight savings time didn't do much other than cause problems. Since our Nation really isn't based on agricultural production anymore maybe it's time we just give it up. I'm sure the farmers, chickens and local schools can get it sorted out okay.
DST should not be a problem for anyone anymore. If you want to know the time, just google for "correct time".
You need to read more about time reckoning, then. There is no need to have gaps or duplicate time points in your data. Hint: timezones and DST are only an illusion.
DST time change is a pain in the neck to hospitals. It's a pain in the neck to surgeons and anesthesiologists who have the time jump backwards an hour in the middle of an operation, and the timestamp is a critical part of the data logging they do. Admittedly it's only twice a year, but it's still a pointless nuisance. And yes, local time is important whenever you're dealing with the public.
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They don't have to pay their workers for the time they're on strike. Seems to me you could just replace them.
Are we still talking about writers here?
I suspect that using an outsourcing company to bring in a bunch of H1b workers to replace Hollywood show writers is not going to go well. But it would explain what happened to the endind of the show "Lost",
Anyway, there's a bunch of unsettled federal law that gets in the way of replacing striking workers - a boon for lawyers and no one else.
Go to the web site "http://Georgia.gov"
type "laws" into the search box.
first topic is "Learning about Georgia Law", and that has a link to the free on-line official code.
How hard is that?
Or, you can goto "law.georgia.gov" and click "Legal Resources" to get to the free site.
LexisNexis is a contractor to the state of Georgia for this service, so it's not that some random company threw it up.
The deal with the state is that LexisNexis does the work of creating the annotations for the state and then provides it online for free in return for being allowed to sell the printed copies. No one does that for free.
The law itself is NOT copyrighted, but the annotations are. It's stated in the Term and Conditions.
This is actually a sweet deal for the people of Georgia because we get access to the annotations for free. This is a boon for people who don't want to pay a lawyer to do research or go sit in the library to read the copy there.
As for the link you gave, http://www.le.state.ut.us/Docu... it has an invalid certificate.
If you change it to http://le.utah.gov/Documents/c... , it's OK.
Utah's government web site, like almost every other state, does not provide annotations. You can buy an annotated copy of Utah law for $1800 from here:
http://legalsolutions.thomsonr...
In Georgia, we get ours online for free.
In the state of Georgia, it's a criminal offense to be poor. Don't believe me? Look it up... Don't have $1200? Off to jail with you!
That's not true. Being poor is not a criminal offense in Georgia.
Here's the official Georgia law, all of it:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/hott...
Free copies? The local public libraries in Ga that are on Ga's library network presently have 1005 copies, and the university libraries have many more.
Here's the free website. It is mandated by Ga law that the free website be provided by the publishers of the annotated code. http://www.lexisnexis.com/hott...
The statutory text itself is NOT copyrighted according to the Terms and Conditions.
Also, there is supposed to be a copy available in every county courthouse, but I can't verify that.
It's wishful thinking and pathetic to hope that we'll catch them going to porn sites. Sure there's guys like Anthony Weiner, but the fact is that almost all these guys know better than to do anything like that on the Internet, and they're not that interested in porn anyway because they're grownups and have better things to do with their time.
I still think exposure maybe will work.
One way these things are done is that you go after the family, friends, and business associates of the politician.
When Congressman Bob is on the board of directors of Acme Corp, and the browsing history of everyone else on the board gets published as "Congressman Bob's associates at Acme Corp was looking at from his home computer for 3 hours last Tuesday. Also, here's the bank sites and online stock brokerage that they been accessing, and these two have treasury direct accounts.
Bob is going to get a phone call to fix this, and it'll be coming from the people he really wants to please.
Do you remember a time before when medical records were considered private, and the law punished anyone sharing your record?
I do. No one in government ever gave a shit about the we peons' medical records privacy.
That whole privacy thing came about in the late 1960's when a candidate got the idea that during an election you could expose your opponents medical record and let the world know that Congressman Bob had gotten a prescription for valium, and thus was mentally unstable. Also, Congressman Bob had a heart bypass operation and was likely to die at any moment, and in any case certainly didn't have the stamina to serve as congressman. Then many others started doing started doing it until the plug was pulled by the newly discovered need for privacy, by Congress.
If I were an ISP, I would maintain a VIP list and cull those records from anything I sell, so you would never see anyone in higher levels of government, big-name entertainers and so on. I might even offer it as a paid service to opt-out for some extra gravy.
I was taking a non-professional course on the law a few months ago. IANAL. The other attendees were attorneys, college professors, and the like.
The attorney making the presentation that day was talking about a hospital doctor accused of making a mistake and who denied that he had done what he was accused of. The people initially involved in the investigation at this point were just the patient and the doctor, so at this point it was just a he said/she said situation.
The attorney wanted to mention a couple of cultural differences. The doctor was extremely upset that someone had basically accused him of not telling the truth. The attorney said that the doctor felt like in his culture his reputation was the most important thing about him and so he said that he could never say anything that was untrue. And furthermore, anyone contradicting him was committing a grave insult so that's why the nurses should not be asked to testify. Someone asked, "what was his culture that truthful reputation was so important", and the presenter said "Well, he's from India".
I have never heard a group of lawyers and college professors laugh so hard. It was several minutes before they calmed down.
How detailed will the ISP's logging of web history be?
Suppose an ISP gathers and stores everyone's web history, and that anyone with money will be able to purchase the web history from the ISP's, and then would be able to correlate the posting time of a comment with a search of the ISP's web logs to personally identify who made that post.
A boon for lawyers and corporations that wants to know the actual identity of who made a negative post on Yelp.
And how about your 4 million millionaires in the USA, who could probably afford the cost of the ISP logs for their state or locality, some of whom may wish to dox their competitors.
This is really going to be fun when we get to purchase the web history of the families of all our congressmen.
So true - the text of the law, the intent, and its consequences are be very different things.
If I were placed in charge of fixing this mess, the first thing I would do is split it into separate bills (change nothing to expedite the processs) with each bill being only made of things that are alike. Then repeal, replace, fix each one on its own over time.
The insurance exchange, mandates, and things directly associated with insurance goes in one bill.
Medicare has it own bill.
Medicaid etc
The stuff about quality standards into another, pamphlet-writing programs, etc.
Nurse education, Indian affairs, and so on to each its own.
I think /. url mangled my link.
http://www.albion.com/netiquet...
Try that link.
If we are going to give a reference, we should at least link to an authoritative source. In this case it would be Miss Manners, to whom I defer in all such things.
http://articles.chicagotribune...
Hi Barbara!
I think 7-digit UIDs should not speak when the 4-digit UIDs are talking to each other. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. (joking)
Lets go ahead and cut to the chase. I'm fond of saying site your sources so let me put up before I have to shut up. Here is the exact text of the ACA, complete with subtext, and related bills. Start reading and tell me you understand all this mess.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3590/
Do you not realize that you linked to a summary of the law that I linked to in my post?
The link on the page you provided that points to the full text is the exact same document I linked to from the gpo.gov.
Full disclosure: I worked for a hospital these last couple of decades, so I'm familiar with the terminology already, and I had good reason to read this years ago.
And what I wasn't already familiar with, I knew how to look up.
I still maintain it's not hard to understand. I've had trouble with partial differential equations, but not this stuff.
Also, change the way the slots are allocated. Right now the lottery favors large companies (think Tata) that ask for a very large number of slots. These large requests are squeezing out the small companies. ...
So
Go through the list of all locally owned and managed American companies asking for an H1B that year and allocate one h1B to each of them
Any company asking for just one would get theirs in the first round and drop off the list.
Go through the list of remaining companies and again, assign one slot to each.
Keep doing this until that years annual cap is reached, or the list no longer contains local American companies.
This may solve the perennial problem of small companies that actually have a need for a certain person having a specific talent being squeezed out, and it would likely make it difficult or impossible for out-sourcers such as Tata to fill the staff with all H1B workers.
I don't believe that any one really expected the repeal to get through on the first try. The ACA is 3500 pages that no one person really understands. It honestly wouldn't surprised if it took years to unravel that mess.
There are two bills in what is called Obamacare, what some people call the ACA, but is actually the
PPACA = ‘‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’’ and that's a 906 pages long pdf.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/P...
Try reading it.
HCERA is ‘‘Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010’’. It's a 55 pages pdf.
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ152/pdf/PLAW-111publ152.pdf
It's not at all hard to understand, it's just more than anyone would memorize in entirety.
It covers a lot of ground and many topics unrelated to each other such as, "nursing student loan program, "protections for frontier states", and fingerprinting long-term care workers. The people who have an interest in those would find it easy to understand their part of it, but have no reason to investigate the other.
I suppose where the numerous page numbers come from is the regulations associated with the PPACA and HCERA. These regulations are written to address specific situations and are often requested by healthcare vendors and insurance companies to address clarification or details of implementation. Those may be another 10,000 or so pages. That sound like a lot, but it isn't unusual for complex areas of regulation. Many were pre-existing situations for Medicare, Medicaid and other entities associated with healthcare. Most will remain for whatever the next bill is passed unless they also end Medicare and Medicaid.
It does mention it in the paper if you read hard enough, especially the summary.
It looks to me that the anode and cathode is different materials. Yes, Lithium is being plated at each of the anode or cathode during each charge/discharge cycles, but the materials at the cathode and anode are different.are different. Look at figure 4.
The membranes were heated to T 4 130 1C to outgas the ethanol of the applied electrolyte slurry and to reform the solid glass electrolyte without grain boundaries before being pressed against an anode of lithium or sodium foil contacting a stainless-steel cell container. The thickness of the electrolyte membrane was 0.06 mm. The cathode consisted of a redox center (an S8 or ferrocene molecule or an MnO2 particle) embedded in a mix of electrolyte and carbon contacting a copper current collector; the redox center could be removed.
I read the paper.
The actual paper describes in some detail how the battery is constructed and how it works.
The actual paper makes no extraordinary claims. It's just a better way of making a battery.
Slashdot rule# 2 - if you can't complain about the topic, complain about the measurement units.
Why on earth would you use a hyphen in that sentence?
Interesting, that about Yahoo.
In any case, I have to agree with chromaexcursion's assertion "He who innovates/invents first has little effect on 5 years later. If that long."
He who innovates/invents first has little effect on 5 years later. If that long.
Look at Yahoo. The first, and for some time the best internet search engine. Now dust.
Economists, and the like, keep using 20th century (some even 19th century) models. Intellectuals cling to the past as badly as others. And the fools who like what they say pay them. Sadly the factory workers have no such benefactors.
Yahoo first? I would have said Altavisa off the top of my head. Too lazy to check further, though.
If American robots had their own economy it'd be bigger than Switzerland
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
While malaria is the big one when it comes to mosquito transmitted diseases, we also have many other horrible diseases carried by mosquitoes.
Furtermore, as long as mosquitos exist, there will continue to be new mosquito vector blood-borne diseases evolving.
I say exterminate the brutes, but as others have pointed out, we have to be absolutely 100% sure that gene drive doesn't spread to other members of the Culicidae family, or worse, climb up to the Diptera order.
100% sure.
A non-eradicate mosquito solution to malaria will leave us with these, many of which have no treatment and no vaccine.
Chikungunya
Dengue
Yellow Fever
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
St. Louis Encephalitis
LaCrosse Encephalitis
Western Equine Encephalitis
West Nile Virus
Zika Virus
filariasis
Dog Heartworm ( another filarial worm )
botfly larvae
Ross River fever and similar viral induced polyarthritis
Here's an article from Nature that goes into some light detail on the role of mosquitoes in the ecosystem and the possible consequences of their eradication.
http://www.nature.com/news/201...
Short story: eradicating just the Aedes Aegypti and suchlike human bloodsuckers would be a good thing with little to no consequence.
Killing all the mosquitoes would probably have little noticeable effect except in the Artic tundra where they exist is vast numbers. No one knows what effect killing off all the Aedes in the Artic would have - maybe excellent news, maybe bad up there.
Having islands of DST and non-DST time can be a pain in the neck for sysadmins.
What is this 1999? Since Y2K, Machines should all be set to UTC, and the app should know how to deal with local conversion.
Ohhh, please no, do not let the apps do that. The bad stuff that happened during the 2007 DST change were mostly apps that did their own conversion.
Never mind.
It just occurred to me that you did not mean let the apps maintain the timezone/DST etc tables, but rather use the OS tables to inform the apps to do the local time conversions, like Outlook does for mails sent/received in different timezones, (when it's working correctly).
Having islands of DST and non-DST time can be a pain in the neck for sysadmins.
What is this 1999? Since Y2K, Machines should all be set to UTC, and the app should know how to deal with local conversion.
/quote
Ohhh, please no, do not let the apps do that. The bad stuff that happened during the 2007 DST change were mostly apps that did their own conversion.
We've known for a long time, at least in my recollection since the '70s, that daylight savings time didn't do much other than cause problems. Since our Nation really isn't based on agricultural production anymore maybe it's time we just give it up. I'm sure the farmers, chickens and local schools can get it sorted out okay.
DST should not be a problem for anyone anymore.
If you want to know the time, just google for "correct time".
You need to read more about time reckoning, then. There is no need to have gaps or duplicate time points in your data. Hint: timezones and DST are only an illusion.
DST time change is a pain in the neck to hospitals.
It's a pain in the neck to surgeons and anesthesiologists who have the time jump backwards an hour in the middle of an operation, and the timestamp is a critical part of the data logging they do. Admittedly it's only twice a year, but it's still a pointless nuisance.
And yes, local time is important whenever you're dealing with the public.