Produce more energy. This is not hard to do, and anyone with half a brain knows about all the awesome relatively free energy sources such as wind...Oh my God! The poor eagles!...solar ...Oh my God! The poor plants!...geothermal...Oh my God! The poor worms!...tidal....Oh my God! The poor fish!
I live 7 miles from a city of over a million and 1/2 a mile from an Air Force Base and I can see thousands of stars in the sky. Mind you, I do enjoy camping out in the backwoods and yes, the sky is much crisper and the number of visible stars greater, but I am going to have to dock them a few points for exaggeration.
You're in the vast majority of people who voted for Obama then.
What? The vast majority or potential voters didn't even vote. Of those who did vote, a less than 10% margin of the popular vote turned the vote towards Obama.
Your post reminded me of the Peter Principle. "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
I am familiar with that principle, but I have never been in an organization that used it. In every organization that I have been in, if you are really good at your job, then you aren't going anywhere aside from a 5% raise every 3 or 4 years if you complain and threaten to leave. The ones who are raised to higher positions are the ones that can be lived without in the position they currently occupy.
Operating a wireless device on a plane in flight is not against FAA regulations nor do I think it likely to be against Jet Blue's policy. I was not able to find their policy on the web, but most airlines allow use of some electronic devices after the plane reaches 10,000 feet, including laptops, portable DVD players, mp3 players, etc. Video cameras are fine. They had the right to ask her to delete it and she had the right to say no. They had no right to have her removed from the plane or arrested.
If you ain't an Indian, you're an immigrant (and should go home and leave us alone)
American Indians are immigrants, too. They just got here first. Everyone who is not an indigenous species to the American continents should go home.
Perhaps it's just my firm belief that organized religion is a dangerous habit that by all logic should be treated with the same disdain as any other self-indulgent delusion;
You're not alone. Jesus felt the same way, and several of his followers wrote extensively about it.
Why do people hate others so easily?
Evolution. 100,000 years of distrust of unfamiliar things and pattern recognition have been profitable for the human race as a whole. A couple of decades of PC thought is not going to change that.
Not that I condone this particular situation. The airline was in the wrong and should have at the very least refunded their money and bought them a ticket on another airline.
Strangely enough, most of the people who did manage to have the resources to get out were the white folks. When you take the fact that the government rescue effort was abysmal at best and didn't really get rolling until the airwaves were blanketed by some pretty ugly imagery, some might even speculate that 'George Bush hates black people'. Of course I would never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. All the same, it seems like a sad state of affairs when the preferable alternative is multiple levels of sheer incompetence.
Well, I don't see what George Bush has to do with Katrina. It is not the Federal Governments responsibility to take care of local disasters. The Federal Government may providing funding to local agencies should they decide the disaster warrants it, which they did. Then the local agencies and local governments are expected to take care of the issue. How can we criticize Bush for not doing enough when he was not required to do anything at all? There was no Federal aid for the Great Chicago Fire which also affected many poor people, most of them white. Nobody seems to have faulted Grant for not having the Federal Government rebuild Chicago.
That depends on the student and the teacher. I usually managed to go home with no homework because I would finish the assignment in class, or if not in that class, then in the next class after I finished the assignment in THAT class. I would guess that I had perhaps 60 hours of homework in a year. Maybe even less. And I think I only had to use a computer about 4 hours a year for homework.
All Comcast has to do is show that cable TV and set top boxes are not separate products, and *poof* the antitrust suit disappears.
We are in a bit of a Catch-22 here. Because all of the cable companies (not just comcast) require you to rent a box from them in order to have their digital or high definition service, technology companies know that there is very little money to be made in making a standalone box. Then, because there are few alternatives, cable companies can claim that the hardware is part of the service.
For Christmas, we got a second HDTV. In order to get high definition service to that TV, I have to rent another box from Cox, or get a DVR with tuner that is compatible with Cox. When I went looking, I found three groups of choices. The Tivo group, which I was lead to believe would require a separate monthly subscription fee which I am not interested in because I just want to be able to change channels and record shows. The second group was DirectTV, which I was lead to believe is not compatible with Cox, and the third group was really just a single stand alone DVR player that I was able to find on Amazon. Unfortunately, on this one, you could not record while watching another show, so that pretty much eliminated that. There were also some Scientific Atlantica DVRs of the same model that Cox rents, but from what I read, retailers are not allowed to sell these to consumers and of the two reviews I could find for this product, one indicated that the cable company listed its serial number as a stolen unit and he was fortunate to be able to send it back and get his money back. The other indicated that he never received the unit, but the seller did eventually give his money back.
So, essentially, by having anti-competitive agreements in place, cable companies are able to stifle competition and can thus show that the hardware and the service are a package.
The house yes, but the land no. Most places, you are only leasing the land for 99 years. So be careful when you tell those teenagers to get off your lawn.
I believe that the first stipulation is adequately covered by an NDA. There is no reason to block you from working in the industry that you likely went to school for 4 years or more to learn just because you decided you or they decided to terminate your employment. Now, if they would like to compensate you for all of that training, plus pay for you to learn another industry and compensate you for setting your experience clock back to you, that would be fine.
I think a previous poster said it best, if you don't want them to go work for the competition, then keep paying their salary.
Although there are not specific laws in all states about this, if you did actually sue for the right to work for a company, you would almost certainly win. Blocking a person from working in his/her chosen legal profession is a clear violation of basic inalienable human rights according to the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
I came home late the other night and as I got out of the car I heard the magpie, I looked up and spotted my "dumb" magpie sitting on top of the street light stuffing his face with moths and beetles that were swarming around the light.
On the vein of smart animals, last year I purchased a bug zapper (yes, I know, you are better off buying one for your neighbors than for yourself, but there's no arguing with the missus). The first night, it started zapping bugs and attracting June Bugs. The second night, just after it came on, I noticed 3 or 4 toads showed up and hung out underneath it, gorging themselves on June Bugs that landed underneath it.
For those not familiar with June Bugs, they are the answer to the supposition that Bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly. June Bugs truly can't fly. Which doesn't mean that they don't get up in the air and try. I think if they survive in the long run, they are going to end up having to grow landing gear out of the top side of their body, because they always seem to be upside down on the side walk, or more commonly, drowning in the swimming pool. You can pick one up and throw it in the air, and within two seconds, it will have hit the ground again. It is a miracle of nature that these things have not gone extinct.
If someone else can zip around you, you had plenty of space to safely move to the right.
Wrong. It is safe to pull over when you have established a 2 second buffer between you and the person in the right lane. Not 2 car lengths. At highways speeds, you need almost 200 feet, or about 15 car lengths.
Two car lengths is acceptable if you are going about 10 MPH.
Hitting your blinker helps to let people know that you are planning on getting back over, but too often people will just zoom on by on the right without signaling even when I am signaling.
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Better than a one-year membership in a jelly of the month club...
I got a donation made in my name to some charity (not the Human Fund). I suppose this gives me positive karma. I will attempt to mention this donation down at the grocery store and see if they will give me some free groceries because of my generosity.
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All the P.O.s in my area have a separate room or even a separate entrance for the P.O. Box area which is open 24/7.
Allow me to speak for the opposition.
Produce more energy. This is not hard to do, and anyone with half a brain knows about all the awesome relatively free energy sources such as wind...Oh my God! The poor eagles!...solar
...Oh my God! The poor plants!...geothermal...Oh my God! The poor worms!...tidal....Oh my God! The poor fish!
I live 7 miles from a city of over a million and 1/2 a mile from an Air Force Base and I can see thousands of stars in the sky. Mind you, I do enjoy camping out in the backwoods and yes, the sky is much crisper and the number of visible stars greater, but I am going to have to dock them a few points for exaggeration.
Sorry, I grouped it like this:
(You're in the vast majority of people) who voted for Obama then.
And I guess you meant:
(You're in the vast majority of people who voted for Obama) then.
Changes everything.
You're in the vast majority of people who voted for Obama then.
What? The vast majority or potential voters didn't even vote. Of those who did vote, a less than 10% margin of the popular vote turned the vote towards Obama.
The obvious question is: does requesting your own info raise a red flag?
I guess you'd have to order it again to find out.
Your post reminded me of the Peter Principle. "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
I am familiar with that principle, but I have never been in an organization that used it. In every organization that I have been in, if you are really good at your job, then you aren't going anywhere aside from a 5% raise every 3 or 4 years if you complain and threaten to leave. The ones who are raised to higher positions are the ones that can be lived without in the position they currently occupy.
Operating a wireless device on a plane in flight is not against FAA regulations nor do I think it likely to be against Jet Blue's policy. I was not able to find their policy on the web, but most airlines allow use of some electronic devices after the plane reaches 10,000 feet, including laptops, portable DVD players, mp3 players, etc. Video cameras are fine. They had the right to ask her to delete it and she had the right to say no. They had no right to have her removed from the plane or arrested.
It's too late for me. I know, seems odd being slashdot and all. No pictures to prove it either. But my kids will vouch for me.
And don't say "Hi, Jack" when greeting your friend at the airport.
If you ain't an Indian, you're an immigrant (and should go home and leave us alone)
American Indians are immigrants, too. They just got here first. Everyone who is not an indigenous species to the American continents should go home.
Perhaps it's just my firm belief that organized religion is a dangerous habit that by all logic should be treated with the same disdain as any other self-indulgent delusion;
You're not alone. Jesus felt the same way, and several of his followers wrote extensively about it.
Why do people hate others so easily?
Evolution. 100,000 years of distrust of unfamiliar things and pattern recognition have been profitable for the human race as a whole. A couple of decades of PC thought is not going to change that.
Not that I condone this particular situation. The airline was in the wrong and should have at the very least refunded their money and bought them a ticket on another airline.
If that doesn't work, there is always a virgin sacrifice.
Strangely enough, most of the people who did manage to have the resources to get out were the white folks. When you take the fact that the government rescue effort was abysmal at best and didn't really get rolling until the airwaves were blanketed by some pretty ugly imagery, some might even speculate that 'George Bush hates black people'. Of course I would never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. All the same, it seems like a sad state of affairs when the preferable alternative is multiple levels of sheer incompetence.
Well, I don't see what George Bush has to do with Katrina. It is not the Federal Governments responsibility to take care of local disasters. The Federal Government may providing funding to local agencies should they decide the disaster warrants it, which they did. Then the local agencies and local governments are expected to take care of the issue. How can we criticize Bush for not doing enough when he was not required to do anything at all? There was no Federal aid for the Great Chicago Fire which also affected many poor people, most of them white. Nobody seems to have faulted Grant for not having the Federal Government rebuild Chicago.
That depends on the student and the teacher. I usually managed to go home with no homework because I would finish the assignment in class, or if not in that class, then in the next class after I finished the assignment in THAT class. I would guess that I had perhaps 60 hours of homework in a year. Maybe even less. And I think I only had to use a computer about 4 hours a year for homework.
From what I recall, approximately zero. Even the computer class did not require any skills in business software, you just had to be able to program.
All Comcast has to do is show that cable TV and set top boxes are not separate products, and *poof* the antitrust suit disappears.
We are in a bit of a Catch-22 here. Because all of the cable companies (not just comcast) require you to rent a box from them in order to have their digital or high definition service, technology companies know that there is very little money to be made in making a standalone box. Then, because there are few alternatives, cable companies can claim that the hardware is part of the service.
For Christmas, we got a second HDTV. In order to get high definition service to that TV, I have to rent another box from Cox, or get a DVR with tuner that is compatible with Cox. When I went looking, I found three groups of choices. The Tivo group, which I was lead to believe would require a separate monthly subscription fee which I am not interested in because I just want to be able to change channels and record shows. The second group was DirectTV, which I was lead to believe is not compatible with Cox, and the third group was really just a single stand alone DVR player that I was able to find on Amazon. Unfortunately, on this one, you could not record while watching another show, so that pretty much eliminated that. There were also some Scientific Atlantica DVRs of the same model that Cox rents, but from what I read, retailers are not allowed to sell these to consumers and of the two reviews I could find for this product, one indicated that the cable company listed its serial number as a stolen unit and he was fortunate to be able to send it back and get his money back. The other indicated that he never received the unit, but the seller did eventually give his money back.
So, essentially, by having anti-competitive agreements in place, cable companies are able to stifle competition and can thus show that the hardware and the service are a package.
The house yes, but the land no. Most places, you are only leasing the land for 99 years. So be careful when you tell those teenagers to get off your lawn.
I believe that the first stipulation is adequately covered by an NDA. There is no reason to block you from working in the industry that you likely went to school for 4 years or more to learn just because you decided you or they decided to terminate your employment. Now, if they would like to compensate you for all of that training, plus pay for you to learn another industry and compensate you for setting your experience clock back to you, that would be fine.
I think a previous poster said it best, if you don't want them to go work for the competition, then keep paying their salary.
Although there are not specific laws in all states about this, if you did actually sue for the right to work for a company, you would almost certainly win. Blocking a person from working in his/her chosen legal profession is a clear violation of basic inalienable human rights according to the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
I came home late the other night and as I got out of the car I heard the magpie, I looked up and spotted my "dumb" magpie sitting on top of the street light stuffing his face with moths and beetles that were swarming around the light.
On the vein of smart animals, last year I purchased a bug zapper (yes, I know, you are better off buying one for your neighbors than for yourself, but there's no arguing with the missus). The first night, it started zapping bugs and attracting June Bugs. The second night, just after it came on, I noticed 3 or 4 toads showed up and hung out underneath it, gorging themselves on June Bugs that landed underneath it.
For those not familiar with June Bugs, they are the answer to the supposition that Bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly. June Bugs truly can't fly. Which doesn't mean that they don't get up in the air and try. I think if they survive in the long run, they are going to end up having to grow landing gear out of the top side of their body, because they always seem to be upside down on the side walk, or more commonly, drowning in the swimming pool. You can pick one up and throw it in the air, and within two seconds, it will have hit the ground again. It is a miracle of nature that these things have not gone extinct.
If someone else can zip around you, you had plenty of space to safely move to the right.
Wrong. It is safe to pull over when you have established a 2 second buffer between you and the person in the right lane. Not 2 car lengths. At highways speeds, you need almost 200 feet, or about 15 car lengths.
Two car lengths is acceptable if you are going about 10 MPH.
Hitting your blinker helps to let people know that you are planning on getting back over, but too often people will just zoom on by on the right without signaling even when I am signaling.
Welcome to Slashdot, where your opinion matters.
Here are your opinions:
Music should be free
Software should be free (except the software written by the developers in slashdot)
Obama is awesome
McCain sucks
America sucks
The war in Iraq is bad
Homosexuality is awesome
There is no God
Criminals should receive a stern talking to, and having learned their lesson, be put back on the street
Guns are evil
Microsoft is evil
Google is awesome (but stay tuned for further updates)
Linux is awesome
Apple is awesome
We will keep you informed as you form other opinions or your opinion changes. Enjoy your discussion on slashdot!
Better than a one-year membership in a jelly of the month club...
I got a donation made in my name to some charity (not the Human Fund). I suppose this gives me positive karma. I will attempt to mention this donation down at the grocery store and see if they will give me some free groceries because of my generosity.