If its any consolation we in Birmingham ( UK ) built a mag-lev between the airport and the railway station back in 1984. I think it might have worked for a little while but then for some reason or other it became unmaintainable and the whole thing is now operated by attaching a cable to one the front of the train and dragging it down the track on a pulley.
The track is only 400M long and the train was only designed to travel at 10mph but the whole thing has been an enormous white elephant and laughing stock virtually from the day it was built. I think it was the worlds first fully operating mag-lev system though.
What your describing is, hopefully, a one off situation. If you're constantly having to work overtime to sort out problems then the problem is really a bigger issue and needs to be sorted out by the business.
Even then I'd still expect to be paid for any extra hours I work.
Well done, all that hard work really pays off doesn't it. Never mind that you're in the office 60 hours a week and too scared of losing your job to take anything like a holiday.
Personally I like the fact I have a set working week and I can pick or choose if I want to work extra hours ( for extra pay ) without fear of losing my job. I like the month or so of holidays I get a year, I enjoy taking afternoons off and I'm not concerned where my country comes in the big league table of economic superpowers. Working as we do here provides an excellent standard of living which we have maximum time to enjoy.
I'm so happy you have all the money, it must be a real consolation for you.
Of course you were being taken for a ride, it's the companies job to squeeze as much out their employees as they can for as little as possible.
It's your responsibility to realise that if you signed up for 40hours a week working hours then that's how many hours you should do. If you're not getting paid why on Earth would you work, this has always been a mystery to me.
The best situation is where you can manage your time flexibly, do your 40 hours of work at a time which suits both you and the company best.
I really am amazed that you all don't seem to expect overtime for working more hours, this is madness. I live in the UK and I can tell you I would never ever make a habit of working more hours than I was contracted for without expecting overtime and I think thats a fairly attitude here. If you're working for something then they need to pay you for the work, it's a simple as that. I'm not a charity !
Hah, that's what they want you to think. Almost the perfect cover for their fleet of black VTOL super silent jet aircraft ( based on stolen alien tech )
Criminals in the UK ( at least the young up and coming generation of criminals ) are so not bovvered by CCTV and the likes they already film their crimes themselves and post them on YouTube for all the world to see.
From personal experience every crime I have been victim to ( usually bikes being stolen ) have taken place under the eye of CCTV camera and in every case the camera was either turned off, not working or didn't have a tape in it.
An even closer analogy would be if the car was in fact a small box built from plastic and containing various chips and fans which allowed it to control viewing screens and sound output devices.
The company which creates the controlling systems for these boxes, lets call these "software", are in the business of writing general software which allows the boxes to operate but also decide to include specific software to allow the viewing screens to display a primitive representation of a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of people throughout the world, which we'll call the World Wide Web. By providing software to access the World Wide Web as part of the general operating software for the boxes this company is placing a huge obstacle in the path of any other companies who wish to sell software to access the web.
I hope that makes things a bit easier to visualise.
Why not just have the first machine send the results to the second directly? Or simply eliminate the second machine altogether, and have the first one print a 'receipt' for the voter to look at?
Because that would be electronic voting with all the problems of accuracy, reliability and accountability that come with it we're trying to avoid and which doesn't as yet have any benefit to the voter at all except that it's cheaper. It could be argued that voting is the most important thing you can do in a democracy so trying to shave a few pounds or dollars from the cost isn't really a very sensible idea if it means delivering a less effective system.
As I understand it the problem is that humans don't mark the papers correctly which makes it hard for them to be read and processed efficiently.
Wouldn't the simplest answer be to use whatever interface these voting machines have to make it easy for the voters to select their candidates and then just print out the voting slip from the back of the machine in a standard format which can be read electronically easily. The voter then takes the paper from the printer, reads it to check his choices have been correctly entered and then puts his vote in the ballot box to be transported to the counting centre where the papers are simply fed into the reading machine.
The point is that if the US has an effective missile defence shield that Russias missiles are useless against them, they have no deterrant to prevent the US attacking them. At the moment there is a balance governed by the threat of mutual destruction but a defence shield will remove this balance and shift power towards the US.
Even if the missile stations being constructed on Russias borders are purely defensive from the US point of view it's still an aggressive act so far as Russia is concerned because it allows the US to attack them at will, or more likely generally bully them into doing what the US wants.
This is really one of the unfair practices of newspapers which I'd like to see pursued further. If I am caught up in a newsworthy event, say a huge fire and if I, staggering from the burning building, tell a journalist what I saw in there and he then just goes off and prints what I've told him then where is my cut of that wealth ?
It's me whos done all the hard work and the journalist has just stolen it and even worse he's then sold it on for profit. I'd like to see the copyright laws strengthened in this area so anything which I have seen is protected and can't be relayed or re-imaged without my say so.
There is no mystery here, Russia doesn't want the US building it's missile defence system practically in there back yard. The US is persisting in it's plan to build it anyway so Russia is flexing her muscles in order to make the US change it's mind.
Yeees, and that would be why the treaty which ended the war was signed in Paris and known as the Treaty Of Paris. Because the French involvement was so insignificant !
I think we're yet to see exactly what Microsofts involvement in the SCO case was and so far as the Novell patent deal goes I think on balance MS paid Novell far more than Novell paid them. As you say Novell is a business and if MS wants to pay them shed loads of money to further their own FUD a little it's probably a good deal for Novell to accept the cash.
I don't know what it's like in the US but if you go for a walk in the country in the UK you'll be lucky to see a single person actually working in the fields at all, even if you walk all day. Apparently in the 1800's there would be as many 40 or 50 people working in every single field at peak times and a dozen or so for most of the year.
If this were true, how would it explain the fact that countries with among the highest labor costs in the world (USA and Canada, to name two) are enormous exporters of food, while lots of countries with low labor costs (the African countries, for example) are net importers?
To answer that point a lot of these 1st world countries throw massive amounts of subsidies at their farmers so that whilst the true cost of producing the food may be more it can be sold a prices below that of it's less well funded competitors. This is done mainly to retain some sort of farming community in 1st world countries.
Yes, try to really understand this vision of yours, on a soul level, and I believe it will be guidance enough for the road ahead but just in case you need a little inspiration here are some pointers.
1) The Earth was habitable for these, assume that they are, near perfect aliens - perhaps call them Angel or something until something happened. Since the Angels are surely perfect it's likely that with a closer inspection you'll see your vision revealed to you that some other agency was involved in ruining the terraforming.
2) Masks are a great idea, they can filter out all the harmful elements in the atmosphere introduced by the Evil Angels and possibly also help communion with the real Angels who must still be out there somewhere watching and judging us. You can also sell masks in a variety of models to suit all pockets.
3) There's a lot of Eco Warriors who are ready to take on any message or warning about the dangers of ruining the eco system, they also like masks and some of them are rich celebrities so I'd suggest targeting this area first. Perhaps build up to the full shocking revelation of our ancient angelic protectors a la Scientology.
Basically I think you've got some powerful elements to work with, all you need is a bit of publicity, some hard work and an evangelical core of first believers. You can probably get onto most daytime TV programmes already if you push the mask angle and the amazing benefits ( not to mention stylish new fashion ) of the mask. You can get onto the Sunday Morning religious nuttery programs by a firm belief in Angels and if you can find any sort of quasi scientific evidence for the atmosphere ( which you surely can ) which can't have been created by natural causes then you'll have scientists and eco warriors sucked in hook line and sinker. I say go for it.
I think the point is that everyone leaves their DNA where ever they go, at bus stops, in pubs, on clothing and so on so most crime scenes, especially any in public areas are going to include an awful lot of peoples DNA.
With everyones DNA on record the first thing the police are going to is check out everyone who's DNA matches that found at the crime scene, potentially an awful lot of people who the police would then have to prove had nothing to do with the crime in order to eliminate them. Essentially any DNA found at the scene is going to be suspect placing a lot of people under suspicion and having to prove their whereabouts, alabis and what have you. It's true one of them may be the guilty party but it runs the risk of leading to very lazy policing and simply swamping the time and resources of the police forces.
The other point is that I can't see how they will be able to tell who has and has not given their DNA to the database in the first place. In the absence of any definitive ID card they will have to rely on things like electoral rolls and passport applications to check individual citizens have actually complied with their orders. The more criminally inclined you are the less likely you are to appear on this radar and the more likely you are to actively avoid having your DNA recorded in the first place. This could lead to a situation where a crime scene contains the DNA of lots of innocent people and the DNA of the actual criminal whose DNA they have no record of, or even worse whoes DNA is similar enough to be matched with someone elses or a relative or something who then mistakenly becomes prime suspect number one.
It's more likely that Labour have put this judge up to saying this so they can then say:
"Oh no, what a horrible plan - we stand firmly against such draconian measures which undermine civil liberties to such an extent. Which is why our marvellous ID card scheme, and the strictly limited and carefully controlled extensions we will propose to the current DNA scheme have none of those problems."
Yes of course you can, you're under no obligation to take any notice of stores alarm systems at all.
The alarm is there to warn the staff in the shop that some of their goods are being taken out of the door with the security tags still active. The store may decide to take action based on that information but you certainly don't have to do anything.
It seems to me more like that the CC employee is employed to stand by the door and ask to see everyones receipts, even people who are under no suspicion of shoplifting.
If a store wishes to detain you under suspicion of shoplifting then they need to have either witnesses who saw you pick up the item and attempt to walk out the shop with it or have video evidence of the same. If they don't have that then they don't have reasonable grounds to suspect you of shoplifting and they are not allowed to detain you.
The store can ask you show them a receipt or to search your bags if they like but you're under no obligation to either show them one or let them search your bags. If they are asking to see your receipt or to search your bag without any eye witness reports that you've actually stolen something then the fact alone that you refuse a request to see a receipt or for your bags to be searched do not form reasonable grounds to suspect you of shoplifting and therefore the store has no grounds to detain you.
In this case the security guard said he had no grounds to suspect the guy of shoplifting but that regardless of that the guy had to comply with his request to show his receipt or the guard wouldn't let him leave the car park. This is clearly illegal behaviour and the guy was right to call the police, he was unlucky to get a moron in a police uniform instead.
The trick is to talk more slowly and much more loudly than you normally do, I'm English and it works for me perfectly well even in countries which don't, claim, to speak English.
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If its any consolation we in Birmingham ( UK ) built a mag-lev between the airport and the railway station back in 1984. I think it might have worked for a little while but then for some reason or other it became unmaintainable and the whole thing is now operated by attaching a cable to one the front of the train and dragging it down the track on a pulley.
The track is only 400M long and the train was only designed to travel at 10mph but the whole thing has been an enormous white elephant and laughing stock virtually from the day it was built. I think it was the worlds first fully operating mag-lev system though.
What your describing is, hopefully, a one off situation. If you're constantly having to work overtime to sort out problems then the problem is really a bigger issue and needs to be sorted out by the business.
Even then I'd still expect to be paid for any extra hours I work.
So what, if you act like a doormat don't be surprised when people walk all over you.
If you really are fired then get another job and let some other sucker take the crap you used to.
Well done, all that hard work really pays off doesn't it. Never mind that you're in the office 60 hours a week and too scared of losing your job to take anything like a holiday.
Personally I like the fact I have a set working week and I can pick or choose if I want to work extra hours ( for extra pay ) without fear of losing my job. I like the month or so of holidays I get a year, I enjoy taking afternoons off and I'm not concerned where my country comes in the big league table of economic superpowers. Working as we do here provides an excellent standard of living which we have maximum time to enjoy.
I'm so happy you have all the money, it must be a real consolation for you.
Of course you were being taken for a ride, it's the companies job to squeeze as much out their employees as they can for as little as possible.
It's your responsibility to realise that if you signed up for 40hours a week working hours then that's how many hours you should do. If you're not getting paid why on Earth would you work, this has always been a mystery to me.
The best situation is where you can manage your time flexibly, do your 40 hours of work at a time which suits both you and the company best.
I really am amazed that you all don't seem to expect overtime for working more hours, this is madness. I live in the UK and I can tell you I would never ever make a habit of working more hours than I was contracted for without expecting overtime and I think thats a fairly attitude here. If you're working for something then they need to pay you for the work, it's a simple as that. I'm not a charity !
Hah, that's what they want you to think. Almost the perfect cover for their fleet of black VTOL super silent jet aircraft ( based on stolen alien tech )
Criminals in the UK ( at least the young up and coming generation of criminals ) are so not bovvered by CCTV and the likes they already film their crimes themselves and post them on YouTube for all the world to see.
From personal experience every crime I have been victim to ( usually bikes being stolen ) have taken place under the eye of CCTV camera and in every case the camera was either turned off, not working or didn't have a tape in it.
POS = Piece Of Shit ?
An even closer analogy would be if the car was in fact a small box built from plastic and containing various chips and fans which allowed it to control viewing screens and sound output devices.
The company which creates the controlling systems for these boxes, lets call these "software", are in the business of writing general software which allows the boxes to operate but also decide to include specific software to allow the viewing screens to display a primitive representation of a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of people throughout the world, which we'll call the World Wide Web. By providing software to access the World Wide Web as part of the general operating software for the boxes this company is placing a huge obstacle in the path of any other companies who wish to sell software to access the web.
I hope that makes things a bit easier to visualise.
Because that would be electronic voting with all the problems of accuracy, reliability and accountability that come with it we're trying to avoid and which doesn't as yet have any benefit to the voter at all except that it's cheaper. It could be argued that voting is the most important thing you can do in a democracy so trying to shave a few pounds or dollars from the cost isn't really a very sensible idea if it means delivering a less effective system.
As I understand it the problem is that humans don't mark the papers correctly which makes it hard for them to be read and processed efficiently.
Wouldn't the simplest answer be to use whatever interface these voting machines have to make it easy for the voters to select their candidates and then just print out the voting slip from the back of the machine in a standard format which can be read electronically easily. The voter then takes the paper from the printer, reads it to check his choices have been correctly entered and then puts his vote in the ballot box to be transported to the counting centre where the papers are simply fed into the reading machine.
The point is that if the US has an effective missile defence shield that Russias missiles are useless against them, they have no deterrant to prevent the US attacking them. At the moment there is a balance governed by the threat of mutual destruction but a defence shield will remove this balance and shift power towards the US.
Even if the missile stations being constructed on Russias borders are purely defensive from the US point of view it's still an aggressive act so far as Russia is concerned because it allows the US to attack them at will, or more likely generally bully them into doing what the US wants.
This is really one of the unfair practices of newspapers which I'd like to see pursued further. If I am caught up in a newsworthy event, say a huge fire and if I, staggering from the burning building, tell a journalist what I saw in there and he then just goes off and prints what I've told him then where is my cut of that wealth ?
It's me whos done all the hard work and the journalist has just stolen it and even worse he's then sold it on for profit. I'd like to see the copyright laws strengthened in this area so anything which I have seen is protected and can't be relayed or re-imaged without my say so.
There is no mystery here, Russia doesn't want the US building it's missile defence system practically in there back yard. The US is persisting in it's plan to build it anyway so Russia is flexing her muscles in order to make the US change it's mind.
Yeees, and that would be why the treaty which ended the war was signed in Paris and known as the Treaty Of Paris. Because the French involvement was so insignificant !
I think we're yet to see exactly what Microsofts involvement in the SCO case was and so far as the Novell patent deal goes I think on balance MS paid Novell far more than Novell paid them. As you say Novell is a business and if MS wants to pay them shed loads of money to further their own FUD a little it's probably a good deal for Novell to accept the cash.
I don't know what it's like in the US but if you go for a walk in the country in the UK you'll be lucky to see a single person actually working in the fields at all, even if you walk all day. Apparently in the 1800's there would be as many 40 or 50 people working in every single field at peak times and a dozen or so for most of the year.
To answer that point a lot of these 1st world countries throw massive amounts of subsidies at their farmers so that whilst the true cost of producing the food may be more it can be sold a prices below that of it's less well funded competitors. This is done mainly to retain some sort of farming community in 1st world countries.
Yes, try to really understand this vision of yours, on a soul level, and I believe it will be guidance enough for the road ahead but just in case you need a little inspiration here are some pointers.
1) The Earth was habitable for these, assume that they are, near perfect aliens - perhaps call them Angel or something until something happened. Since the Angels are surely perfect it's likely that with a closer inspection you'll see your vision revealed to you that some other agency was involved in ruining the terraforming.
2) Masks are a great idea, they can filter out all the harmful elements in the atmosphere introduced by the Evil Angels and possibly also help communion with the real Angels who must still be out there somewhere watching and judging us. You can also sell masks in a variety of models to suit all pockets.
3) There's a lot of Eco Warriors who are ready to take on any message or warning about the dangers of ruining the eco system, they also like masks and some of them are rich celebrities so I'd suggest targeting this area first. Perhaps build up to the full shocking revelation of our ancient angelic protectors a la Scientology.
Basically I think you've got some powerful elements to work with, all you need is a bit of publicity, some hard work and an evangelical core of first believers. You can probably get onto most daytime TV programmes already if you push the mask angle and the amazing benefits ( not to mention stylish new fashion ) of the mask. You can get onto the Sunday Morning religious nuttery programs by a firm belief in Angels and if you can find any sort of quasi scientific evidence for the atmosphere ( which you surely can ) which can't have been created by natural causes then you'll have scientists and eco warriors sucked in hook line and sinker. I say go for it.
I think the point is that everyone leaves their DNA where ever they go, at bus stops, in pubs, on clothing and so on so most crime scenes, especially any in public areas are going to include an awful lot of peoples DNA.
With everyones DNA on record the first thing the police are going to is check out everyone who's DNA matches that found at the crime scene, potentially an awful lot of people who the police would then have to prove had nothing to do with the crime in order to eliminate them. Essentially any DNA found at the scene is going to be suspect placing a lot of people under suspicion and having to prove their whereabouts, alabis and what have you. It's true one of them may be the guilty party but it runs the risk of leading to very lazy policing and simply swamping the time and resources of the police forces.
The other point is that I can't see how they will be able to tell who has and has not given their DNA to the database in the first place. In the absence of any definitive ID card they will have to rely on things like electoral rolls and passport applications to check individual citizens have actually complied with their orders. The more criminally inclined you are the less likely you are to appear on this radar and the more likely you are to actively avoid having your DNA recorded in the first place. This could lead to a situation where a crime scene contains the DNA of lots of innocent people and the DNA of the actual criminal whose DNA they have no record of, or even worse whoes DNA is similar enough to be matched with someone elses or a relative or something who then mistakenly becomes prime suspect number one.
And we don't "vacation" either.
It's more likely that Labour have put this judge up to saying this so they can then say:
"Oh no, what a horrible plan - we stand firmly against such draconian measures which undermine civil liberties to such an extent. Which is why our marvellous ID card scheme, and the strictly limited and carefully controlled extensions we will propose to the current DNA scheme have none of those problems."
Yes of course you can, you're under no obligation to take any notice of stores alarm systems at all.
The alarm is there to warn the staff in the shop that some of their goods are being taken out of the door with the security tags still active. The store may decide to take action based on that information but you certainly don't have to do anything.
It seems to me more like that the CC employee is employed to stand by the door and ask to see everyones receipts, even people who are under no suspicion of shoplifting.
If a store wishes to detain you under suspicion of shoplifting then they need to have either witnesses who saw you pick up the item and attempt to walk out the shop with it or have video evidence of the same. If they don't have that then they don't have reasonable grounds to suspect you of shoplifting and they are not allowed to detain you.
The store can ask you show them a receipt or to search your bags if they like but you're under no obligation to either show them one or let them search your bags. If they are asking to see your receipt or to search your bag without any eye witness reports that you've actually stolen something then the fact alone that you refuse a request to see a receipt or for your bags to be searched do not form reasonable grounds to suspect you of shoplifting and therefore the store has no grounds to detain you.
In this case the security guard said he had no grounds to suspect the guy of shoplifting but that regardless of that the guy had to comply with his request to show his receipt or the guard wouldn't let him leave the car park. This is clearly illegal behaviour and the guy was right to call the police, he was unlucky to get a moron in a police uniform instead.
The trick is to talk more slowly and much more loudly than you normally do, I'm English and it works for me perfectly well even in countries which don't, claim, to speak English.
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It even works in Scotland