Guardsmark, LLC, its officers, agents, suc-cessors, and assigns, shall
1. Cease and desist from
(a) Maintaining or enforcing a handbook provision prohibit-ing employees from registering complaints regarding their wages, hours, or conditions of employment with Guardsmarks' clients.
It's odd that the order in the linked ruling you supplied doesn't match what you've quoted. The ruling you linked states that Guarsmark will:
1. Cease and desist from
(a) Maintaining or enforcing its handbook provisions prohibiting employees from registering complaints regarding their wages, hours or conditions of employment with Guardsmark's clients and from soliciting and distributing literature during off-duty time while in uniform.
(b) In any like or related manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed them by Section 7 of the Act.
It's worth noting that the earlier ruling maintaining the no solication-in-uniform rule was reversed.
It's also worth noting the in-uniform qualifier was made only in the solicitation paragraph, and not in the fraternization paragraph, and seems to have been interpreted as distinct in the discussion. So the question of whether the fraternization was in uniform is irrelevant, not critical and key.
Back during the Cold War, anyone who owned a typewriter was required to submit a typing sample to the government.
I bought one manual and two electric typewriters during the cold war, and was never asked for a sample. You probably have in mind the 50s, and not the late 70s and 80s, but while I have no first hand knowledge, I don't think they went so far as to get a sample from everyone with a typewriter. Obtaining a sample was an evidentiary technique used against someone who was already charged or suspected, however.
Just this sort of evidence was famously used to convict Alger Hiss of perjury, in connection with his espionage trial, which is very relevant to your last point. While Alger Hiss's actual innocence is somewhat controversial (and maybe unlikely), it is pretty clear that the government fabricated a typewriter to match the type on the documents in question (and went on to introduce the fabricated typewriter as Hiss's during the trial). The mere ability of the government to claim to be able to able to match a document with its source could, perhaps, lend itself to similar abuses in the future.
They're implying that when the lawyers queried the old versions, that somehow the wayback machine really grabbed the copies old copies straight from Healthcare Advocates' website.
For one, most schools are funded through property taxes, so if property values do not keep up with inflation (or assessments are not updated every year), then the school will effectively be getting less money.
Actually, it's usually not the case that a jurisdiction will get less revenue from property taxation if assessed valuations go down. Generally, the property tax rate is determined by dividing the levy by the total taxable assessed valuation in the tax jurisdication. The levy is basically the amount the jurisdiction intends to raise.
The tax rate goes up if assessments go down, but the levy (the total amount of revenue raised) stays the same, unless it's changed through the political process.
Columbus calculated the earth's size at about 1/4th the correct size.
Actually, Columbus estimated the earth's circumference at about 18,000 miles, rather than the correct 25,000 miles, and so underestimated by about 25%. That's very different from estimating the size at 1/4 the correct size. As the link indicates, he didn't pull the number out of the air, either, but was obviously going with numbers that were most favorable to his proposal. He may have thought of it as fudging the numbers a bit. The real figures would have suggested that the plan was commercially impractical (because Asia would be closer going east), but would not made quite as dramatic difference to the risks involved that you imply.
It should be noted that the article doesn't say the Barrons were the first musicians to compose electronic music, just that they were electronic music pioneers, and that Forbidden Planet was the first film to feature an all-electronic score. In fact, the article links to an earlier NPR piece about the invention of the trautonium in 1929, an electronic instrument that clearly predates the Barrons.
He will get out. See, now, if this was a real fascist country, do you think anything could save him from the government?
I didn't claim this was a fascist country, and I'm not even sure he should get out. I'm merely pointing out that as a practical matter, there's no reason to conclude that US citizens can't be
designated enemy combatants.
I'd be in a better position to have an opinion on whether he should be released if he had been charged with a crime and information were available on the evidence against him, although I'd still expect a jury to decide. I find it hard to see this situation as a cause for optimism. Padilla won't be present at this hearing, presumably because as an enemy combatant he has no right to meet with his attorney or face his accusers. Even if everything goes as you anticipate, he'll have been denied his right to a speedy trial.
Tell that to Jose Padilla, who was designated an enemy combatant in 2002 and has yet to be charged with anything. Well, as the article points out, the court system may coincidently do something about that today, but if I were Jose, I wouldn't be packing my bags.
The article talks about him reading bits back of an etched piece of glass - which is pretty far away from a modern CD or DVD. . .. The article talks about him reading bits back of an etched piece of glass - which is pretty far away from a modern CD or DVD.
The technical merits of his invention are irrelevant to his legal claim. The intellectual property of his works-for-hire would belong to his employer, unless he had a contract specifying otherwise, which would be extremely unlikely, and which the article suggest was not the case. The article establishes that his employer sold those rights, so neither he nor his employee had any rights to the invention at the time things got interesting.
I don't think he could have found a pro bono attorney to help him, given that he sold his rights to the invention when he accepted his paycheck.
I see very few legal strategies that could work here, especially if the case went to a jury.
Jury nullification aside, EvilCo could argue that the consideration for its Super Useful Adware is the consumer's agreement to 1) view the ads and 2) not remove their adware from the machine. In that case, the software vendor providing a removal tool would be interfering with EvilCo's business relationship with the consumer. I'd say that line of argument has a shot.
Any chance that no physical exercise and a shitty diet might cause glacoma, much like diabetes?
The study attempted to take these factors into account. From the article:
Although the aetiology of OAG remains unclear, numerous potential risk factors have been identified in addition to ocular hypertension, including certain diseases and lifestyle related conditions: vasospasm,3 migraine,4 tobacco smoking,5
high blood viscosity,6 sleep apnea syndrome,7 hypertension,5 psychological disturbance,8 and myopia.9 We postulated that heavy computer use may influence some of the risk factors for OAG, such as the lifestyle and the physical and psychological status, leading to an increased risk of glaucoma.
Oddly enough, they say that "Body mass index (BMI) showed a borderline inverse association with FDT-VFA," while "heavy computer users with refractive errors showed a significant association with FDT-VFA, but those without
refractive errors did not have an increased risk of FDT-VFA." My interpretation of this is that since I'm extremely myopic, I need to put on a few pounds to compensate.
Let's get this straight: The Attorney General of the United States needs to hand write his letter of resignation so it won't be compromised in transmission to the President of the United States ?? Isn't that just a little bit scary?
You may be kidding, but I think what Ashcroft meant was that he didn't have the letter typed up by an administrative assistant, who might leak the information. The fact that the alternative was to handwrite the letter suggests that he doesn't know how to type a document into word processing software and print it out, or in any case is disinclined to do so. I don't know whether it's scary, but probably telling.
When workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine yesterday, each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With the other two machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365 votes.
I'm not sure I understand this. I'm guessing they actually got the number by subtracting the count for Kerry, the count 3rd party presidential candidates, and the count for no presidential vote from the known number of total voters. But doesn't the Bush number indicate that any results from this machine can't be trusted?
It's also possible they had a way on to the island, but not off, once the resources contraints began. Look at the case of Easter Island, whose inhabitants had the technology to travel hundreds of miles from Polynesia, but so thoroughly depleted their resources that they could no longer build boats to leave once the problems began.
Come on, now, when the fearful flyer finally gets on the plane, everyone expects he'll land safe and sound and think to himself, "Why didn't I do that sooner." You probably wouldn't buy lottery tickets if you knew you were on death's door and wouldn't live to benefit from them, so I think there's presumably some expectation you'll live to enjoy your winnings (although at age 98, I suppose you shouldn't be too surprised if you don't). And most people, particularly those of the female persuasion, expect their weddings to be some storybook affair, rightly or wrongly, which rain might interfer with. So I still contend that while it's not dramatic irony, it meets the dictionary definition.
I don't know what's up with the fly in the chardonnay thing, I'll admit, although I suppose most glasses of chardonnay are black fly-free.
Can't you write in Nader? As a practical matter, not being on the ballot in your state means that Nader will get very few votes there, but since he probably would not have carried the state anyway, I'm not sure why that should make a difference to you. Just asking...
Monopoly teaches kids that "he who has the most 'toys', wins"
That's almost it, but I think Monopoly teaches kids that those who accumulate great amounts of property will inevitably charge monopoly rents, unfairly driving up prices and sending others to the poorhouse. Driving home this point was the original intent of the game, and it's still pretty clear. The message is muddled because this casts the winner as the bad guy, which is counter-intuitive.
But the contradiction might inspire thoughtful reflection, while gambling to provide sustenance for your pet would hopefully have no useful real world analogues.
The article says Democrats are mobilizing and "lining up" lawyers, but doesn't say anything about hiring them. It does say that they're training thousands of volunteers. That would explain why Kerry is expecting more bang for the buck.
Also, I believe the plan is for the volunteer attorneys to intervene or document instances where people are excluded from the polls. Democrats believe that more voters at the polls will favor them (that's the conventional wisdom). Assuming Repulicans also believe this, they're not likely to want to make the same effort to get people into the polling place, but it would be embarrassing to make an obvious effort to exclude people on election day.
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It's odd that the order in the linked ruling you supplied doesn't match what you've quoted. The ruling you linked states that Guarsmark will:
It's worth noting that the earlier ruling maintaining the no solication-in-uniform rule was reversed.
It's also worth noting the in-uniform qualifier was made only in the solicitation paragraph, and not in the fraternization paragraph, and seems to have been interpreted as distinct in the discussion. So the question of whether the fraternization was in uniform is irrelevant, not critical and key.
Just this sort of evidence was famously used to convict Alger Hiss of perjury, in connection with his espionage trial, which is very relevant to your last point. While Alger Hiss's actual innocence is somewhat controversial (and maybe unlikely), it is pretty clear that the government fabricated a typewriter to match the type on the documents in question (and went on to introduce the fabricated typewriter as Hiss's during the trial). The mere ability of the government to claim to be able to able to match a document with its source could, perhaps, lend itself to similar abuses in the future.
Tetzchner would not be the first. Benoit Lecomte swam the Atlantic in 1998.
The tax rate goes up if assessments go down, but the levy (the total amount of revenue raised) stays the same, unless it's changed through the political process.
It should be noted that the article doesn't say the Barrons were the first musicians to compose electronic music, just that they were electronic music pioneers, and that Forbidden Planet was the first film to feature an all-electronic score. In fact, the article links to an earlier NPR piece about the invention of the trautonium in 1929, an electronic instrument that clearly predates the Barrons.
I'd be in a better position to have an opinion on whether he should be released if he had been charged with a crime and information were available on the evidence against him, although I'd still expect a jury to decide. I find it hard to see this situation as a cause for optimism. Padilla won't be present at this hearing, presumably because as an enemy combatant he has no right to meet with his attorney or face his accusers. Even if everything goes as you anticipate, he'll have been denied his right to a speedy trial.
Tell that to Jose Padilla, who was designated an enemy combatant in 2002 and has yet to be charged with anything. Well, as the article points out, the court system may coincidently do something about that today, but if I were Jose, I wouldn't be packing my bags.
I don't think he could have found a pro bono attorney to help him, given that he sold his rights to the invention when he accepted his paycheck.
It's also possible they had a way on to the island, but not off, once the resources contraints began. Look at the case of Easter Island, whose inhabitants had the technology to travel hundreds of miles from Polynesia, but so thoroughly depleted their resources that they could no longer build boats to leave once the problems began.
There's no need to be a creationist to believe that we are all distant relatives, , if you go back far enough.
I don't know what's up with the fly in the chardonnay thing, I'll admit, although I suppose most glasses of chardonnay are black fly-free.
Can't you write in Nader? As a practical matter, not being on the ballot in your state means that Nader will get very few votes there, but since he probably would not have carried the state anyway, I'm not sure why that should make a difference to you. Just asking...
But the contradiction might inspire thoughtful reflection, while gambling to provide sustenance for your pet would hopefully have no useful real world analogues.
Also, I believe the plan is for the volunteer attorneys to intervene or document instances where people are excluded from the polls. Democrats believe that more voters at the polls will favor them (that's the conventional wisdom). Assuming Repulicans also believe this, they're not likely to want to make the same effort to get people into the polling place, but it would be embarrassing to make an obvious effort to exclude people on election day.