Dont jump from "There used to be ice, now there isn't." to "We did it"
He didn't. He said it wasn't natural. If it wasn't natural, it must be supernatural. If we did it, it would be natural.
Well, maybe it is just me, but 500 times the size of the great pyramid of giza just doesn't seem like a huge amount to me when we're talking about something huge like an ice shelf. We're talking a chunk of ice that is about 1 cubic kilometer. That's less than 1 billionth of the Earth's water.
Apparently the part that is unclear is the part that says you have the right to free speech. That seems pretty clear to me. Why we should infer that we should be able to block a public thoroughfare in order to practice that right is beyond me. Just because one person decides to exercise a right doesn't mean that 1,000 other people all of a sudden lose their rights.
Nowhere in the first amendment does it say that you cannot be charged a fee for holding a public event or that you cannot be required to have a permit in order to hold such an event. All that you are guaranteed is that you cannot be turned down for a permit simply because of what you have to say.
Well, let me see if I have the math right. I think you would divide $29.99 by (infinity/5), which would make it effectively 0. So the new price is $0 for 5 GB of hotspot usage. I think that is reasonable.
I don't think I've ever seen someone telecommute who was FLSA non-exempt.
You mean who was ACTUALLY not FLSA non-exempt according to the law, or who was TOLD that they were not FLSA non-exempt? Companies make a habit of telling everyone that they are FLSA exempt even though in 90% of cases or more, the employees are not exempt. I am not exempt, and neither are the bottom 70% of the company I work for, but they are all paid on an exempt basis.
The FLSA outlines various rules. There are basically three categories of exemption, and they are (vastly simplified):
1. Executive. If you are in charge of the company or primary duty is in running the company, and make more than $23,600 per year
2. Managerial. You manage at least two people, your primary duty is management, you have hiring and firing authority and you make more than $23, 600 per year.
3. Professional. You function as a Professional, ie Doctor, Lawyer, Dentist, or Professional Engineer. Note that professional Engineer does not mean code monkey. It means holding a Professional Engineering certificate from a state governing body and acting in a capacity as a professional Engineer. Inexplicably, some office administrative jobs are also considered exempt, if the person performs duties such as secretarial, office administrator, etc, then one is also considered exempt if they receive more than $23,600.
Everybody else, programmers, software engineers, IT support, helpdesk, paper pushers etc, are all subject to receiving time and a half over 40 hours.
The problem is partly regulation and partly that doctors are afraid to perform risky procedures because we have far too many lawyers and far too many greedy people who see an accident as just another way to get rich quick. Doctors hand you something to sign outlining the risk, explaining that the procedure might not work, might not work as expected, might cause side effects, might cause you to die, etc, and by signing you agree to the risks and agree not to sue. Then you sign the paper, and if something goes wrong, you sue anyway. The lawyers get richer, your still dead, the doctor is disenchanted with his career choice, and our healthcare system drops another notch in quality while jumping another notch in expense.
The legal system and sue-happy idiots are killing our country.
No, you would probably be on the hook for $75k plus some jail time, but if you stole it, made a bunch of exact copies and gave it to people for free, then you might be on the hook for $168 million.
A brief web search turns up that Ferrari is extremely vigilant about defending their work and sues practically everybody. I even found an article about Rolls Royce suing a golf cart manufacturer for making fake Rolls Royce front ends for their golf carts.
Seems like everybody is trying to defend their work, not just artists. I guess we just get so bent out of shape because technology has made it so easy to break the law that we think that maybe it shouldn't be illegal.
how can a song be worth $150,000?
Well, a song may very well be worth $150,000 when first introduced to a studio. However, in this case, it is simply playing sleight-of-hand with the information. The song was put up on kazaa and could have been downloaded any number of times, including 0 and 1 billion, so the actual cost per song was somewhere between infinity and fractions of a penny. It is probably safe to say that it was downloaded lots of times, and the resulting cost per song is fairly low.
Not just the government. You can agree to give up a constitutional right in an employment agreement, but you can't actually give it up. Even if he said "Yes, I give up my right to privacy outside of the workplace", he still has the right to privacy outside the workplace.
Just because he may have been defrauding the government doesn't mean we should condone illegal and unconstitutional methods in order to try to find him out.
Meanwhile the anti-evolutionary creationists will forever emphasize that there are spaces between the data points.
Well, who can blame them? You're correct that we can't expect a perfectly smooth fossil record, but when there is such a large sampling surrounding the data points, with nothing in between, it would be kind of suspect to a mathematician. I mean, for example, we have found 30 T Rex. We have found 11 Archaeopteryx. And it is not like all of these were found in the same location trapped in a mudbank or something. When you have clusters like this and nothing in between, it starts raising questions. I mean two or three is chance, but 11? 30?
We are left to have to consider other options, such as evolution being fairly static for a while and then moving with very rapid speed (perhaps due to an environmental change), such that the "in between" population was an order of magnitude less than the "stable" species.
So if I were in Congress and I was asked to spend money on something that would bring no obvious benefit to the folks that elected me and would almost certain to be used against me in the next election, how do you think I would vote?
Well, as a congresscritter you are not there to get re-elected, you are there to carry out the will of your constituents. Normally, carrying out the will of your constituents IS good for your career, though. In this case, I would expect that the will of your constituents is probably to vote it down. That is because, on averages, most constituents are probably not very forward thinking. They would probably prefer that you spend the money on free handouts for locals, thus continuing and expanding the supply of uninformed constituents.
Wow, it appears that everything but the bottom right 1/6th of the graph ought to be excised. And probably plenty inside what is left over we can do without as well. The federal government has gotten way too involved. They should only be supplying services that are necessary to the well-being and future of our country but that doesn't make sense for state, local or individuals to fund.
There are two things wrong with your first sentence. One is that humans HAVE survived transit through the Van Allen belts, with no apparent after effects, and two is that the Van Allen radiation belts do contain radiation that can be harmful to integrated circuits and solar cells, so it is dangerous for robots too.
The 1960s were so great we're going to go back to them?
Let's see. Moon Rockets, SR-71, Boeing 747, Boeing 737, Concorde, Arpanet, RAM, BASIC, Electronic Fuel Injection.
I'd say the 60's is pretty much the local peak of human achievement.
I AM TRYING TO GIVE YOU MONEY
At least half of the companies I try to buy from will not answer their phone when I call, and will not answer phone calls or e-mails. Why should Cisco be any different?
Apparently, the economy is doing so well that salespeople can actively ignore people wanting to buy stuff from their company.
It's a different economic climate. Most companies don't have the growing markets or high future expectation to justify hiring more people, especially in the expensive developed world.
They would if they would stop outsourcing jobs to third world countries. Then first world people would be able to buy their products and their market would grow.
More anecdotal evidence. I had a roommate who was allergic to cats. I had two cats. For a month or two he was coughing, sneezing and hacking, but after that, he was completely fine.
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Dont jump from "There used to be ice, now there isn't." to "We did it"
He didn't. He said it wasn't natural. If it wasn't natural, it must be supernatural. If we did it, it would be natural.
Well, maybe it is just me, but 500 times the size of the great pyramid of giza just doesn't seem like a huge amount to me when we're talking about something huge like an ice shelf. We're talking a chunk of ice that is about 1 cubic kilometer. That's less than 1 billionth of the Earth's water.
Earth to douche bag, scientists have concluded that man is responsible for global warming.
Oh, then it IS natural.
Apparently the part that is unclear is the part that says you have the right to free speech. That seems pretty clear to me. Why we should infer that we should be able to block a public thoroughfare in order to practice that right is beyond me. Just because one person decides to exercise a right doesn't mean that 1,000 other people all of a sudden lose their rights.
Nowhere in the first amendment does it say that you cannot be charged a fee for holding a public event or that you cannot be required to have a permit in order to hold such an event. All that you are guaranteed is that you cannot be turned down for a permit simply because of what you have to say.
Well, a quick search shows that CNN, FOX and MSNBC all have articles about the protests, so I don't think there is any kind of conspiratorial coverup.
Wow, that is one ugly car. How much do they pay one to drive it?
Well, let me see if I have the math right. I think you would divide $29.99 by (infinity/5), which would make it effectively 0. So the new price is $0 for 5 GB of hotspot usage. I think that is reasonable.
I don't think I've ever seen someone telecommute who was FLSA non-exempt.
You mean who was ACTUALLY not FLSA non-exempt according to the law, or who was TOLD that they were not FLSA non-exempt? Companies make a habit of telling everyone that they are FLSA exempt even though in 90% of cases or more, the employees are not exempt. I am not exempt, and neither are the bottom 70% of the company I work for, but they are all paid on an exempt basis.
The FLSA outlines various rules. There are basically three categories of exemption, and they are (vastly simplified):
1. Executive. If you are in charge of the company or primary duty is in running the company, and make more than $23,600 per year 2. Managerial. You manage at least two people, your primary duty is management, you have hiring and firing authority and you make more than $23, 600 per year. 3. Professional. You function as a Professional, ie Doctor, Lawyer, Dentist, or Professional Engineer. Note that professional Engineer does not mean code monkey. It means holding a Professional Engineering certificate from a state governing body and acting in a capacity as a professional Engineer. Inexplicably, some office administrative jobs are also considered exempt, if the person performs duties such as secretarial, office administrator, etc, then one is also considered exempt if they receive more than $23,600.
Everybody else, programmers, software engineers, IT support, helpdesk, paper pushers etc, are all subject to receiving time and a half over 40 hours.
The top 1% pay 28% of the taxes amounting to 18% of their income according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The problem is partly regulation and partly that doctors are afraid to perform risky procedures because we have far too many lawyers and far too many greedy people who see an accident as just another way to get rich quick. Doctors hand you something to sign outlining the risk, explaining that the procedure might not work, might not work as expected, might cause side effects, might cause you to die, etc, and by signing you agree to the risks and agree not to sue. Then you sign the paper, and if something goes wrong, you sue anyway. The lawyers get richer, your still dead, the doctor is disenchanted with his career choice, and our healthcare system drops another notch in quality while jumping another notch in expense.
The legal system and sue-happy idiots are killing our country.
No, you would probably be on the hook for $75k plus some jail time, but if you stole it, made a bunch of exact copies and gave it to people for free, then you might be on the hook for $168 million.
A brief web search turns up that Ferrari is extremely vigilant about defending their work and sues practically everybody. I even found an article about Rolls Royce suing a golf cart manufacturer for making fake Rolls Royce front ends for their golf carts.
Seems like everybody is trying to defend their work, not just artists. I guess we just get so bent out of shape because technology has made it so easy to break the law that we think that maybe it shouldn't be illegal.
how can a song be worth $150,000?
Well, a song may very well be worth $150,000 when first introduced to a studio. However, in this case, it is simply playing sleight-of-hand with the information. The song was put up on kazaa and could have been downloaded any number of times, including 0 and 1 billion, so the actual cost per song was somewhere between infinity and fractions of a penny. It is probably safe to say that it was downloaded lots of times, and the resulting cost per song is fairly low.
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Not just the government. You can agree to give up a constitutional right in an employment agreement, but you can't actually give it up. Even if he said "Yes, I give up my right to privacy outside of the workplace", he still has the right to privacy outside the workplace.
Just because he may have been defrauding the government doesn't mean we should condone illegal and unconstitutional methods in order to try to find him out.
Meanwhile the anti-evolutionary creationists will forever emphasize that there are spaces between the data points.
Well, who can blame them? You're correct that we can't expect a perfectly smooth fossil record, but when there is such a large sampling surrounding the data points, with nothing in between, it would be kind of suspect to a mathematician. I mean, for example, we have found 30 T Rex. We have found 11 Archaeopteryx. And it is not like all of these were found in the same location trapped in a mudbank or something. When you have clusters like this and nothing in between, it starts raising questions. I mean two or three is chance, but 11? 30?
We are left to have to consider other options, such as evolution being fairly static for a while and then moving with very rapid speed (perhaps due to an environmental change), such that the "in between" population was an order of magnitude less than the "stable" species.
So if I were in Congress and I was asked to spend money on something that would bring no obvious benefit to the folks that elected me and would almost certain to be used against me in the next election, how do you think I would vote?
Well, as a congresscritter you are not there to get re-elected, you are there to carry out the will of your constituents. Normally, carrying out the will of your constituents IS good for your career, though. In this case, I would expect that the will of your constituents is probably to vote it down. That is because, on averages, most constituents are probably not very forward thinking. They would probably prefer that you spend the money on free handouts for locals, thus continuing and expanding the supply of uninformed constituents.
Wow, it appears that everything but the bottom right 1/6th of the graph ought to be excised. And probably plenty inside what is left over we can do without as well. The federal government has gotten way too involved. They should only be supplying services that are necessary to the well-being and future of our country but that doesn't make sense for state, local or individuals to fund.
There are two things wrong with your first sentence. One is that humans HAVE survived transit through the Van Allen belts, with no apparent after effects, and two is that the Van Allen radiation belts do contain radiation that can be harmful to integrated circuits and solar cells, so it is dangerous for robots too.
The 1960s were so great we're going to go back to them?
Let's see. Moon Rockets, SR-71, Boeing 747, Boeing 737, Concorde, Arpanet, RAM, BASIC, Electronic Fuel Injection.
I'd say the 60's is pretty much the local peak of human achievement.
They could have advertised it as a smart phone. What are the odds anybody would ever try to make a call on it?
When 80% of the people "Fell from building" I stop thinking suicide and start thinking murder.
I AM TRYING TO GIVE YOU MONEY
At least half of the companies I try to buy from will not answer their phone when I call, and will not answer phone calls or e-mails. Why should Cisco be any different? Apparently, the economy is doing so well that salespeople can actively ignore people wanting to buy stuff from their company.
It's a different economic climate. Most companies don't have the growing markets or high future expectation to justify hiring more people, especially in the expensive developed world.
They would if they would stop outsourcing jobs to third world countries. Then first world people would be able to buy their products and their market would grow.
More anecdotal evidence. I had a roommate who was allergic to cats. I had two cats. For a month or two he was coughing, sneezing and hacking, but after that, he was completely fine.