There are always exceptions to the common case. Professional sports are rather different than most day-jobs, so I'd imagine that a professional sports union is rather *different* from a normal union...
Both: Depending on your area's representation in the union, some people are more "equal" than others
One thing to remember is that a union is more or less a led-by-majority concept. The majority votes in a leader, and the leader is generally more sympathetic (and/or knowlegable) to the issues of his/her originating area. So if your department is in the minority, your overall representation within the union is probably less.
As per everyone being equal, well it's generally a little harder to put the screws to any given employee or group, as an overall union backlash my result. But the other side is that similar positions tend to get similar pay grades, etc, and it's pretty hard to reward exceptional performance of individuals, or to deal with those that are consistent under-performers.
The IT industry is also known for salaried positioned with long (or just consistent "on call") hours. When the union finds that companies often keeping employees at 10+ hours a day they'll start putting the screws to employers.
The RIAA doesn't make movies, that would be the MPAA. I've heard an odd case here and there, but haven't noticed them rampaging from case to case the way the RIAA has. Seems the MPAA is more likely to go after you if you bring a video camera into a movie theater...
Didn't say it was right or wrong, just that it was a good reason that this one probably wasn't going to be a very easy sell.
Top be fair though, it seems that handsfree and other such things tend to be more commonly used by the business types, whereas the soccer-mom varieties tend to be juggling the steering-wheel of the minivan with one hand and the phone with the other.
So the key sheath what sends the signal... meaning that it's going to be extra expensive to lose/break/etc?
It seems to depend on a lot of factors that aren't going to go over very well:
a) You need the key
b) You need a supported phone
c) You need your phone tied to the key
d) The auto-response feature won't work against landlines or phones that don't support texting (in the ad it shows a text message).
Overall, it generally looks really fucking irritating. I avoid the phone when possible if I'm in the car, but there can be reasons to make a call when stopped etc (running late) or to receive calls in an emergency.
The question of "what if it's a business call" and the answer of "it'll text the caller that you're driving" isn't going to go over very well, nor it is going to when your mother calls 5-min in to say "your dad is in the hospital" while you're headed out to a 4h drive...
People should just buy the best CPU for the job they try to accomplish instead of buying the power hungry CPUs if they don't need them.
Because a PC is meant to multi-purpose. Sometimes you need a power-hungry CPU, and sometimes you don't. Most people don't have so many computers around (as an IT person I do, and even I find it gets cluttered and annoying at times), so having machines of multiple power would be less convenient than having a machine that scales better to the task(s) at hand.
No, they also found a shrunken heart which they attribute to the owner being either a politician/lawyer.
The brain they believe may have belonged to a early **professional athlete, and it's lasted for quite a long time because it apparently wasn't used much:-)
**disclaimer: Humor intended, I actually know some fairly smart athletes
When I have something that I need to run for a longer period of time (long download, etc) I just run it on one of my low-power boxes. Running a via C7, they're always on, and they use a *max* of 45-60W power (that's as much as the brick can supply) for everything including the drives, etc. Generally, they use a lot less than that (significiantly less than a lightbulb)
Now I've seen that modern PC's can go into advanced sleep modes to conserve power, and that a lot of CPU's can throttle to save a certain amount of juice as well (anyone have a page with stats on the power-usage for different ratios), but is there an intermediary step? How about having a secondary CPU/core which low power-consumption, but enough to run basic tasks such as downloading stuff, etc.
When your computer isn't being actively used, allow the user to switch to "low profile" mode where the main CPU, GPU, various peripherals, (user-selectable) etc power down and then re-activate when they're actually needed by the user.
Seriously, having a 2GHZ*quad-core machine with 4GB of RAM and a kickass graphics card is great, but there's not much call for it in the off-hours when you only need the equivalent of a P3-900Mhz or less for your downloads.
What lame-brain dummy would think that either:-( or;-) are trademarkable symbols
Actually, I think that the lame-brain in this case is not the "businessman" (although extortionist might be a better term), but the idiot who actually granted the application...
One could think of it being like: many people put together computers. Some people build them at home, while large companies such as Dell sell by volume. They have a large array of companies supplying parts and components, and you can't really say that one is more valuable than the other.
Section 6 "with the intent to permanently deprive the other of it" is sufficiently flexible to include situations where the property is later returned.
Just out of curiosity, who are you referring to "Canadians." These groups aren't representative, they're just a SIG with currently high visibility and low intelligence.
I think there's already a precedent for the age at the time a picture is taken or a person is depicted.
For example, distributing a naked picture taken today of a girl that's 20: not legal
Distributing a naked picture (or portrait depiction, unless it's "art") of the same girl, but taken/drawn when she was 13: not legal, even if she's over 18 now...
I suppose a lot of it depends on what you buy too. One example would be when I lived in a small town for awhile (literally a town, it wasn't big enough to qualify as a city).
They used to have an excellent butcher/corner-store. You could get good quality meat at an incredible price, and the produce was pretty good too. The place was a short walk from my home, so in the summer I used to walk down, pick up fresh meat, and cook a damn good dinner. The prices might have been a bit more than low-quality meat, but it was still very affordable and very good.
Within an period of about two years after I left, an Extra-Foods (Loblaws) and WalMart moved in. I had planned to drop through town specifically to visit my favorite butcher but unfortunately they're now out of business and have closed. I'm guessing that their meat was still selling, but sales of other items including vegetables/etc couldn't compete with the big boys on price. Sad... I've yet to find a place with a souvlaki-steaks that were quite as good.
Most of the ones I know are local, so they wouldn't mean much to you. You might want to check out some of the smaller cities/towns in BC, Canada though if you're really interested as opposed to just playing Devil's Advocate.
Drugs legalized + government taxes on sales. As they become more commonplace, the profit involved with the current sellers will decrease (potential profit and risk often run together), and legal industries will be created, along with tax revenue, etc.
Except the consumer gets screwed by this - essentially it's a way to make price comparison more difficult
Ah yes, but an alternate syndrome is where a big chain store busts into town, sells at cut-throat margins and drives the local stores out, then jack prices back up after all the competition has failed or fled.
That's not good for the consumer either, but it's been known to happen fairly often.
Was this girl actually served papers? Is there some sort of precedent that exists for if you're unable to make the court date due to unexpected/unavoidable causes, for example if you're served while in a coma, or you're served, hit by a bus, and then unable to make court (due to being in a coma, etc).
In this case it looks like she may have just disregarded the legal paperwork while dealing with health issues... TFA is a little light on details in that regard as all it talks about it how poor she is and unable to pay the fees due to her condition.
I dunno. Losing an eye and having it replaced (in the future) with a bionic implant having telescoping vision and infrared would beat a synthesized voice... although I'd imagine that if you could tweak your own software to produce any voice you want it could be fun.
Of course, at this point neither of these technologies are quite so well developed yet.
I doubt that trash collectors or bricklayers could afford the procedures to be "suspended" though, at least not for awhile. I doubt the class that could afford it would be find such jobs desirable either.
Of course, if one had enough cash and banked money in a long-term decent-yield savings account, you might not need to work after being reanimated. "freezout kids", anyone?
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There are always exceptions to the common case. Professional sports are rather different than most day-jobs, so I'd imagine that a professional sports union is rather *different* from a normal union...
Good: Everyone is equal
Bad: Everyone is equal
Both: Depending on your area's representation in the union, some people are more "equal" than others
One thing to remember is that a union is more or less a led-by-majority concept. The majority votes in a leader, and the leader is generally more sympathetic (and/or knowlegable) to the issues of his/her originating area. So if your department is in the minority, your overall representation within the union is probably less.
As per everyone being equal, well it's generally a little harder to put the screws to any given employee or group, as an overall union backlash my result. But the other side is that similar positions tend to get similar pay grades, etc, and it's pretty hard to reward exceptional performance of individuals, or to deal with those that are consistent under-performers.
The IT industry is also known for salaried positioned with long (or just consistent "on call") hours. When the union finds that companies often keeping employees at 10+ hours a day they'll start putting the screws to employers.
The RIAA doesn't make movies, that would be the MPAA. I've heard an odd case here and there, but haven't noticed them rampaging from case to case the way the RIAA has. Seems the MPAA is more likely to go after you if you bring a video camera into a movie theater...
Didn't say it was right or wrong, just that it was a good reason that this one probably wasn't going to be a very easy sell.
Top be fair though, it seems that handsfree and other such things tend to be more commonly used by the business types, whereas the soccer-mom varieties tend to be juggling the steering-wheel of the minivan with one hand and the phone with the other.
So the key sheath what sends the signal... meaning that it's going to be extra expensive to lose/break/etc?
It seems to depend on a lot of factors that aren't going to go over very well:
a) You need the key
b) You need a supported phone
c) You need your phone tied to the key
d) The auto-response feature won't work against landlines or phones that don't support texting (in the ad it shows a text message).
Overall, it generally looks really fucking irritating. I avoid the phone when possible if I'm in the car, but there can be reasons to make a call when stopped etc (running late) or to receive calls in an emergency.
The question of "what if it's a business call" and the answer of "it'll text the caller that you're driving" isn't going to go over very well, nor it is going to when your mother calls 5-min in to say "your dad is in the hospital" while you're headed out to a 4h drive...
People should just buy the best CPU for the job they try to accomplish instead of buying the power hungry CPUs if they don't need them.
Because a PC is meant to multi-purpose. Sometimes you need a power-hungry CPU, and sometimes you don't. Most people don't have so many computers around (as an IT person I do, and even I find it gets cluttered and annoying at times), so having machines of multiple power would be less convenient than having a machine that scales better to the task(s) at hand.
No, they also found a shrunken heart which they attribute to the owner being either a politician/lawyer.
The brain they believe may have belonged to a early **professional athlete, and it's lasted for quite a long time because it apparently wasn't used much :-)
**disclaimer: Humor intended, I actually know some fairly smart athletes
When I have something that I need to run for a longer period of time (long download, etc) I just run it on one of my low-power boxes. Running a via C7, they're always on, and they use a *max* of 45-60W power (that's as much as the brick can supply) for everything including the drives, etc. Generally, they use a lot less than that (significiantly less than a lightbulb)
Now I've seen that modern PC's can go into advanced sleep modes to conserve power, and that a lot of CPU's can throttle to save a certain amount of juice as well (anyone have a page with stats on the power-usage for different ratios), but is there an intermediary step? How about having a secondary CPU/core which low power-consumption, but enough to run basic tasks such as downloading stuff, etc.
When your computer isn't being actively used, allow the user to switch to "low profile" mode where the main CPU, GPU, various peripherals, (user-selectable) etc power down and then re-activate when they're actually needed by the user.
Seriously, having a 2GHZ*quad-core machine with 4GB of RAM and a kickass graphics card is great, but there's not much call for it in the off-hours when you only need the equivalent of a P3-900Mhz or less for your downloads.
What lame-brain dummy would think that either :-( or ;-) are trademarkable symbols
Actually, I think that the lame-brain in this case is not the "businessman" (although extortionist might be a better term), but the idiot who actually granted the application...
There are several entities involved with the proliferation and development of Linux and its components. One of the more notable examples is Red Hat.
Here are some contributors to debian
One could think of it being like: many people put together computers. Some people build them at home, while large companies such as Dell sell by volume. They have a large array of companies supplying parts and components, and you can't really say that one is more valuable than the other.
Keep one flashlight in the charger, and one at-the-ready. That'll keep them Grues away, until a flashlight breaks, of course.
I'm not sure that permanence would be relevant.
Section 6 "with the intent to permanently deprive the other of it" is sufficiently flexible to include situations where the property is later returned.
It seems to me that what they're calling "confiscation" would also amount to theft if brought up in the courts.
Just out of curiosity, who are you referring to "Canadians." These groups aren't representative, they're just a SIG with currently high visibility and low intelligence.
They never required that for me when I signed up for AdSense. Maybe it only applies to certain countries...
I think there's already a precedent for the age at the time a picture is taken or a person is depicted.
For example, distributing a naked picture taken today of a girl that's 20: not legal
Distributing a naked picture (or portrait depiction, unless it's "art") of the same girl, but taken/drawn when she was 13: not legal, even if she's over 18 now...
I suppose a lot of it depends on what you buy too. One example would be when I lived in a small town for awhile (literally a town, it wasn't big enough to qualify as a city).
They used to have an excellent butcher/corner-store. You could get good quality meat at an incredible price, and the produce was pretty good too. The place was a short walk from my home, so in the summer I used to walk down, pick up fresh meat, and cook a damn good dinner. The prices might have been a bit more than low-quality meat, but it was still very affordable and very good.
Within an period of about two years after I left, an Extra-Foods (Loblaws) and WalMart moved in. I had planned to drop through town specifically to visit my favorite butcher but unfortunately they're now out of business and have closed. I'm guessing that their meat was still selling, but sales of other items including vegetables/etc couldn't compete with the big boys on price. Sad... I've yet to find a place with a souvlaki-steaks that were quite as good.
Most of the ones I know are local, so they wouldn't mean much to you. You might want to check out some of the smaller cities/towns in BC, Canada though if you're really interested as opposed to just playing Devil's Advocate.
Drugs legalized + government taxes on sales. As they become more commonplace, the profit involved with the current sellers will decrease (potential profit and risk often run together), and legal industries will be created, along with tax revenue, etc.
Except the consumer gets screwed by this - essentially it's a way to make price comparison more difficult
Ah yes, but an alternate syndrome is where a big chain store busts into town, sells at cut-throat margins and drives the local stores out, then jack prices back up after all the competition has failed or fled.
That's not good for the consumer either, but it's been known to happen fairly often.
Was this girl actually served papers? Is there some sort of precedent that exists for if you're unable to make the court date due to unexpected/unavoidable causes, for example if you're served while in a coma, or you're served, hit by a bus, and then unable to make court (due to being in a coma, etc).
In this case it looks like she may have just disregarded the legal paperwork while dealing with health issues... TFA is a little light on details in that regard as all it talks about it how poor she is and unable to pay the fees due to her condition.
Why not just license his designs?
I dunno. Losing an eye and having it replaced (in the future) with a bionic implant having telescoping vision and infrared would beat a synthesized voice... although I'd imagine that if you could tweak your own software to produce any voice you want it could be fun.
Of course, at this point neither of these technologies are quite so well developed yet.
I doubt that trash collectors or bricklayers could afford the procedures to be "suspended" though, at least not for awhile. I doubt the class that could afford it would be find such jobs desirable either.
Of course, if one had enough cash and banked money in a long-term decent-yield savings account, you might not need to work after being reanimated. "freezout kids", anyone?