--In my home state the success rate (winning in court, getting a settlement, or being offered the job back) was well over 50%, probably approaching 66% last I knew.--
Very informative. BTW, if I'm not being too nosey, where is your home state?
Not trying to get you fired up here but, I have another question?
--They don't have to tell you why they fired you. But in court, they must present a defense. Your attorney will say you were fired for illegal reason X. They will say no, that's not true. The judge will say "why was this employee fired?". The employer will answer, or else lose the case on the spot.--
If they say just because he was no longer needed, then what does the prosecution say?
--Then you bring in your witness(s) who saw/heard/knew why you were really fired, and you win.--
Where would you find those witnesses? If they still work there, they are likely to be hostile to you not sink their ship.
You are right about the "wrong reason" part though. You wouldn't find and employer dumb enough to use that. They would use lack of experience, position eliminated, etc. How many programers let go because they we getting ready to draw retirement ever won one of these cases. Even if you win the company can wear you down by stalling/appealing for years.
The ones with the largest bankroll have the advantage here. Very, very occasionally do you ever here of the little guy winning.
--For example, if they refuse to answer, and you suspect they fired you for harassment, you get a lawyer. They file notice they intend to sue. You go to discovery. Your lawyer asks your manager under oath why you were fired.--
Maybe so, but lawyers cost money. People out of work usually don't have it unless the case was taken pro bono. I dunno different states may be different, but try dealing with the labor board in Virginia. The law here is your employer doesn't have to give you any reason at all.
Many times you ask why am I fired. The answer is we just don't need you any more. Do you think that an empoyer is going to state a reason? Proving those things you state can then be very difficult. That is the difference between theory and practice.
--I've worked in hospitals. They can certainly restrict your duties if you have an infectious diesease, but they CANNOT fire you or terminate you or force you or treat your poorly based on your disability or condition.--
But they can lay you off until you can perform your duties. In the US you can be fired any time no reason at all. Discrimination and being fired for pointing out a safety problem would be the only exceptions but then if they don't give a reason you are screwed anyhow.
--The difference between George Washington and the crazy Islamists today is that G. Washington didn't have his friends in other countries blowing up buildings and killing innocent people far from the fighting. I don't rememember Thomas Jefferson saying it was ok to take the war to the civilians back in Britan or France or kidnap Britsh merchants and cut thier heads off as a 'message to others.'--
But maybe, I don't know that we should have went to war with them over this. I think a much cheaper and effective idea would be to set up some secret assination sqauds to take out the planners. If they can hit us anywhere, why can't we do the same to them without sending in an entire army.
SP2 breaks Aladdin hardlock drivers on AMD64 machines but not Athlon XP. It has to do with Hardware DEP in the AMD64 chips. I changed/noexecute to/execute in boot.ini. Problem solved.
http://www.ealaddin.com/hardlock/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/win xp pro/maintain/sp2mempr.mspx
--Last time I tried to install over an existing installation i seriously regretted it. Took me 3x as long to get everything worked out. So now I uninstall first.--
I've installed the last few updates over the existing ones and have only seen the 503 error on/. Also, if I had too many tabs loading at once Firefox would crash, but both of these problems mysteriously disapeared even before I updated to 0.9.3.
Once upon a time back in the day circa 1985/86 I was using an Atari800XL, that had been modified from 64K to 128K with a toggle switch for compatabilty, to control an experiment on molecular regeneration.
Basicly there were two box like devices. You put a sample in the first box flipped a switch and the sample disapeared from the first box and was recombined in the second box.
We'll one Saturday night something very strange happened. Just as I was replacing the Plutonium core, lightning struck outside and fried the whole experiment. The next thing I knew I was in a different world with powerful strength that I didn't know I had. We'll needless to say when I finally woke up, I found the experiment totally vanished along with the Plutonium, but ther was my Atari.
I turned it on and guess what, it WORKED! It still works unto this day.
--Hanford isn't a nuclear plant, it was a nuclear weapons research facility that also mass-produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.--
Uh, making Plutonium requires a reactor, therfore it's a plant.
FWIW, Putonium is one of the most dangerous elements there is. One tenth of a microgram is enough to cause bone cancer. It's a wonder we are not all dead from this as Hanford dates right straight back to the Manhattan Project and they didn't know what they were doing back then.
We'll I built my first two machines for work a while back. They are both Athlon64 3200 systems on a MSI motherboard in a Antec Sonata case the first one has a CPU temp of 52C and a SYS temp of 35C. The second one I did a better job of seating the CPU and routing te cables and get a CPU temp in the high 30's. This is with a stock AMD cooler and the extra 120mm case fan. The hardest part was getting the RAID set up for the 2 Raptors in RAID 0. I used the Promise controller on the MoBo instead of the VIA. They are CAD systems so i wanted the hard drive speed over reliabilty.
It was a first time build and it didn't take much longer than buying a Dell and removing all of their crap and installing my stuff and i got what I wanted like a floppy drive card reader combo and a daul DVI card that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
Not trying to play Devil's advocate but some mechanics hae to pay for their tools to work for someone. I think the main point would be, is the pay higher than average? How are you comming out with the bottom line?
--# No good support for IE favourites. No wizard, for importing, no ability to automatically detect them (I had to export then from IE and import), no ability to use the IE method of storing bookmarks and retain compatibility with other parts of the OS that show my bookmarks. Hell, if you want people to migrate, make it easy for their bookmarks!--
I'm sorry, i don't have a problem here. Firefox imported my bookmarks seamlessly.
What I would like to have woud be Adobe Acrobat support that doensn't crash Firefox when you exit. It's not a big deal for me but would be for the rest of the office. For the spyware problem I've added the Google toolbar to the ones that complain about pop-ups. Maybe when Firefox gets to ver. 1.1, we will not have the bugs but for a beta it's pretty good.
This is very interesting because I have the exact same choice, Adelphia or Verizon. We can only get Adelphia at work and they would give us a static IP but wont let us run our own mail server. I know it's probably to cut down on spam, but they will not let you run a server of any kind on that static IP. I guess it's only good for VPN. We get good bandwidth but Adelphia is very hard to deal with but we have no choice.
I think it would be very hard to change all of the old land deeds to metric in the US. We already have 2 liter soft drinks and have metric and English parts in cars. Personally, I think the English system is better than metric when dealing with certain materials. Feet and Inches is a 12 base number instead of 10. The metric system is all base 10. Some things work better based different.
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--In my home state the success rate (winning in court, getting a settlement, or being offered the job back) was well over 50%, probably approaching 66% last I knew.--
Very informative. BTW, if I'm not being too nosey, where is your home state?
Not trying to get you fired up here but, I have another question?
--They don't have to tell you why they fired you. But in court, they must present a defense. Your attorney will say you were fired for illegal reason X. They will say no, that's not true. The judge will say "why was this employee fired?". The employer will answer, or else lose the case on the spot.--
If they say just because he was no longer needed, then what does the prosecution say?
--Then you bring in your witness(s) who saw/heard/knew why you were really fired, and you win.--
Where would you find those witnesses? If they still work there, they are likely to be hostile to you not sink their ship.
You are right about the "wrong reason" part though. You wouldn't find and employer dumb enough to use that. They would use lack of experience, position eliminated, etc. How many programers let go because they we getting ready to draw retirement ever won one of these cases. Even if you win the company can wear you down by stalling/appealing for years.
The ones with the largest bankroll have the advantage here. Very, very occasionally do you ever here of the little guy winning.
--For example, if they refuse to answer, and you suspect they fired you for harassment, you get a lawyer. They file notice they intend to sue. You go to discovery. Your lawyer asks your manager under oath why you were fired.--
Maybe so, but lawyers cost money. People out of work usually don't have it unless the case was taken pro bono. I dunno different states may be different, but try dealing with the labor board in Virginia. The law here is your employer doesn't have to give you any reason at all.
Many times you ask why am I fired. The answer is we just don't need you any more. Do you think that an empoyer is going to state a reason? Proving those things you state can then be very difficult. That is the difference between theory and practice.
--I've worked in hospitals. They can certainly restrict your duties if you have an infectious diesease, but they CANNOT fire you or terminate you or force you or treat your poorly based on your disability or condition.--
But they can lay you off until you can perform your duties. In the US you can be fired any time no reason at all. Discrimination and being fired for pointing out a safety problem would be the only exceptions but then if they don't give a reason you are screwed anyhow.
--The UK has a fifth the population of the USA yet has 50 times less gun crime.--
Not trying to be pro or anti gun but..
What are the statistics on non gun crime, heh? I think th UK would rank up there, but of course gun crime leads to more death.
--It's pretty safe to assume they mean per second.--
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This is
Don't assume anything, because you make an ASS out of U & ME.
ASSUME
--But why use WORD to create HTML documents? That's what notepad is for.
No, that's what vi is for.--
That's what Notepad is for in Windows.
--The difference between George Washington and the crazy Islamists today is that G. Washington didn't have his friends in other countries blowing up buildings and killing innocent people far from the fighting. I don't rememember Thomas Jefferson saying it was ok to take the war to the civilians back in Britan or France or kidnap Britsh merchants and cut thier heads off as a 'message to others.'--
But maybe, I don't know that we should have went to war with them over this. I think a much cheaper and effective idea would be to set up some secret assination sqauds to take out the planners. If they can hit us anywhere, why can't we do the same to them without sending in an entire army.
FWIW,
/noexecute to /execute in boot.ini. Problem solved.
n xp pro/maintain/sp2mempr.mspx
SP2 breaks Aladdin hardlock drivers on AMD64 machines but not Athlon XP. It has to do with Hardware DEP in the AMD64 chips. I changed
http://www.ealaddin.com/hardlock/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/wi
MOD this up. It's true. The orginal Klingons looked an acted like WW2 Jap's as well. The original Star Wars had WW2 written on it as well.
--Last time I tried to install over an existing installation i seriously regretted it. Took me 3x as long to get everything worked out. So now I uninstall first.--
/. Also, if I had too many tabs loading at once Firefox would crash, but both of these problems mysteriously disapeared even before I updated to 0.9.3.
I've installed the last few updates over the existing ones and have only seen the 503 error on
Once upon a time back in the day circa 1985/86 I was using an Atari800XL, that had been modified from 64K to 128K with a toggle switch for compatabilty, to control an experiment on molecular regeneration.
Basicly there were two box like devices. You put a sample in the first box flipped a switch and the sample disapeared from the first box and was recombined in the second box.
We'll one Saturday night something very strange happened. Just as I was replacing the Plutonium core, lightning struck outside and fried the whole experiment. The next thing I knew I was in a different world with powerful strength that I didn't know I had. We'll needless to say when I finally woke up, I found the experiment totally vanished along with the Plutonium, but ther was my Atari.
I turned it on and guess what, it WORKED! It still works unto this day.
We'll it (Plutonium) is not the most dangerous thing there is but it's bad enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
--Hanford isn't a nuclear plant, it was a nuclear weapons research facility that also mass-produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.--
Uh, making Plutonium requires a reactor, therfore it's a plant.
FWIW,
Putonium is one of the most dangerous elements there is. One tenth of a microgram is enough to cause bone cancer. It's a wonder we are not all dead from this as Hanford dates right straight back to the Manhattan Project and they didn't know what they were doing back then.
or...
use bittorrent through a proxy
not that i would do that.
We'll I built my first two machines for work a while back. They are both Athlon64 3200 systems on a MSI motherboard in a Antec Sonata case the first one has a CPU temp of 52C and a SYS temp of 35C. The second one I did a better job of seating the CPU and routing te cables and get a CPU temp in the high 30's. This is with a stock AMD cooler and the extra 120mm case fan. The hardest part was getting the RAID set up for the 2 Raptors in RAID 0. I used the Promise controller on the MoBo instead of the VIA. They are CAD systems so i wanted the hard drive speed over reliabilty.
It was a first time build and it didn't take much longer than buying a Dell and removing all of their crap and installing my stuff and i got what I wanted like a floppy drive card reader combo and a daul DVI card that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
Not trying to play Devil's advocate but some mechanics hae to pay for their tools to work for someone. I think the main point would be, is the pay higher than average? How are you comming out with the bottom line?
--Javascript, PDF and Flash all work like a charm in Firefox.--
Just how do you get PDF's to work? They work on my XP box but when I close them Firefox crashess most of the time.
--Where to begin? The overtime ripoff, outsourcing, tax cuts for the rich, PATRIOT act, PATRIOT II, TIA, DMCA,--
DMCA? I thought Clinton signed that one? As someone here once said, it's not just the Republicans but the Democrats are in on it too.
for the fembots.
--# No good support for IE favourites. No wizard, for importing, no ability to automatically detect them (I had to export then from IE and import), no ability to use the IE method of storing bookmarks and retain compatibility with other parts of the OS that show my bookmarks. Hell, if you want people to migrate, make it easy for their bookmarks!--
I'm sorry, i don't have a problem here. Firefox imported my bookmarks seamlessly.
What I would like to have woud be Adobe Acrobat support that doensn't crash Firefox when you exit. It's not a big deal for me but would be for the rest of the office. For the spyware problem I've added the Google toolbar to the ones that complain about pop-ups. Maybe when Firefox gets to ver. 1.1, we will not have the bugs but for a beta it's pretty good.
This is very interesting because I have the exact same choice, Adelphia or Verizon. We can only get Adelphia at work and they would give us a static IP but wont let us run our own mail server. I know it's probably to cut down on spam, but they will not let you run a server of any kind on that static IP. I guess it's only good for VPN. We get good bandwidth but Adelphia is very hard to deal with but we have no choice.
I think it would be very hard to change all of the old land deeds to metric in the US. We already have 2 liter soft drinks and have metric and English parts in cars. Personally, I think the English system is better than metric when dealing with certain materials. Feet and Inches is a 12 base number instead of 10. The metric system is all base 10. Some things work better based different.
1 (square mile) = 640 acres
(1/4) (square mile) = 160 acres
1 mile = 320 rods
(1/4) mile = 80 rods
1 township = 36 sections
1 section = 640 acres
1 section = 1 square mile
1 quarter section = 160 acres
1 quarter section = 1/2 mile long & 1/2 mile wide
1 eighth section = 80 acres
1 eighth section = 1/2 mile long & 1/4 mile wide
1 sixteenth section = 40 acres
1 sixteenth section = 1/4 mile long & 1/4 mile wide
I split atoms every day after supper.