I haven't worked for a company that actually has sick days in over a decade. Even salaried employees like myself have to use their vacation time if they get sick (how does that make sense?). Fortunately, I can work from home whenever I want but most others do not have that luxury.
I understand that many employers have made this move because people would abuse sick time, but if they implemented a system whereby employees could draw from their sick pool instead of vacation pool if they presented a doctor's note, I think that productivity overall would increase.
Damned if you do, etc. Back when I was in a corporation which gave like 5 sick days separate from vacation time, people would rush to be "sick" in December so as not to waste their sick days. Now sick days and vacation days are lumped into PTO days, and if you are not a long time employee you risk being sick and not being able to take a whole week off to travel on a vacation.
And fuck any system which makes you get a doctor's note. If I feel crappy enough to stay home, the last thing I want to do is drag myself to the doctor's office. At least with the PTO system the company doesn't care if you took the day to be sick or rake leaves.
I was worried about terrorists getting their hands on this technology, but then I read "The full article is in Nature, but paywalled.". Yay! Safe from the evil doers!
I am as much for free and open software as the next nerd, but having its spokesman say about potential users that "they can be herded into giving up their freedom by a combination of convenient features, pressure from institutions and the network effect...." is extremely counterproductive. He is admitting that free software is inconvenient, that it isn't going to be supported by your workplace or school, and - what? What the heck is the "network effect"?
Last thing I heard, there is still no sign of life on Mars, so shouldn't "tossing the body out of the window" be perfectly clean and sanitary, as long as you don't mind seeing eternally-preserved bodies outside?
We now know something about martian dust airflow, so you could probably get a rough calculation of how long it would take for a frozen corpse to be sandblasted beyond usable recognition...
GIS corpses on Everest. Probably a fair prediction.
A polygraph works far better than than random. They are not good enough to be admissible in court, and they can be defeated by someone trained, but they are still a good tool for screening out obvious liars. They are much better than nothing, as long as you are aware of their limitations.
Unfortunately, spies and moles are not obvious liars and don't get caught by polygraphs. That can give an institution a false sense of security.
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states and the territories will create an accounting nightmare. The only companies that can afford to hire the people to do it would be the dominant players like Amazon. So, all the small start ups would be stifled right out of the gate. The end result will be a near monopoly and very few start ups bringing new ideas to market.
OK, independent of the question of good or evil, wouldn't that be an opportunity for a startup which offered that service to other startups?
You do realize that previously the deniers argued that it absolutely *wasn't* happening. Now that we've proven it *is* happening they are on to, "Well ok, but it's not us that's causing it".
1. It's not happening.
2. Okay, it's happening, but we didn't do it.
3. Okay, it's happening, and we did it, but it's too expensive to fix it.
Hold the phone, there, Alfred. You have to think about how early you want to be able to find mutating cells. There is a sweet spot of detection - when the cancer is not yet so advanced that it can be treated - below which you may want to think twice about going. If this research results in the ability to detect cells as soon as they mutate, you and the media may think this is a great advance, but the body's immune system is able to sense and kill the vast majority of mutating cells before they grow into a tumor. At a certain detection level, the test is going to give positive results for "cancer" for most people. Then what do you do? You go to the doctor and the doctor tells you that you have malignant cells in your body. Are you going to not worry or are you going to demand treatment?
The point of mixing the fluids is that you cannot otherwise impart enough heat to flash boil the water.
That begs the question, can you not otherwise impart enough heat to flash boil the water? Why not a big metallic thermal load, made out of recycled popcans?
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But then again, what would the Microsoft do if they were in their position....
40%
all the IP will go to the Chinese.
At least this time we got them to pay for it.
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I haven't worked for a company that actually has sick days in over a decade. Even salaried employees like myself have to use their vacation time if they get sick (how does that make sense?). Fortunately, I can work from home whenever I want but most others do not have that luxury.
I understand that many employers have made this move because people would abuse sick time, but if they implemented a system whereby employees could draw from their sick pool instead of vacation pool if they presented a doctor's note, I think that productivity overall would increase.
Damned if you do, etc. Back when I was in a corporation which gave like 5 sick days separate from vacation time, people would rush to be "sick" in December so as not to waste their sick days. Now sick days and vacation days are lumped into PTO days, and if you are not a long time employee you risk being sick and not being able to take a whole week off to travel on a vacation.
And fuck any system which makes you get a doctor's note. If I feel crappy enough to stay home, the last thing I want to do is drag myself to the doctor's office. At least with the PTO system the company doesn't care if you took the day to be sick or rake leaves.
I was worried about terrorists getting their hands on this technology, but then I read "The full article is in Nature, but paywalled.". Yay! Safe from the evil doers!
I am as much for free and open software as the next nerd, but having its spokesman say about potential users that "they can be herded into giving up their freedom by a combination of convenient features, pressure from institutions and the network effect...." is extremely counterproductive. He is admitting that free software is inconvenient, that it isn't going to be supported by your workplace or school, and - what? What the heck is the "network effect"?
Last thing I heard, there is still no sign of life on Mars, so shouldn't "tossing the body out of the window" be perfectly clean and sanitary, as long as you don't mind seeing eternally-preserved bodies outside?
We now know something about martian dust airflow, so you could probably get a rough calculation of how long it would take for a frozen corpse to be sandblasted beyond usable recognition...
GIS corpses on Everest. Probably a fair prediction.
A polygraph works far better than than random. They are not good enough to be admissible in court, and they can be defeated by someone trained, but they are still a good tool for screening out obvious liars. They are much better than nothing, as long as you are aware of their limitations.
Unfortunately, spies and moles are not obvious liars and don't get caught by polygraphs. That can give an institution a false sense of security.
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states and the territories will create an accounting nightmare. The only companies that can afford to hire the people to do it would be the dominant players like Amazon. So, all the small start ups would be stifled right out of the gate. The end result will be a near monopoly and very few start ups bringing new ideas to market.
OK, independent of the question of good or evil, wouldn't that be an opportunity for a startup which offered that service to other startups?
The book for chocolate nerds: http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperors-Chocolate-Inside-Hershey/dp/0767904575
Melts in your Mouth. Not in your pocket.
Melts in an oven. Not in your intestines.
When word of this new policy came down, there was one common response among the young employees: Toga! Toga! Toga!
You do realize that previously the deniers argued that it absolutely *wasn't* happening. Now that we've proven it *is* happening they are on to, "Well ok, but it's not us that's causing it".
1. It's not happening.
2. Okay, it's happening, but we didn't do it.
3. Okay, it's happening, and we did it, but it's too expensive to fix it.
Hold the phone, there, Alfred. You have to think about how early you want to be able to find mutating cells. There is a sweet spot of detection - when the cancer is not yet so advanced that it can be treated - below which you may want to think twice about going. If this research results in the ability to detect cells as soon as they mutate, you and the media may think this is a great advance, but the body's immune system is able to sense and kill the vast majority of mutating cells before they grow into a tumor. At a certain detection level, the test is going to give positive results for "cancer" for most people. Then what do you do? You go to the doctor and the doctor tells you that you have malignant cells in your body. Are you going to not worry or are you going to demand treatment?
(It's about the money.)
I am waiting for the story about Cody Brocious being sued by Onity for enabling this crime.
"Damn it, Jim - I'm a doctor, not an air conditioner repairman!"
Which wife is it now - your second or your third?
Are you forgetting where you are? It's his inflatable wife.
(Who knows how many have worn out on him. 'Til death or a leak us do part.)
The point of mixing the fluids is that you cannot otherwise impart enough heat to flash boil the water.
That begs the question, can you not otherwise impart enough heat to flash boil the water? Why not a big metallic thermal load, made out of recycled popcans?
That's not begging the question.
I need a foreign country that is more conservative than the US to move to.
Somalia? Saudi Arabia? Send us a postcard and tell us how you like your new digs.
Coal spews more radiation than a nuclear meltdown, and kills many more people in it's extraction and mining. How's that for some things not to love?
Well, I don't love it, and you don't love it, but the people with the money who are making the decisions love it.
I can't help thinking that the average Slashdot reader has already watched every episode of Good Eats and knows not to do this already.
What're you lookin' at? Huh? You lookin' at me? ANSWER ME!
How much longer did this nonsense have to continue?!
How long can you tread water?
I prefer to jaypayg my images.