Will the executives be subject to this also? I can suggest staking out golf courses, marinas (when weather is nice of course), Martha's Vineyard (or wherever the local trophy home location is), and their secretary's apartments.
The title of the article is deceptive though. It isn't about people being stalked because they took a sick day or two off, it is about people abusing long term medical leave. That I have to admit I don't have a problem with them investigating. If you say you are unable to work because you can't walk and they catch you helping your neighbor move a sofa down 5 flights of stairs then I'd agree you should be busted.
Investigating someone for being out 3 days with the flu strikes me as a bit petty though. Maybe the problem at that point is your employees need some vacation time or you just have lousy moral. Firing people left and right won't make the remaining ones any better and won't guarantee you will magically get a flood of super workers to replace them (or that they won't end up as unhappy as the first bunch).
I remember the first version where you could use grenades to blow holes in the walls to shoot through. Then there was a sequal where the guards could trip alarms, you could loot things like keys and bulletproof vests, and you had to bomb Hitler.
I remember loading Flight Simulator off of cassette onto an Apple II. You had to listen for the lead-in tone, stop it, then connect the player to the PC then play it. Then when it finished you had to issue a BRUN (binary run) command to a specific memory location. The best part was the flight simulator had enemy planes that were dots, a grid for land, and 2D mountains.
I wish most tuning efforts only required fixing glaring index issues. You eventually find yourself dealing with large dbs with all the basic tuning done and now they want to get app X to return in 8 secs instead of 10. Then you go down the rabbit hole of initialization params, hints, etc. Sadly design considerations are almost always off the plate at this point.
Finally, MS is finding a way to elimiate all those pesky quiet moments so they can be filled with email and web browsing. I look forward to Meditation Computing.
I'd mod this insightful. You'd think that if they were properly trained soldiers they would have the wherewithall to check a real map once they saw a Costa Rican flag. That would've set off all sorts of bells for me. Not sure what they were doing depending on Google Maps in the first place though.
The fact that they took the Costa Rican flag down and replaced it with their own though makes me wonder if this was a "mistake". Sounds like they raised a middle finger along with their flag.
The problem with 3D as it currently stands is that I never forget that I'm watching a 3D movie. I never feel immersed in the effect, I always am aware of it and think "Ohhh, they did a 3D thing here." It feels more like a gimmick than a natural part of the experience.
rich people (like Gates, Jobs, Trump) can take care of themselves
I'm sure they do. I truly doubt that they are depending on medicare. Set a cap on personal income for either of those programs and I doubt there'd be any significant change. The real cost is the bulk of the population who actually struggle with medical costs. Whether they are ready to support cuts to that and eat a bigger chunk of the cost themselves remains to be seen.
Of course the big ticket items need to put on the table, I don't dispute that. My point is that what you consider "welfare" is purely opinion, some consider it a right and that is what you have for different viewpoints in a democracy. Any congressman worth his seat will tell you that programs for YOUR district are waste but programs for HIS district are necessary and his constituents demand it.
Trivial
2% of US revenue isn't trivial. The US Dept of Education's budget for 2010 is $56 billion so yes how $80 billion could be spent isn't trivial to some people.
Funny how when someone or their family needs medicare they stop calling it welfare.
80 billion is not a small number, it is pretty huge and every dollar in it means a dollar that isn't going to another need. The biggest problem is that it is all hush-hush so there is little monitoring to control costs or waste and no likelyhood of an impartial public group analyzing it. At least with SSI/Medicare it is on the table and subject to citizen input (a majority of people want it and actually need it). I can't say that about the intelligence feeding trough.
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Ummm, where have you been playing?
Will the executives be subject to this also? I can suggest staking out golf courses, marinas (when weather is nice of course), Martha's Vineyard (or wherever the local trophy home location is), and their secretary's apartments.
The title of the article is deceptive though. It isn't about people being stalked because they took a sick day or two off, it is about people abusing long term medical leave. That I have to admit I don't have a problem with them investigating. If you say you are unable to work because you can't walk and they catch you helping your neighbor move a sofa down 5 flights of stairs then I'd agree you should be busted.
Investigating someone for being out 3 days with the flu strikes me as a bit petty though. Maybe the problem at that point is your employees need some vacation time or you just have lousy moral. Firing people left and right won't make the remaining ones any better and won't guarantee you will magically get a flood of super workers to replace them (or that they won't end up as unhappy as the first bunch).
The mafia killed each other all the time and I don't recall them ever shutting down or changing their methods because of this.
As someone once said (Kurt Tucholsky?) "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."
Even Warren Buffett has enough empathy to know he paid (according to his words) a higher tax rate than his secretary has at least one year.
It could be worse, there is a Whitehead Institute near me. Then there is Mr Lipschitz.
Hellabad
Speaking of the early days, you owe someone $ for watching that coffee maker in England for all those years.
I remember the first version where you could use grenades to blow holes in the walls to shoot through. Then there was a sequal where the guards could trip alarms, you could loot things like keys and bulletproof vests, and you had to bomb Hitler.
I remember loading Flight Simulator off of cassette onto an Apple II. You had to listen for the lead-in tone, stop it, then connect the player to the PC then play it. Then when it finished you had to issue a BRUN (binary run) command to a specific memory location. The best part was the flight simulator had enemy planes that were dots, a grid for land, and 2D mountains.
The secret to nethack is to use the semicolon on the amperstand.
They are coming out with a new version in unicode. That is going to rock!
I wish most tuning efforts only required fixing glaring index issues. You eventually find yourself dealing with large dbs with all the basic tuning done and now they want to get app X to return in 8 secs instead of 10. Then you go down the rabbit hole of initialization params, hints, etc. Sadly design considerations are almost always off the plate at this point.
Good thing all my db's are massive, flat text files.
Post some of that to the comments section of Fox News and the New York Times and lets see what happens.
Finally, MS is finding a way to elimiate all those pesky quiet moments so they can be filled with email and web browsing. I look forward to Meditation Computing.
I see this not as a problem but as an oppurtunity to develop a laptop that vibrates also. Might be a bit embarrassing when used on the train though.
I'd mod this insightful. You'd think that if they were properly trained soldiers they would have the wherewithall to check a real map once they saw a Costa Rican flag. That would've set off all sorts of bells for me. Not sure what they were doing depending on Google Maps in the first place though.
The fact that they took the Costa Rican flag down and replaced it with their own though makes me wonder if this was a "mistake". Sounds like they raised a middle finger along with their flag.
Every president, regardless of party, gets their war. It is in the contract I think.
I would just avoid the paté at the lab holiday party if you ask me.
The problem with 3D as it currently stands is that I never forget that I'm watching a 3D movie. I never feel immersed in the effect, I always am aware of it and think "Ohhh, they did a 3D thing here." It feels more like a gimmick than a natural part of the experience.
Here is one experiment to try, how much can I fool around with an induction cooktop before I hurt myself?
rich people (like Gates, Jobs, Trump) can take care of themselves
I'm sure they do. I truly doubt that they are depending on medicare. Set a cap on personal income for either of those programs and I doubt there'd be any significant change. The real cost is the bulk of the population who actually struggle with medical costs. Whether they are ready to support cuts to that and eat a bigger chunk of the cost themselves remains to be seen.
Of course the big ticket items need to put on the table, I don't dispute that. My point is that what you consider "welfare" is purely opinion, some consider it a right and that is what you have for different viewpoints in a democracy. Any congressman worth his seat will tell you that programs for YOUR district are waste but programs for HIS district are necessary and his constituents demand it.
Trivial
2% of US revenue isn't trivial. The US Dept of Education's budget for 2010 is $56 billion so yes how $80 billion could be spent isn't trivial to some people.
You will also be free from hearing all the sarcastic comments being made about "The dork over there in the plastic dome."
You might want a fan in there too if you order garlic and anchovies.
Funny how when someone or their family needs medicare they stop calling it welfare.
80 billion is not a small number, it is pretty huge and every dollar in it means a dollar that isn't going to another need. The biggest problem is that it is all hush-hush so there is little monitoring to control costs or waste and no likelyhood of an impartial public group analyzing it. At least with SSI/Medicare it is on the table and subject to citizen input (a majority of people want it and actually need it). I can't say that about the intelligence feeding trough.
Way to scare Detroit.