Plus all those turd reports are invested in municiapls bonds so you're set!
Anyway, yeah. Tried to play it smart, no debt, ok job, used car, couple months of salary saved up just in case. 15% going into the 403(b) pre-tax. I'm getting stocks at a bargain right now. I've got 25 years min before retirment. As long as my paycheck keeps clearing, a low stock market is a good thing for me.
So how does that analogy play out with an X-Box? I can mod it and play around with it as long I don't use it to play any officially liscended X-Box games? Or use it to log onto an official X-Box network?
Probably because they want the standard to be proprietary. It would give them far more control for one, and they could make money off licensing the technology to third party vendors. Sony though has a pretty long history of going their own way on things like this: Beta, midi-disc, etc...
No you dumb-ass, not cut and dry. By your definition every single non-profit in the country is a government agency. Is a church a government funded entity? No.
Got anymore sweeping ingnorant statements with faulty logic?
Our closed loop from the local bell costs $243 a month on a three year contract. Our full (1.5 up/down) costs $750 a month, again on a three year contract signed a little over a year ago. We also had to buy a new router (somewhere around $1800, I can't remember the exact price).
If I shopped for one today, the closed loop price would be the same, but I could get the ISP charge down to about $500 on a three year contract.
If you want to cut out the closed loop charge, see if there's a company like Savvis in your neiborhood. They negotiate for large blocks of closed loop service and run your T-1 through their proprietary switch.
This is a chance for LSU to craft legal definitions for what is and what is not allowed in regards to doamin names. As it stands now, the only clear rules are for domain names that are trademarked or the official name of a company. Everything else is based on how much money you have.
If you want to get technical about it, the terms salaried, and exempt are separate in the eyes of US federal law. Salaried employees are almost always exempt, however, salaried only means you are paid a set amount per work week. If you exceed 40 hours, you are due overtime at least 1.5 times your hourly rate (based on at least weekly pay/40 hours a week or better). It has nothing to with anything other how you can be docked for disciplinary action and how you can take time off. See my pervious post for that.
Exempt employees are exempt from the rules of overtime and some other obscure labor laws. There are four categories for employee's who are exempt from overtime, but again, they only refer to responsibility and a mostly outdated minimum wage requirement. An interesting exception is employee's who are exempt because they work in an information technology job. If I remember correctly, you have to make 28k a year to qualify for that, or the company owes you overtime.
Anyway, none of these laws restricts the company in anyway concerning changes in pay for employee's. Arbitrary or unexpected changes in pay are unethical and extreme, but there's nothing illegal about them. Of course if you're under contract or in a union, the rules are much different.
Umm... that's not quite true. You are not allowed to dock exempt employee's pay in less than full day increments, nor can you allow exempt employee's to take vacation or sick time in less than full day increments. That is simply a product of not tracking an exempt employee's hours/overtime. There's no other regulation though that says you are legally bound to pay an exempt employee what you did last week.
It would be a mistake, however, to conclude from these pronouncements that the Court, having decided in the late 1960s and the 1970s that children are "persons," determined that children should have the same set of constitutional rights that we ascribe to adults. If the Court did see children as persons, then it surely saw them as peculiar sorts of persons for purposes of constitutional analysis. For example, during the 1970s the Court also decided that juveniles did not have three of the procedural rights that adults take for granted: the right to a trial by jury, the right to bail prior to adjudication, and the right to be protected from corporal punishment.
The usual justification for this confusing set of adjudications was that children must be "safeguarded from abuses," and that the state may continue to create laws that will help parents and teachers discharge their joint responsibility for their children's well-being. Moreover, the Court said, since children do not have the "full capacity for individual choice," they may be deprived of certain adult rights (e.g., to marry, to vote), and their activities can be regulated if it can be shown that this will "safeguard the family unit and parental authority." In sum, the catch-phrase of the 1970s Court that "children are persons" is precisely that: a phrase that lacks the precision of a normative principle.
Children under the age of 18 do not have full protection of rights under the constitution in the first place. If someone is going to argue that their violent or explicit videogame should be sold to minors without any restrictions, I don't think that's gonna fly if it goes to the supreme court level.
So let me get this straight, the enforcement agency would be the FTC? They're under staffed and over lobbied as it is. I predict preferential treatment and spotty enforcement. Tha't's assuming that there would be any enforcement at all of course.
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) said it continues to support industry self-regulation on privacy.
Gotta agree. If the government has less access to my information, and finds it harder to interact with me becuase I refuse to get a Passport account, then what's the problem? I win both ways.
Some software companies learn this lesson, and then forget it. Case in point Firaxis, creators of Civilization III. Civ II had tremendous flexibility to create new scenarios. It was and is a great game, and also has limitless replay value due to mods and scenarios created every week.
Civ III on the other hand is crippled by shortsighted design. Sure it has a cool built in front end to modify the game rules. But the map creation utility is poor to point of un-usability. Add to that the inability to place starting cities and armies, and the Civ III scenario community basically can't exist.
They learned the lessons, and then threw it out the window for unknown reasons.
Yes, gamefaqs is a goldmine of information for and about video games. Keep in mind though, just because there's little to no industry bias there, doesn't mean there aren't other kinds.
And as you previously pointed out, the correct address is www.gamefaqs.com
If then EFF is a registered non-profit (like a 501 (c) (3), the company and the employee could reduce their tax liability with even an informal program of matching. One of the advantages to a payroll deduction of course would be a pre-tax decution rather than claiming it. 1040's are a bitch and only help those who have a morgatge.
You realize that anyone with half a' brain would surmise the outcome of the show from the your thread title alone? I know that only counts for a minority of slashdot users, but still...
1) These files must not be saved in "Microsoft Word Format", or they will be ruined. They MUST be saved in "Text Only" format.
2) Please do not insert extra blank lines, nor remove existing blank lines, as this will cause the program to malfunction.
3) But it is normally okay to turn a long line into two shorter lines; for instance:
This is a very long sentence; it probably won't fit on one line in German.
is equivalent to:
This is a very long sentence; It probably
won't fit on one line in German.
I was going to post a lot more but the "lameness" filter interfered. Basically I have to type a bunch of lame crap here to get past the lameness filter. How screwy is that? I also have to butcher the origonal code so slashcode feels it is less lame.
This is rediculous! I've butchered the code to remove all the "junk" characters and I still hit the filter! What the hell? Nice introduction to the lameness filter and slashcode BTW.
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Plus all those turd reports are invested in municiapls bonds so you're set!
Anyway, yeah. Tried to play it smart, no debt, ok job, used car, couple months of salary saved up just in case. 15% going into the 403(b) pre-tax. I'm getting stocks at a bargain right now. I've got 25 years min before retirment. As long as my paycheck keeps clearing, a low stock market is a good thing for me.
So how does that analogy play out with an X-Box? I can mod it and play around with it as long I don't use it to play any officially liscended X-Box games? Or use it to log onto an official X-Box network?
Heh, Dumb and Dumber. I actually paid money to see that in the theatre.
So far (page 5) it appears to be a text heavy advertisment for monster cable.
Probably because they want the standard to be proprietary. It would give them far more control for one, and they could make money off licensing the technology to third party vendors. Sony though has a pretty long history of going their own way on things like this: Beta, midi-disc, etc...
"Microsoft Linux"
You realize that this is inevitable though?
No you dumb-ass, not cut and dry. By your definition every single non-profit in the country is a government agency. Is a church a government funded entity? No.
Got anymore sweeping ingnorant statements with faulty logic?
Federal grants account for less than 2% of NPR's annual budget so what the hell are yout talking about?
Our closed loop from the local bell costs $243 a month on a three year contract. Our full (1.5 up/down) costs $750 a month, again on a three year contract signed a little over a year ago. We also had to buy a new router (somewhere around $1800, I can't remember the exact price).
If I shopped for one today, the closed loop price would be the same, but I could get the ISP charge down to about $500 on a three year contract.
If you want to cut out the closed loop charge, see if there's a company like Savvis in your neiborhood. They negotiate for large blocks of closed loop service and run your T-1 through their proprietary switch.
I have not heard of a metered T-1 before. I've heard of fractional bandwidth caps, but not metered.
This is a chance for LSU to craft legal definitions for what is and what is not allowed in regards to doamin names. As it stands now, the only clear rules are for domain names that are trademarked or the official name of a company. Everything else is based on how much money you have.
If you want to get technical about it, the terms salaried, and exempt are separate in the eyes of US federal law. Salaried employees are almost always exempt, however, salaried only means you are paid a set amount per work week. If you exceed 40 hours, you are due overtime at least 1.5 times your hourly rate (based on at least weekly pay/40 hours a week or better). It has nothing to with anything other how you can be docked for disciplinary action and how you can take time off. See my pervious post for that.
Exempt employees are exempt from the rules of overtime and some other obscure labor laws. There are four categories for employee's who are exempt from overtime, but again, they only refer to responsibility and a mostly outdated minimum wage requirement. An interesting exception is employee's who are exempt because they work in an information technology job. If I remember correctly, you have to make 28k a year to qualify for that, or the company owes you overtime.
Anyway, none of these laws restricts the company in anyway concerning changes in pay for employee's. Arbitrary or unexpected changes in pay are unethical and extreme, but there's nothing illegal about them. Of course if you're under contract or in a union, the rules are much different.
Umm... that's not quite true. You are not allowed to dock exempt employee's pay in less than full day increments, nor can you allow exempt employee's to take vacation or sick time in less than full day increments. That is simply a product of not tracking an exempt employee's hours/overtime. There's no other regulation though that says you are legally bound to pay an exempt employee what you did last week.
It would be a mistake, however, to conclude from these pronouncements that the Court, having decided in the late 1960s and the 1970s that children are "persons," determined that children should have the same set of constitutional rights that we ascribe to adults. If the Court did see children as persons, then it surely saw them as peculiar sorts of persons for purposes of constitutional analysis. For example, during the 1970s the Court also decided that juveniles did not have three of the procedural rights that adults take for granted: the right to a trial by jury, the right to bail prior to adjudication, and the right to be protected from corporal punishment.
The usual justification for this confusing set of adjudications was that children must be "safeguarded from abuses," and that the state may continue to create laws that will help parents and teachers discharge their joint responsibility for their children's well-being. Moreover, the Court said, since children do not have the "full capacity for individual choice," they may be deprived of certain adult rights (e.g., to marry, to vote), and their activities can be regulated if it can be shown that this will "safeguard the family unit and parental authority." In sum, the catch-phrase of the 1970s Court that "children are persons" is precisely that: a phrase that lacks the precision of a normative principle.
Children under the age of 18 do not have full protection of rights under the constitution in the first place. If someone is going to argue that their violent or explicit videogame should be sold to minors without any restrictions, I don't think that's gonna fly if it goes to the supreme court level.
So let me get this straight, the enforcement agency would be the FTC? They're under staffed and over lobbied as it is. I predict preferential treatment and spotty enforcement. Tha't's assuming that there would be any enforcement at all of course.
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) said it continues to support industry self-regulation on privacy.
Well what a f**king suprise that is!
Gotta agree. If the government has less access to my information, and finds it harder to interact with me becuase I refuse to get a Passport account, then what's the problem? I win both ways.
Some software companies learn this lesson, and then forget it. Case in point Firaxis, creators of Civilization III. Civ II had tremendous flexibility to create new scenarios. It was and is a great game, and also has limitless replay value due to mods and scenarios created every week.
Civ III on the other hand is crippled by shortsighted design. Sure it has a cool built in front end to modify the game rules. But the map creation utility is poor to point of un-usability. Add to that the inability to place starting cities and armies, and the Civ III scenario community basically can't exist.
They learned the lessons, and then threw it out the window for unknown reasons.
Nope, he'd have to share a podium with Lieberman and you know that makes him break out in hives.
Yes, gamefaqs is a goldmine of information for and about video games. Keep in mind though, just because there's little to no industry bias there, doesn't mean there aren't other kinds. And as you previously pointed out, the correct address is www.gamefaqs.com
If then EFF is a registered non-profit (like a 501 (c) (3), the company and the employee could reduce their tax liability with even an informal program of matching. One of the advantages to a payroll deduction of course would be a pre-tax decution rather than claiming it. 1040's are a bitch and only help those who have a morgatge.
You realize that anyone with half a' brain would surmise the outcome of the show from the your thread title alone? I know that only counts for a minority of slashdot users, but still...
Indeed. It gets better though the more you read of that scripts.txt file. I t actually uses German as an example for translation.
The songs in CivIII are all in MP3 format. Replace them with the Beatles or Korn or whatever.
Sid Meier's Civilization III
Dialog box scripts
Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 by Firaxis Games, Inc.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TRANSLATORS!
1) These files must not be saved in "Microsoft Word Format", or they will be ruined. They MUST be saved in "Text Only" format.
2) Please do not insert extra blank lines, nor remove existing blank lines, as this will cause the program to malfunction.
3) But it is normally okay to turn a long line into two shorter lines; for instance:
This is a very long sentence; it probably won't fit on one line in German.
is equivalent to:
This is a very long sentence; It probably
won't fit on one line in German.
I was going to post a lot more but the "lameness" filter interfered. Basically I have to type a bunch of lame crap here to get past the lameness filter. How screwy is that? I also have to butcher the origonal code so slashcode feels it is less lame.
This is rediculous! I've butchered the code to remove all the "junk" characters and I still hit the filter! What the hell? Nice introduction to the lameness filter and slashcode BTW.