Seriously folks the dept of labor only represents employers not employees. They WILL NOT go after an employer for not following the Fair Labor Standards Act. They only ASSIST employers in being COMPLIANT (this is there stated policy).
Incorrect: I can't speak for all states, but back in the late 80s I received an overtime settlement that the NJ Dept. of Labor nudged my former employer into. This was after I had already left the company - I received a check and explanatory letter in the mail.
The company had "promoted" several hourly employees to salaried positions, without an increase in pay to compensate for the unpaid expected additional hours. In effect, adding unpaid overtime - they frown on that. Someone complained to NJ Dept of Labor, they sent somebody out to review the payroll & HR records. Dept of Labor estimated the unpaid salary, and forced the employer to compensate us.
No lawsuit was involved.
So it's worth a try - believe it or not, some government agencies do try to ensure employees are treated according to the law. If your state's Dept of Labor isn't helpful, you can still consider a lawsuit, but the gov't may proceed themselves.
Great example! A vivid (if slightly damaging) real-world example.
It's been a while since I learned about CRT deflection coils, and demonstrated my new-found knowledge to my siblings by making pretty patterns with a magnet held up to my parent's TV. I still remember the horror when I removed the magnet and the wild colors didn't go away...
And that's why you don't fix it with another magnet: you buy/beg/borrow/steal or build a degaussing coil and demagnetize it. Which may take a few tries if you've never done it before.
On a related note: one of our vehicles is a Camaro, with rather low ground clearance compared to a full-size SUV. Yet I'm regularly amused (and annoyed) when I'm behind an SUV in a parking lot going over the speed bumps even more gingerly than I am. They should be barreling right over them.
Same thing when there's any puddle near the edge of the road; puddles I splash right through, they creep around, swerving out of their lane to avoid a wet tire.
Auto-insurance companies (as well as trucking insurers) already do this for hardware: if your car is "totalled" in an accident, they pay you the insured value, then try to sell the mangled car (or trucking cargo) either whole or in parts to recoup what they just paid.
So if regulations eased up to allow it: upon your untimely demise, your life-insurance company would payoff your insured amount, say $250,000, then sell off your salvageable organs to offset their cost.
On the upside, more available parts, and cheaper life-insurance rates!
Usually if you're close to having a 100% functional, accessible web site then some lunatic will decide to make something needlessly depend on javascript. Wikis and formal procedures don't help in that situation, especially when it's been done by an individual intent on pissing everyone else off. Don't you just love "team players"?
Wouldn't a formal procedure that specifies "No required functionality dependent upon javascript" help in that situation? Preferably fleshed out to include "or Flash" as well.
Although you blow-off the Imperial gallon / US gallon difference, do the math: multiply the average US MPG you quote by 1.2: you get 25.2 MPG.
Surprise! US vehicles aren't "struggling" to reach 25 MPG, they're already slightly over it in Imperial gallons. And I believe the figure you're quoting is for vehicles (cars & trucks). The average is so low mainly due to folks buying trucks / SUVs, and the added weight of safety standards (compared to a few decades ago).
The engineering's fine; it's the buyer's choices that affect the average.
The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
Hard to buy that the company would support anything open for free use after hearing that from its CEO.
Actually sounds exactly what someone pushing for public-domain or BSD-style licensing would say... obviously not what MS uses for it's own products, but that statement has no conflict with promoting free (note the little "l") use of software.
Setup a UNIXy box (Linux/BSD/etc.) running Apache. Add the Apache::MP3 module. Copy or link your song files where Apache::MP3 can find them. Edit your client hosts files to include your music server under the hostname "music". Fire up a Web browser & enjoy your music files and browser-based playlists.
Even cranky security-conscious OpenBSD has packages to make this easy. If you have a spare box, I'd suggest something in the 500-MHz speed range or faster (although I used an old P-Pro 180 for this for several years). If you like, share the files using Samba as well.
If you already have a home Web-server, setup a name-based virtual host to distinguish it from your "real" site.
If there are two standards, how can they be called standards?
That's right - who could possibly need more than one standard?
Just as there's only one graphics-file format... GIF! I mean bitmap... or was that JPEG? Oh, PNG - that's the one! Except for the nuts using TIFF or RAW...
Sorry, you're absolutely wrong. If the IRS decides you owe them money, they can simply freeze your account without notice. At least, they could in the past - I had it happen about 10 years ago, in a dispute over claiming my children as dependents. Went to the bank one payday, ATM card didn't work. Went to the teller - got treated like a criminal and shooed out of the bank. Resolved the issue (I thought), had it happen again, 60 days later.
The IRS never admitted they were wrong, but they did "slightly adjust" the collection amount; from $1400 to $12. By that point, I had spent a year trying to straighten things out, so - I paid the $12.
Interesting comparison: your mention mileage of about 18-19MPG from your 1988 Mazda RX-7. My wife's car is a 2000 Chevy Camaro Z28 convertible: larger car, more weight, 5.7L V8, twice the HP, probably 3X the torque, and it's an automatic. Yet our normal aggressive driving yields 20-21MPG: higher than your RX-7.
So that Mustang may look like it's going to eat your car, but surprisingly, it may get better mileage. Appearances can be deceiving.
(not to slight the RX-7 - I like various versions of it, and have watched them racing. Amazingly tiny engines)
Let's try an experiment shall we? Go buy or rent a Ford Mustang V8, fill up the tank and drive from stop light to stop light by "flooring it" until it is empty. Then go calculate your fuel mileage and compare it what it says on the EPA rating.
The point is, you don't have to wait 8 hours for recharge with a gasoline vehicle... just refill and continue. To quote you:
I'm gonna take a wild guess here and assume you are American...
Yes, 20-21 MPG is good for a 300+HP convertible, that can perform well at a dragstrip, autocross course (hampered by the automatic & it's size), in highway driving, and climbing mountain roads (well, East Coast mountains, the Appalachians). The power/weight ratio was unbeatable at it's price. A few more vehicles now have that HP level, but most don't have the abundant low-end torque that means my wife can easily drive the car.
I've driven friend's hopped-up musclecars (late 60's / 70's). The recent LS1-engined cars have better performance, vastly better handling, run smoother / more reliably, and - produce very low emissions.
Consider it has a large V8, and gets mileage wihtin a hair of most 4-cylinder sporty cars. I'd never liked Camaros, but was looking for a sturdy car that would last, preferably with a torquey engine (less RPMs ~= longevity). I was impressed by the Camaro.
So yes, that's good mileage, for the type of performance it has. Feel free to point out another 4-passenger convertible with equal/better performance, and better mileage. Bad mileage for a Prius, but - I can pass a tractor-trailer with ease.
Actually, even with the V8, the recent Camaro/Firebird get decent mileage. Ours is a 2000 Camaro Z28 (not the SS), only 305HP. Daily mileage about 20-21MPG. Highway driving, gets 24-25, but in smooth, medium-speed driving, we've hit 26 (cruising behind a loaded U-Haul for a few hours at 65).
That's 305HP, 24-25MPG, with an automatic. In the convertible version (heavier than the hardtop). Drive conservatively in a hardtop, with the 6-speed manual, you can beat that. But I never can drive conservatively with the 6-speed cars...
By comparison: I drove a 1995 Pontiac Sunfire GT for several years. Half the horspower / torque, about 800-lbs less weight. It got slightly better mileage. Slightly. But the V8's way more fun.
There may be odd side effects though: the riceboy scene may mutate.
Imagine the amount of neon you can light up with a Prius battery / generator & 500V inverter available...
Picture a "riced" hybrid, with dual battery cables snaking across the hood, to showcase it's awesome aftermarket Monster Cables for lownoise acceleration...
Envision the fires caused by "hotrodded" hybrids, when the auxilary batteries strapped to the roof (power in reserve!) burst into flame at a stoplight...
You just never know. Ricing may mutate, but not disappear. Heck, I've seen people with lowered / wide-wheel minivans!
Have you driven one? My wife & I test-drove one a few years ago. I was impressed with it's handling & braking, especially considering it's height. Not a sports-car, but reasonably peppy; probably slower fully loaded. "Ugly" is very subjective:) Inefficient: not compared to the minivans it's a smaller replacement for (that was my purpose, anyway; replacing an actual "real van"). PT is very adaptable for it's size. Didn't get one, but liked it more than I expected.
IANACS (I Am Not A Climate Scientist), but while there are areaa w/ warming trends, there are also some odd cooling trends.
Interesting quote from a link below:
Since 1940, however, the Greenland coastal stations data have undergone predominantly a cooling trend. At the summit of the Greenland ice sheet the summer average temperature has decreased at the rate of 2.2 C per decade since the beginning of the measurements in 1987.
the Antarctic is not warming and there is nothing in the models that distinguish the temperature trends they predict in the Arctic from those in the Antarctic.
Check out the Reason article - some knowledgeable people have doubts about global warming, or question it's magnitude. It's bizarre that one pole is warming, the other is cooling...
laptops output very strong electromagnetic fields. Having a laptop on your lap is like sitting ontop of a television.
Actually, I'd expect a laptop to have much weaker electromagnetic fields than a television (at least, a TV with a picture-tube). Laptops run at low voltage, with weak magnets. TVs run transformers producing high voltage, plus the main power transformer, plus static on the tube, plus the deflection coils on the CRT bouncing the electron-beam around. A speaker or two, a power-cord. So don't store your archival videtapes on the top!
Odd warming and cooling trends, since 1917, warm in 1938, cooling down after 1940, warming back up again (maybe just returning to normal?) One pole's temperature moving the opposite of the other.
There was an episode of CSI:Miami where the pivotal piece of identifying evidence was: the front Florida license plate on a car, in a blurry surveillance. It was enhanced & used to track down the killer (I think it was a murder).
My wife was *amazingly* pissed-off when we watched that episode. Why?
Florida only issues a single license plate, which gets attached to the *rear* of the car. No front tag. We're Floridians - we should know.
If you're going to set a show somewhere, try to get the details right.
Nonsense! A GUI is a *great* way to organize a few dozen xterms.:-)
I think you were kidding, but... I was working with mixed DOS & UNIX boxes, from a PC desktop, when Win3.1 came out.
My first reaction was "Wow, a great way to run programs at half-speed!" After trying it out for a week, I loved it: I could run a DOS app, a couple terminal windows to the UNIX boxes, and keep a Carbon Copy (PC remote-control over 2400-baud dialup) session going to troubleshoot a client. Stuck with console apps to avoid X overhead (we were running UNIX on Intel PCs - we needed every bit of resource we could get!)
Maybe these numbers are wrong, if so perhaps someone can find a better reference.
I didn't need to go further than your own reference...
The site describes it's count as including basically every death occurring during the occupation. Not "civilians killed by the US forces".
If you start reading through their database, you'll notice it includes victims of car-bombings (I don't think the US forces are using car-bombs), a beheaded policeman (not a civilian, not beheaded by US), and people kidnapped / tortured / killed by terrorists. It also includes attacks ON US forces, which killed civilians.
The site database pages include the following:
In the current occupation phase the database includes all deaths which the Occupying Authority has a binding responsibility to prevent under the Geneva Conventions and Hague Regulations. This includes civilian deaths resulting from the breakdown in law and order, and deaths due to inadequate health care or sanitation.
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Incorrect: I can't speak for all states, but back in the late 80s I received an overtime settlement that the NJ Dept. of Labor nudged my former employer into. This was after I had already left the company - I received a check and explanatory letter in the mail.
The company had "promoted" several hourly employees to salaried positions, without an increase in pay to compensate for the unpaid expected additional hours. In effect, adding unpaid overtime - they frown on that. Someone complained to NJ Dept of Labor, they sent somebody out to review the payroll & HR records. Dept of Labor estimated the unpaid salary, and forced the employer to compensate us.
No lawsuit was involved.
So it's worth a try - believe it or not, some government agencies do try to ensure employees are treated according to the law. If your state's Dept of Labor isn't helpful, you can still consider a lawsuit, but the gov't may proceed themselves.
Great example! A vivid (if slightly damaging) real-world example.
It's been a while since I learned about CRT deflection coils, and demonstrated my new-found knowledge to my siblings by making pretty patterns with a magnet held up to my parent's TV. I still remember the horror when I removed the magnet and the wild colors didn't go away...
And that's why you don't fix it with another magnet: you buy/beg/borrow/steal or build a degaussing coil and demagnetize it. Which may take a few tries if you've never done it before.
On a related note: one of our vehicles is a Camaro, with rather low ground clearance compared to a full-size SUV. Yet I'm regularly amused (and annoyed) when I'm behind an SUV in a parking lot going over the speed bumps even more gingerly than I am. They should be barreling right over them.
Same thing when there's any puddle near the edge of the road; puddles I splash right through, they creep around, swerving out of their lane to avoid a wet tire.
Amusing.
Auto-insurance companies (as well as trucking insurers) already do this for hardware: if your car is "totalled" in an accident, they pay you the insured value, then try to sell the mangled car (or trucking cargo) either whole or in parts to recoup what they just paid.
So if regulations eased up to allow it: upon your untimely demise, your life-insurance company would payoff your insured amount, say $250,000, then sell off your salvageable organs to offset their cost.
On the upside, more available parts, and cheaper life-insurance rates!
Can you reconcile these 2 statements from your post:
Sounds to me like you don't want to be liable for your own actions.
Why should someone else have their life restricted, to protect you from your mistakes?
The review you linked to included the following harsh criticisms:
...
"Add in its thorough feature set and strong application performance, and you would have a winning machine--but for the price. "
"Like its sports car namesake, the Acer Ferrari 5000 comes fully loaded; "
"That price is pretty steep for a laptop of this size, but it does include some high-end components: "
"Unless you're planning to use your laptop for heavy-duty graphics work, the Ferrari should provide smokin' performance. "
"The bottom line: We like almost everything about the Acer Ferrari 5000, except for the price."
Sure sounds like they thought it was high-end.
Wouldn't a formal procedure that specifies "No required functionality dependent upon javascript" help in that situation? Preferably fleshed out to include "or Flash" as well.
Although you blow-off the Imperial gallon / US gallon difference, do the math: multiply the average US MPG you quote by 1.2: you get 25.2 MPG.
Surprise! US vehicles aren't "struggling" to reach 25 MPG, they're already slightly over it in Imperial gallons. And I believe the figure you're quoting is for vehicles (cars & trucks). The average is so low mainly due to folks buying trucks / SUVs, and the added weight of safety standards (compared to a few decades ago).
The engineering's fine; it's the buyer's choices that affect the average.
I say we dust off, ssh in and dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Actually sounds exactly what someone pushing for public-domain or BSD-style licensing would say... obviously not what MS uses for it's own products, but that statement has no conflict with promoting free (note the little "l") use of software.
Setup a UNIXy box (Linux/BSD/etc.) running Apache.
Add the Apache::MP3 module.
Copy or link your song files where Apache::MP3 can find them.
Edit your client hosts files to include your music server under the hostname "music".
Fire up a Web browser & enjoy your music files and browser-based playlists.
Even cranky security-conscious OpenBSD has packages to make this easy. If you have a spare box, I'd suggest something in the 500-MHz speed range or faster (although I used an old P-Pro 180 for this for several years). If you like, share the files using Samba as well.
If you already have a home Web-server, setup a name-based virtual host to distinguish it from your "real" site.
That's right - who could possibly need more than one standard?
Just as there's only one graphics-file format... GIF! I mean bitmap... or was that JPEG? Oh, PNG - that's the one! Except for the nuts using TIFF or RAW...
Sorry, you're absolutely wrong. If the IRS decides you owe them money, they can simply freeze your account without notice. At least, they could in the past - I had it happen about 10 years ago, in a dispute over claiming my children as dependents. Went to the bank one payday, ATM card didn't work. Went to the teller - got treated like a criminal and shooed out of the bank. Resolved the issue (I thought), had it happen again, 60 days later.
The IRS never admitted they were wrong, but they did "slightly adjust" the collection amount; from $1400 to $12. By that point, I had spent a year trying to straighten things out, so - I paid the $12.
Interesting comparison: your mention mileage of about 18-19MPG from your 1988 Mazda RX-7. My wife's car is a 2000 Chevy Camaro Z28 convertible: larger car, more weight, 5.7L V8, twice the HP, probably 3X the torque, and it's an automatic. Yet our normal aggressive driving yields 20-21MPG: higher than your RX-7.
So that Mustang may look like it's going to eat your car, but surprisingly, it may get better mileage. Appearances can be deceiving.
(not to slight the RX-7 - I like various versions of it, and have watched them racing. Amazingly tiny engines)
The point is, you don't have to wait 8 hours for recharge with a gasoline vehicle... just refill and continue.
To quote you:
Yes, 20-21 MPG is good for a 300+HP convertible, that can perform well at a dragstrip, autocross course (hampered by the automatic & it's size), in highway driving, and climbing mountain roads (well, East Coast mountains, the Appalachians). The power/weight ratio was unbeatable at it's price. A few more vehicles now have that HP level, but most don't have the abundant low-end torque that means my wife can easily drive the car.
I've driven friend's hopped-up musclecars (late 60's / 70's). The recent LS1-engined cars have better performance, vastly better handling, run smoother / more reliably, and - produce very low emissions.
Consider it has a large V8, and gets mileage wihtin a hair of most 4-cylinder sporty cars. I'd never liked Camaros, but was looking for a sturdy car that would last, preferably with a torquey engine (less RPMs ~= longevity). I was impressed by the Camaro.
So yes, that's good mileage, for the type of performance it has. Feel free to point out another 4-passenger convertible with equal/better performance, and better mileage. Bad mileage for a Prius, but - I can pass a tractor-trailer with ease.
Actually, even with the V8, the recent Camaro/Firebird get decent mileage. Ours is a 2000 Camaro Z28 (not the SS), only 305HP. Daily mileage about 20-21MPG. Highway driving, gets 24-25, but in smooth, medium-speed driving, we've hit 26 (cruising behind a loaded U-Haul for a few hours at 65).
That's 305HP, 24-25MPG, with an automatic. In the convertible version (heavier than the hardtop). Drive conservatively in a hardtop, with the 6-speed manual, you can beat that. But I never can drive conservatively with the 6-speed cars...
By comparison: I drove a 1995 Pontiac Sunfire GT for several years. Half the horspower / torque, about 800-lbs less weight. It got slightly better mileage. Slightly. But the V8's way more fun.
There may be odd side effects though: the riceboy scene may mutate.
Imagine the amount of neon you can light up with a Prius battery / generator & 500V inverter available...
Picture a "riced" hybrid, with dual battery cables snaking across the hood, to showcase it's awesome aftermarket Monster Cables for lownoise acceleration...
Envision the fires caused by "hotrodded" hybrids, when the auxilary batteries strapped to the roof (power in reserve!) burst into flame at a stoplight...
You just never know. Ricing may mutate, but not disappear. Heck, I've seen people with lowered / wide-wheel minivans!
Have you driven one? My wife & I test-drove one a few years ago. I was impressed with it's handling & braking, especially considering it's height. Not a sports-car, but reasonably peppy; probably slower fully loaded. "Ugly" is very subjective :) Inefficient: not compared to the minivans it's a smaller replacement for (that was my purpose, anyway; replacing an actual "real van"). PT is very adaptable for it's size. Didn't get one, but liked it more than I expected.
IANACS (I Am Not A Climate Scientist), but while there are areaa w/ warming trends, there are also some odd cooling trends. Interesting quote from a link below:
Some links:
Fun quote from a actual MIT climatologist, Richard S. Lindzen :
Check out the Reason article - some knowledgeable people have doubts about global warming, or question it's magnitude. It's bizarre that one pole is warming, the other is cooling...My favorite quote from the Reason article:
Actually, I'd expect a laptop to have much weaker electromagnetic fields than a television (at least, a TV with a picture-tube). Laptops run at low voltage, with weak magnets. TVs run transformers producing high voltage, plus the main power transformer, plus static on the tube, plus the deflection coils on the CRT bouncing the electron-beam around. A speaker or two, a power-cord. So don't store your archival videtapes on the top!
Nice troll, though.
Interesting article about conflicting / confusing global temperature data, mainly related to the poles. Things aren't as clear as you may think:
"If you look at the long term records, the Arctic has been as warm or warmer than it is today," says Christy. He cites temperature data from the Hadley Centre in the UK showing that from 70 degrees north latitude to the pole, the warmest years on record in the Arctic were 1937 and 1938.Odd warming and cooling trends, since 1917, warm in 1938, cooling down after 1940, warming back up again (maybe just returning to normal?) One pole's temperature moving the opposite of the other.
There was an episode of CSI:Miami where the pivotal piece of identifying evidence was: the front Florida license plate on a car, in a blurry surveillance. It was enhanced & used to track down the killer (I think it was a murder).
My wife was *amazingly* pissed-off when we watched that episode. Why?
Florida only issues a single license plate, which gets attached to the *rear* of the car. No front tag. We're Floridians - we should know.
If you're going to set a show somewhere, try to get the details right.
I think you were kidding, but... I was working with mixed DOS & UNIX boxes, from a PC desktop, when Win3.1 came out.
My first reaction was "Wow, a great way to run programs at half-speed!" After trying it out for a week, I loved it: I could run a DOS app, a couple terminal windows to the UNIX boxes, and keep a Carbon Copy (PC remote-control over 2400-baud dialup) session going to troubleshoot a client. Stuck with console apps to avoid X overhead (we were running UNIX on Intel PCs - we needed every bit of resource we could get!)
I didn't need to go further than your own reference...
The site describes it's count as including basically every death occurring during the occupation. Not "civilians killed by the US forces".
If you start reading through their database, you'll notice it includes victims of car-bombings (I don't think the US forces are using car-bombs), a beheaded policeman (not a civilian, not beheaded by US), and people kidnapped / tortured / killed by terrorists. It also includes attacks ON US forces, which killed civilians.
The site database pages include the following: