I agree with this. Provided you're still willing to go into the office when necessary, for meetings and stuff, you do not become any less of an asset for the company and therefor do not deserve to be paid any less than if you were still in the office. You save the company money by working from home. Sun Micro knows this and a lot of their low level employees are required to work from home part of the time. When they come in they grab any of the many generic cubicles to work in, kind of like hot-bunking on the old submarines.
That being said if you really want to work from home and you really don't want to change jobs and the only way your boss will let you do it is to take a cut or a lesser raise, then do it I guess, but know that your boss is an assclown.
Do you have stairs? Climbing stairs is great exercise that will get your heart rate up really fast. If you take two or three 10 minute stair climbing breaks per day, it will increase your average metabolism, even when you are sitting around.
It means that either electricity is too cheap or you have too much money. Why not give me some?
BTW the cops like to execute search warrants on people that use lots of electricity, apperantly it's probable cause for suspicion someone is growing pot.
Should the author of _Johnny Trumane_ be held liable if a minor reads it and goes on to incite a revolution? What about the producers of violent and disturbing movies like Seven, or Psycho? I am sick of this discrimination towards anything with the silicon chips in it.
I love my Leatherman Wave. I use it on a near daily basis. I can really crank on the pliars without gouging my hands. It's very good for stripping wire, which I do a lot. And it will cut pretty heavy guage steel wire, I've even cut through barbed wire with it (don't ask). I hate flying because I can't carry it on. Living in Vermont I've seen a lot of different multitools, and the Wave is still my first choice.
I did break it once, but I was absolutely abusing it. I grabbed something with the tips of the pliars and tried to twist it, and neatly snapped one of the tines off. I sent it in to Leatherman and they send me a brandy new one a week later, which they really didn't have to do since the only way to break it like that is through foolishness. Actually the new one is slightly improved from my older model of Wave, better detents on the blades and pliars. I noticed it wasn't made in the USA though, which I was slightly disappointed about, but I suppose it's hard to profitably make anything in the USA anymore. Or maybe it's only the replacements that aren't made the USA, that could be.
But the bottom line is that the wave kicks ass and is the best by far, IMO.
You can already buy machines that generate power, they're called generators. But for some reason, the power companies still exist. You can also right now effectively power your house from solar and wind and maintain a high quality of life, I know several people who do so and live off the grid. But there are still power companies. Why? Because they generate electricity in bulk and so can do it cheaply, and because it's more convenient for the consumer than maintaining their own power generation facilities.
I got a few calls over a couple of days a few weeks ago, with no caller ID info. I answered them because I'm not a tin-foil-hat-wearer, and they invariably would hang up after a few seconds. It was a bit odd.
Generally speaking, if you are accused of violating a restraining order, you get arrested ASAP. However you then go to court where the complaintant will probably be expected to bring evidence showing you violated the order, like for example the cops found you outside her window with your pants around your ankles. You will also be able to bring evidence showing that you did not violate the order, like for example the cops couldn't find you for a week because you were out of the country or something.
Obviously there are people who will try to abuse the system. Judges are well aware of that. It's a lot harder to get someone convicted of violating a restraining order than it is to get a restraining order in the first place.
Honestly, if someone is that pissed at you, maybe you should think about leaving the area for a while, or at least stay with friends so that you DO have a good alibi in the case of a vindictive bitch.
LGPL is important, because you can not legally link a GPL licensed library into a non-GPL application. That may not directly affect free software, but getting lots of people to use free software does, and licensing libraries under the LGPL makes them more usable to more people.
I agree there also needs to be a license geared more towards documents, like CC, or the GNU Free Documentation License, or something.
Yeah but at that point the DSL traffic is being multiplexed neatly. Cablemodems use a contention protocol, like unswitched ethernet, which means packet collisions. That's why the latency is coupled to usage much more so than on DSL.
You'll note the devices would be for people who have already violated the restraining order. Restraining orders are easy to get in most states, they're also easy for the defendant to not violate them. Don't screw up, don't get a tracking device. Simple.
No, it's usually simple in that it sucks and breaks all the standard UI guidelines because it was written by idiots who don't know how to program. And none of those people know this guy's brother as well as he does. And there are still a lot of kids with problems out there so obviously the experts of which you speak don't have all the answers. Again, it doesn't take a genious to see that most of the crappy infotainment out there isn't really educational.
He's into video games eh? Crack open a remedial reading textbook, write a video game based on it's methods. You benefit from the know-how of the "experts" and your brother benefits from you making learning not boring. You could do it in Flash or something and make it really A/V cool.
There is one educational program that I personally found helpful, and that was MathBlaster.
From my experience, educational software is usually laughably simple, especially given the price. If you don't totally suck at teh programming, try writing some of your own tools for him and then work with him to refine them and target them towards his specific issues. It doesn't take a rocket scientist. Get a copy of perl/tk or something and start hacking.
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That being said if you really want to work from home and you really don't want to change jobs and the only way your boss will let you do it is to take a cut or a lesser raise, then do it I guess, but know that your boss is an assclown.
Anyway, who really belives that this is where MS is headed? It's laughable when after all these years they still can't even get Windows right.
Also, exercise like a bastard on your days off.
BTW the cops like to execute search warrants on people that use lots of electricity, apperantly it's probable cause for suspicion someone is growing pot.
I don't know how you got from clothesline to cheap white trash, but I think it involves being an assclown.
Oh yeah and shooting assholes who enforce CC&Rs or other restrictions on clothes lines.
Do you think Bill Gates will keep a universal robot remote control in her bra like Mom?
Should the author of _Johnny Trumane_ be held liable if a minor reads it and goes on to incite a revolution? What about the producers of violent and disturbing movies like Seven, or Psycho? I am sick of this discrimination towards anything with the silicon chips in it.
It looks just like KDE now.
I did break it once, but I was absolutely abusing it. I grabbed something with the tips of the pliars and tried to twist it, and neatly snapped one of the tines off. I sent it in to Leatherman and they send me a brandy new one a week later, which they really didn't have to do since the only way to break it like that is through foolishness. Actually the new one is slightly improved from my older model of Wave, better detents on the blades and pliars. I noticed it wasn't made in the USA though, which I was slightly disappointed about, but I suppose it's hard to profitably make anything in the USA anymore. Or maybe it's only the replacements that aren't made the USA, that could be.
But the bottom line is that the wave kicks ass and is the best by far, IMO.
You can already buy machines that generate power, they're called generators. But for some reason, the power companies still exist. You can also right now effectively power your house from solar and wind and maintain a high quality of life, I know several people who do so and live off the grid. But there are still power companies. Why? Because they generate electricity in bulk and so can do it cheaply, and because it's more convenient for the consumer than maintaining their own power generation facilities.
I got a few calls over a couple of days a few weeks ago, with no caller ID info. I answered them because I'm not a tin-foil-hat-wearer, and they invariably would hang up after a few seconds. It was a bit odd.
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If the TAX was only $2500 imagine how much that idiot payed for the actual CIGARETTES??
You want justification? My /. number is lower than yours. STFU.
Obviously there are people who will try to abuse the system. Judges are well aware of that. It's a lot harder to get someone convicted of violating a restraining order than it is to get a restraining order in the first place.
Honestly, if someone is that pissed at you, maybe you should think about leaving the area for a while, or at least stay with friends so that you DO have a good alibi in the case of a vindictive bitch.
IANAL, so YMMV.
Just kidding, for now...
I agree there also needs to be a license geared more towards documents, like CC, or the GNU Free Documentation License, or something.
Yeah but at that point the DSL traffic is being multiplexed neatly. Cablemodems use a contention protocol, like unswitched ethernet, which means packet collisions. That's why the latency is coupled to usage much more so than on DSL.
You'll note the devices would be for people who have already violated the restraining order. Restraining orders are easy to get in most states, they're also easy for the defendant to not violate them. Don't screw up, don't get a tracking device. Simple.
As for felons not being allowed to posses guns or vote, that varies by state, and is of questionable constitutionality.
Fuck that, how long until they engineer a tree that grows CASH MONEY?
Good point.
He's into video games eh? Crack open a remedial reading textbook, write a video game based on it's methods. You benefit from the know-how of the "experts" and your brother benefits from you making learning not boring. You could do it in Flash or something and make it really A/V cool.
There is one educational program that I personally found helpful, and that was MathBlaster.
From my experience, educational software is usually laughably simple, especially given the price. If you don't totally suck at teh programming, try writing some of your own tools for him and then work with him to refine them and target them towards his specific issues. It doesn't take a rocket scientist. Get a copy of perl/tk or something and start hacking.