I've never understood why Western society (and others) glorify the pissup.
Me either. Until I saw this story I had no idea that sending e-mail while drunk was a problem. But then I have never been drunk, and I have never gotten an e-mail from someone that appeared to be drunk.
On the other hand, I think this sort of test ought to be mandatory for Project Managers and other Management. "You are trying to assign yet another task to tompaulco. In order to proceed, please solve the halting problem. You have 10 seconds."
Does it really matter what AGE you are when you "first get a car"?
Of course it does. If you get a car when you are 30, you will probably have the same number of accidents caused by inexperience as the average teenager. However, the number of accidents caused by showing off, screwing around (the not-sexy kind), and the like will be much lower.
And what happens when they decide to limit the car's speed limit to all drivers? To extend your rationalization, there's no situation where anybody should need to go XXX MPH/KPH, right? Slippery slopes my friend, slippery slopes...
Come to think of it, it has been a long time since I have driven over 80 mph. I think I did 90 once for a short while about 4 years ago, and prior to that, I hadn't gone over 80 since I was probably 22 years old. And I was stupid to be going that fast in that situation, but you don't figure these things out until you mature.
It's the 4 cylinder "econoboxes" like the Focus, and many Far Eastern makes that have an issue with sustaining higher speeds (even a modified GM Quad-4 has had a ton of issues with that).
I don't think any of the far eastern econoboxes are going to have a problem hitting 80 unless by econoboxes you are referring to car with 1/2 the displacement of the Focus. I see the Focus has a 2 liter and I can believe that an American 2 liter 4 cylinder would have trouble hitting 80 or much above it, but any Japanese car with a 1.2 liter or higher is going to be very comfortable driving at 80. I've had 4 American cars, 1 British car, and 8 Japanese cars, and my observation is that a 4 cylinder 1.6 liter Japanese engine is about the equivalent of an American 2.5 liter 6 cylinder in terms of performance and top end.
I'd say that given the fact that the semi is directly in the line of sight of the SUV and only peripherally in your view, the SUV probably would have seen the truck start to move first and would know immediately that something was about to happen. Therefore, the best situation is to honk loudly, get as far to the side as possible and hit the breaks. You don't have time to get to the 90+ that you are going to need to get out of that situation, but you can slow down much more quickly.
If many newer commercial vehicles are limited at between 66 and 80mph, I'd say that's just as wrong...
80, though, is just barely above the speed limit in many places.
Commercial vehicles are usually subjected to a speed limit about 10-15 MPH below other vehicles. So 80 is still a fair stretch from the legal speed limit for them.
People, including kids, need to be free to do the wrong thing, because a) sometimes the wrong thing is really the right thing, and b) that's just how freedom works.
Kids need to not use my vehicle to do the wrong thing. When they get their own car and their own insurance they can break the law.
I agree that you should be free to do the wrong thing, so long as you don't actually do the wrong thing. There should be no need for a law against murder. People should be allowed to murder, but they shouldn't actually do it. Unfortunately, they do it, so we have to make laws against it and punish people for doing it.
Just because you trust your kid to be responsible doesn't mean he will be. I trusted one of my kids and he has lost my trust and will not regain it during this lifetime.
Fossett's accident is not the only publicly available information on aircraft accidents. All reported aircraft accidents and incidents are publicly available. Online even. Don't believe me?
"When the device was turned off, the average power output was 0.3677 hp. It increased to 0.4428 hp after the device was turned on."
I also saw no indication of how this device was powered in the article. It supposedly caused an increase in output by about.08 hp, or about 60 watts. How many watts of power does it take to run this device?
I don't see any reason why a company should be required to give you money when you refuse to do what they ask you to do.
I don't see any reason for that either. However, if they DO ask me to do something, I expect that they should be willing to pay for it. I was hired to work full time and I do and I get paid. If they ask me to work overtime, I should do so and should get paid for it. See, we agree. Unless you are saying that I should work overtime and NOT get paid for it, which is clearly ridiculous.
It's not automatically correct for IT workers to be called Exempt.
That is correct. However, in most states you can be fired for any reason or no reason and that includes standing up for your rights under federal law.
If they don't pay you overtime (as an hourly employee) then don't work it. They cannot fire you over it. At least not in my part of the US they can't.
You must live in an ever decreasing part of the United States. Where I live is a "right to work" state which means they can fire you for any reason or no reason unless you are a part of a protected class. This includes firing because "refused to work except when paid to do so."
And from a recent discussion about the differences between US and European work practices, it was generally agreed that the Europeans get the same amount of work done in 8 hours, that it takes the US 10 hours to do.
They'd pretty much have to in order to get the same amount of work in while having 4-6 weeks of paid vacation and more holidays than U.S. people and not working 3/4 of the hours that the typical U.S. IT person has to work.
Just try getting in touch with anybody in the European office in August. They are ALL on vacation.
If they took away the internet access, one would be miserable and one's productivity would go down.
Absolutely. How many times have you gone on the web to look for an elegant solution to some little code snippet working with an object or interface that you are not that familiar with? Sure you could trial and error your way to success, but you could shave hours off of your time by finding someone who has already done that. Unless everyone in the world works for your company and google has indexed the employees and their knowledge base for you, you are much more likely to be able to find that information on the internet then in your office.
If you're are just there for yourself and don't care about the success of the company you work for, you shouldn't be working there.
The company exists for the people, not the other way around. If the company is only there for itself and doesn't care about the success of its employees then it shouldn't exist.
I'd call 25% below the radar. They obviously don't take into account multitasking because I spend most of my day doing at least two things. I have gmail and slashdot up almost 100% of my day, but that doesn't mean I spend 25% of my day doing them. I'm usually browsing slashdot while waiting for my query to run, or while sitting on a conference call. With overtime and multitasking, I'd say there are well over 300% in my day as it is, so 25% is less than the average smoker spends outside every day.
As far as 80% of e-mails being personal, my experience in the work environment is that this is probably off by at least an order of magnitude. On my work e-mail, I easily get 200 work related e-mails for every personal one, and even that is only if I consider non-work related snide comments in response to work related emails to be personal. Some of the guys at work like to send each other youtube links and forward each other urban legends, but there is no way it is 80% of their emails. Now if you consider that 90% of work related emails are unnecessary then yes I'd guess that you get about 4 personal e-mails for every useful work related e-mail.
Unless I read wrong and my google search says otherwise, they are taking Securerom out of Spore. I don't know if mine had SecureRom or not. I had heard that Spore's SecureRom would not even let you play if it detected a ISO loader on the system. I have or at least had at the time Daemon Tools, but Spore loaded and played just fine. I didn't even have to have the CD in the drive to play it. Now I haven't tried anything like making a copy of the game and installing from that, but then I have never done that with any other game either.
Also, I got lucky in that the Spore patch wouldn't load on my computer, it just sits there spinning forever saying it is patching files. However, this turns out to be a good thing as about 1/3 of people's games are dead in the water after the patch.
I actually found the valedictorians/salutatorians at my school to be quite social.
Yes, at my school also, the valedictorian and salutatorian status were often rewarded more on social status than grades. I mean you could have 5% of the class get straight As but you can only have one valedictorian and one salutatorian (well, now I guess they have a whole bucketload of each, but this was 20 years ago), so they did have to get good grades, but they definitely would choose the one that was in the most social clubs over the true bookworm.
Along those lines, what is with anyone with a B average or higher being on the Honor Roll? It used to be that you had to get straight As, but now just about anybody coasting through can be on the Honor Roll.
Before the grammar Nazis get here... It'd read better if I said "the type of classes I wasn't particularly interested in."
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If you wanted to really be a stickler, you wouldn't end your sentence with a preposition. As unwieldy and pedantic as it sounds to the ear, the preferred syntax would be "...the type of class in which I wasn't particularly interested."
A better way would be to say "the type of classes I wasn't interested in... you stupid git". That solves the preposition problem nicely.
If you think it started with the baby boomers then you just haven't been around long enough. It's been going on since the amoeba. Natural selection worries about continuation of the species. Individuals are more concerned about continuation of themselves.
Turboprops do serve a purpose though. They have the advantages of a prop, which allows them to take off in a shorter distance than a jet engine, while also having a jet engine, which allows them to fly in thinner atmosphere and thus higher than a typical piston prop aircraft. It fits a nice niche between what the typical piston prop is used for and a typical jet engined aircraft is used for. And yes by being a little of both, it is also less efficient at both. Sort of like how an SUV is neither as sporty as a real sports car nor as Utility as a real truck.
See, this is part of the reason that Greens have no leg to stand on. Just like everyone else, they are hypocrites. They are happy to point out every little thing that you do that destroys the environment as long as it is something that they choose not to partake of. If the Green rides a bike to work, he will complain about your cars emissions. But if he drives a car to work, he will complain about something else, like your BBQ, or your use of non-CFT lightbulbs. And in a few years, he will be complaining about your CFT lightbulbs and all their mercury (about 1/1000 of that in a typical thermostat).
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I've never understood why Western society (and others) glorify the pissup.
Me either. Until I saw this story I had no idea that sending e-mail while drunk was a problem. But then I have never been drunk, and I have never gotten an e-mail from someone that appeared to be drunk.
On the other hand, I think this sort of test ought to be mandatory for Project Managers and other Management. "You are trying to assign yet another task to tompaulco. In order to proceed, please solve the halting problem. You have 10 seconds."
Does it really matter what AGE you are when you "first get a car"?
Of course it does. If you get a car when you are 30, you will probably have the same number of accidents caused by inexperience as the average teenager. However, the number of accidents caused by showing off, screwing around (the not-sexy kind), and the like will be much lower.
And what happens when they decide to limit the car's speed limit to all drivers? To extend your rationalization, there's no situation where anybody should need to go XXX MPH/KPH, right? Slippery slopes my friend, slippery slopes...
Come to think of it, it has been a long time since I have driven over 80 mph. I think I did 90 once for a short while about 4 years ago, and prior to that, I hadn't gone over 80 since I was probably 22 years old. And I was stupid to be going that fast in that situation, but you don't figure these things out until you mature.
It's the 4 cylinder "econoboxes" like the Focus, and many Far Eastern makes that have an issue with sustaining higher speeds (even a modified GM Quad-4 has had a ton of issues with that).
I don't think any of the far eastern econoboxes are going to have a problem hitting 80 unless by econoboxes you are referring to car with 1/2 the displacement of the Focus. I see the Focus has a 2 liter and I can believe that an American 2 liter 4 cylinder would have trouble hitting 80 or much above it, but any Japanese car with a 1.2 liter or higher is going to be very comfortable driving at 80. I've had 4 American cars, 1 British car, and 8 Japanese cars, and my observation is that a 4 cylinder 1.6 liter Japanese engine is about the equivalent of an American 2.5 liter 6 cylinder in terms of performance and top end.
I'd say that given the fact that the semi is directly in the line of sight of the SUV and only peripherally in your view, the SUV probably would have seen the truck start to move first and would know immediately that something was about to happen. Therefore, the best situation is to honk loudly, get as far to the side as possible and hit the breaks. You don't have time to get to the 90+ that you are going to need to get out of that situation, but you can slow down much more quickly.
If many newer commercial vehicles are limited at between 66 and 80mph, I'd say that's just as wrong... 80, though, is just barely above the speed limit in many places.
Commercial vehicles are usually subjected to a speed limit about 10-15 MPH below other vehicles. So 80 is still a fair stretch from the legal speed limit for them.
People, including kids, need to be free to do the wrong thing, because a) sometimes the wrong thing is really the right thing, and b) that's just how freedom works.
Kids need to not use my vehicle to do the wrong thing. When they get their own car and their own insurance they can break the law.
I agree that you should be free to do the wrong thing, so long as you don't actually do the wrong thing. There should be no need for a law against murder. People should be allowed to murder, but they shouldn't actually do it. Unfortunately, they do it, so we have to make laws against it and punish people for doing it.
Just because you trust your kid to be responsible doesn't mean he will be. I trusted one of my kids and he has lost my trust and will not regain it during this lifetime.
Fossett's accident is not the only publicly available information on aircraft accidents. All reported aircraft accidents and incidents are publicly available. Online even. Don't believe me?
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P.S. IOC, I would be happy to translate this for you in case you can;t figure out my point.
"When the device was turned off, the average power output was 0.3677 hp. It increased to 0.4428 hp after the device was turned on." .08 hp, or about 60 watts. How many watts of power does it take to run this device?
I also saw no indication of how this device was powered in the article. It supposedly caused an increase in output by about
I don't see any reason why a company should be required to give you money when you refuse to do what they ask you to do.
I don't see any reason for that either. However, if they DO ask me to do something, I expect that they should be willing to pay for it. I was hired to work full time and I do and I get paid. If they ask me to work overtime, I should do so and should get paid for it. See, we agree. Unless you are saying that I should work overtime and NOT get paid for it, which is clearly ridiculous.
It's not automatically correct for IT workers to be called Exempt.
That is correct. However, in most states you can be fired for any reason or no reason and that includes standing up for your rights under federal law.
If they don't pay you overtime (as an hourly employee) then don't work it. They cannot fire you over it. At least not in my part of the US they can't.
You must live in an ever decreasing part of the United States. Where I live is a "right to work" state which means they can fire you for any reason or no reason unless you are a part of a protected class. This includes firing because "refused to work except when paid to do so."
And from a recent discussion about the differences between US and European work practices, it was generally agreed that the Europeans get the same amount of work done in 8 hours, that it takes the US 10 hours to do.
They'd pretty much have to in order to get the same amount of work in while having 4-6 weeks of paid vacation and more holidays than U.S. people and not working 3/4 of the hours that the typical U.S. IT person has to work.
Just try getting in touch with anybody in the European office in August. They are ALL on vacation.
If they took away the internet access, one would be miserable and one's productivity would go down.
Absolutely. How many times have you gone on the web to look for an elegant solution to some little code snippet working with an object or interface that you are not that familiar with? Sure you could trial and error your way to success, but you could shave hours off of your time by finding someone who has already done that. Unless everyone in the world works for your company and google has indexed the employees and their knowledge base for you, you are much more likely to be able to find that information on the internet then in your office.
If you're are just there for yourself and don't care about the success of the company you work for, you shouldn't be working there.
The company exists for the people, not the other way around. If the company is only there for itself and doesn't care about the success of its employees then it shouldn't exist.
I'd call 25% below the radar. They obviously don't take into account multitasking because I spend most of my day doing at least two things. I have gmail and slashdot up almost 100% of my day, but that doesn't mean I spend 25% of my day doing them. I'm usually browsing slashdot while waiting for my query to run, or while sitting on a conference call. With overtime and multitasking, I'd say there are well over 300% in my day as it is, so 25% is less than the average smoker spends outside every day.
As far as 80% of e-mails being personal, my experience in the work environment is that this is probably off by at least an order of magnitude. On my work e-mail, I easily get 200 work related e-mails for every personal one, and even that is only if I consider non-work related snide comments in response to work related emails to be personal. Some of the guys at work like to send each other youtube links and forward each other urban legends, but there is no way it is 80% of their emails. Now if you consider that 90% of work related emails are unnecessary then yes I'd guess that you get about 4 personal e-mails for every useful work related e-mail.
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I'd dare say even Alan Parsons Project.
Unless I read wrong and my google search says otherwise, they are taking Securerom out of Spore. I don't know if mine had SecureRom or not. I had heard that Spore's SecureRom would not even let you play if it detected a ISO loader on the system. I have or at least had at the time Daemon Tools, but Spore loaded and played just fine. I didn't even have to have the CD in the drive to play it. Now I haven't tried anything like making a copy of the game and installing from that, but then I have never done that with any other game either.
Also, I got lucky in that the Spore patch wouldn't load on my computer, it just sits there spinning forever saying it is patching files. However, this turns out to be a good thing as about 1/3 of people's games are dead in the water after the patch.
I actually found the valedictorians/salutatorians at my school to be quite social.
Yes, at my school also, the valedictorian and salutatorian status were often rewarded more on social status than grades. I mean you could have 5% of the class get straight As but you can only have one valedictorian and one salutatorian (well, now I guess they have a whole bucketload of each, but this was 20 years ago), so they did have to get good grades, but they definitely would choose the one that was in the most social clubs over the true bookworm.
Along those lines, what is with anyone with a B average or higher being on the Honor Roll? It used to be that you had to get straight As, but now just about anybody coasting through can be on the Honor Roll.
Before the grammar Nazis get here... It'd read better if I said "the type of classes I wasn't particularly interested in." ... you stupid git". That solves the preposition problem nicely.
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If you wanted to really be a stickler, you wouldn't end your sentence with a preposition. As unwieldy and pedantic as it sounds to the ear, the preferred syntax would be "...the type of class in which I wasn't particularly interested."
A better way would be to say "the type of classes I wasn't interested in
If you think it started with the baby boomers then you just haven't been around long enough. It's been going on since the amoeba. Natural selection worries about continuation of the species. Individuals are more concerned about continuation of themselves.
Turboprops do serve a purpose though. They have the advantages of a prop, which allows them to take off in a shorter distance than a jet engine, while also having a jet engine, which allows them to fly in thinner atmosphere and thus higher than a typical piston prop aircraft. It fits a nice niche between what the typical piston prop is used for and a typical jet engined aircraft is used for. And yes by being a little of both, it is also less efficient at both. Sort of like how an SUV is neither as sporty as a real sports car nor as Utility as a real truck.
See, this is part of the reason that Greens have no leg to stand on. Just like everyone else, they are hypocrites. They are happy to point out every little thing that you do that destroys the environment as long as it is something that they choose not to partake of. If the Green rides a bike to work, he will complain about your cars emissions. But if he drives a car to work, he will complain about something else, like your BBQ, or your use of non-CFT lightbulbs. And in a few years, he will be complaining about your CFT lightbulbs and all their mercury (about 1/1000 of that in a typical thermostat).