year ago i worked in a pathology lab, and i can atest to the fact the medical field is populated with a lot of highly trained morons. many times the application of these treatments aren't done by someone with enough brain power to understand whats actually happened.
If it wasn't so criminal it'd be funny the way global warmers shrilly screech about big oil paying people off, yet the academics are easily their equal when it comes to gaining funds through unethical means. in the last 15 years they have definately cottoned on to over playing a threat as a means of gaining grant money.
while i agree with you 100%, this approach doesn't always work. When you ask about hours, but can underestimate the hours and play down the over time. and if your a star candidate that they really want, they won't care if you don't like the over time because they will just offer you the job and try work you like a dog anyway.
I've fought the over time battle before. I got called into the managers office and was told there was no more over time, my response was "sweet so i don't need to come in this weekend?", no no you still need to come in. i blinked for a moment and then asked point blank "do you expect me to work without pay?" to which i recieved a talk about how i'm being put on a salary (which was exactly the same as my wage).
starting the weekend i never answered my phone after hours if it was the work number, and never showed for anything after hours even if i was asked, and i was always at my desk dead on time and out the door right on 5:30pm. while i was at work i still put in the same effort as before so as to not give management any ammo against me.
and you know what? they NEVER said a word about me ignoring phone calls or over time requests. i really expected them to say something the first few times i failed to show up on a saturday, but they never said boo about it. I think basiclly once i called their bluff they gave up on the idea.
i call straw man. creationists and global warming skeptics are too different groups, and this wasn't a hoax it was a mistake in a report people were making important desicions on.
and this wasn't "careful science" it was just plain careless and sloppy.
and thats just the problem, they rely on models, which are hopeless (i write software that produces resource industry models for a living, so i know some of the pit falls). let me put it to you this way - the weather man can't predict the weather for the comming week. but for some reason you think they can predict the weather 100 years into the future accurately?
simplistic i know but it has to make you think maybe they have it wrong?
you rant about science, and yet you seem totally unwilling to question the UN report in the slightest even with such an amature hour mistake in it. you have to wonder what other assumptions they are using based on unscientific source (this wasn't a typo btw, it was a quote from a 2nd hand source)
when you are releasing a document what you want people to base spending TRILLIONS of dollars on, this is unacceptable. I'm betting this was a case of it actualy being proof read, and the reader being so caught up in the fever of global warming religion, they didn't think anything of such a wild claim. and that's typical of this fad, where you don't need to sanity check anything if it's linked to global warming.
so just aim the flat tax at the highest level acceptable to low income earners? i agree though that just flat tax on earnings isn't the total solution, earnings on shares not tied up in retirement should be treated just like income. just like larry and serge are a prime example of how the system fails.
that would be fantastic if we could opt out of government programs here in australia. I'm one of those people the current government keeps insisting is one of the "rich", but when i'm bearly able to afford to buy a house to live in it hardly feels like it.
i've worked hard my entire life, and will more then likely NEVER call on social security of any kind. i pay for private health cover as well. seems so unfair that i have to support all these blood suckers on long term welfare.
unless your an expert on every society and culture in the world you can't tell shit about what a given group of people are going to do. there are cultural influences in how a group of people react that greatly influence how they will react to a situation. haiti for example has a long history of violence and unrest, so it's no suprise there's lots of bottom feeders there willing to shoot at people helping them.
Morality in the face of danger is what makes some people noble, and others scum. you are dead wrong that "everyone" will act like this when faced with hunger and thirst.
err no it's not. my whole point is that nvidia do a hell of a lot more then just patent stuff, where all rambus does is sue people based on overly broad patents which shouldn't have been granted in the first place. if you think back far enough rambus hate started way back in the mid 90's when they sat on JEDEC, took the idea's people talked about during meetings and patented them.
you don't seem to understand the difference between a patent and a chip design. not only that nvidia write the drivers and do the marketing. they PRODUCE something of value. rambus does not.
depends on your patent, if you were granted a patent on the idea of time travel alone then yes your a patent trolling bastard. if you came up with an entirely new method of time travel that no one has ever thought of and you license that idea out to people or build the product yourself, then thats fair.
just because criminals might get hold of something it's not a valid arguement for banning something. criminals have guns to, should we take those off cops? then you'll have cops without guns and crooks with them.
I'm all for giving police more tools to use against crooks, however there is a glaring fault with this proposal - disabling the car also means loss of control. so if you have a police chase and the cops use this thing, suddenly the only thing driving the car is it's own momentum which makes it more dangerous then the criminal driving it since he atleast still wants to live, and so will try avoid on comming traffic.
this is even worse then road spikes since taking out the tyres atleast slows the vehicle down a lot. this thing could only be used after the cops have blocked off traffic and there's no chance of the car running into anything.
it was proven enough for a jury to find her guilty, and thats all the judge needs to know. frankly cutting the 2 million down to 54k is a gift horse and shouldn't in the mouth you look. if it was me and i'd been dragged all over the courts i'd be taking that with a smile just to see the end to the whole damn affair.
here's the thing - something that's genuinely new and required real effort like H264 to develop, patenting it is a valid use for the patent system. and if you look at the licensing terms for h264 is insanely fair and cheap - your looking at only $100,000 for a service with 1,000,000 subscribers, and thats only if your a commercial entity. i dare say if your running a website that has a subscription of over a million people you can afford $100,000 for the core technology that under pins your operation. if you can't, Your Doing It Wrong.
it's all about the rules man, are you crazy! personal judgement is like a four letter word these days, under no circumstances should anyone be allowed to use their brain. even if the rules are horrifyingly stupid, they must be obeyed or we will have sauce on ice cream and cats and dogs living together!
don't complain american is full of dumb fat lazy people when the kids of today spend almost a full working day glued to a monitor, with their brain in park.
and you know what, Susan Boyle has sold millions of cd's on the back of one damn song. your going to need to come up with a better example then that. remmeber apple doesn't give 2 shits as long as it's selling iphones.
DID YOU EVEN READ YOUR OWN DAMN LINK?!!
"Under the ECPA it is relatively easy for a governmental agency to demand service providers hand over consumer data that has been stored on servers."
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year ago i worked in a pathology lab, and i can atest to the fact the medical field is populated with a lot of highly trained morons. many times the application of these treatments aren't done by someone with enough brain power to understand whats actually happened.
If it wasn't so criminal it'd be funny the way global warmers shrilly screech about big oil paying people off, yet the academics are easily their equal when it comes to gaining funds through unethical means. in the last 15 years they have definately cottoned on to over playing a threat as a means of gaining grant money.
analogies are for people too dumb to grasp the real data...
I've fought the over time battle before. I got called into the managers office and was told there was no more over time, my response was "sweet so i don't need to come in this weekend?", no no you still need to come in. i blinked for a moment and then asked point blank "do you expect me to work without pay?" to which i recieved a talk about how i'm being put on a salary (which was exactly the same as my wage).
starting the weekend i never answered my phone after hours if it was the work number, and never showed for anything after hours even if i was asked, and i was always at my desk dead on time and out the door right on 5:30pm. while i was at work i still put in the same effort as before so as to not give management any ammo against me.
and you know what? they NEVER said a word about me ignoring phone calls or over time requests. i really expected them to say something the first few times i failed to show up on a saturday, but they never said boo about it. I think basiclly once i called their bluff they gave up on the idea.
and this wasn't "careful science" it was just plain careless and sloppy.
simplistic i know but it has to make you think maybe they have it wrong?
you rant about science, and yet you seem totally unwilling to question the UN report in the slightest even with such an amature hour mistake in it. you have to wonder what other assumptions they are using based on unscientific source (this wasn't a typo btw, it was a quote from a 2nd hand source)
when you are releasing a document what you want people to base spending TRILLIONS of dollars on, this is unacceptable. I'm betting this was a case of it actualy being proof read, and the reader being so caught up in the fever of global warming religion, they didn't think anything of such a wild claim. and that's typical of this fad, where you don't need to sanity check anything if it's linked to global warming.
so just aim the flat tax at the highest level acceptable to low income earners? i agree though that just flat tax on earnings isn't the total solution, earnings on shares not tied up in retirement should be treated just like income. just like larry and serge are a prime example of how the system fails.
i've worked hard my entire life, and will more then likely NEVER call on social security of any kind. i pay for private health cover as well. seems so unfair that i have to support all these blood suckers on long term welfare.
unless your an expert on every society and culture in the world you can't tell shit about what a given group of people are going to do. there are cultural influences in how a group of people react that greatly influence how they will react to a situation. haiti for example has a long history of violence and unrest, so it's no suprise there's lots of bottom feeders there willing to shoot at people helping them.
Morality in the face of danger is what makes some people noble, and others scum. you are dead wrong that "everyone" will act like this when faced with hunger and thirst.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambus
you don't seem to understand the difference between a patent and a chip design. not only that nvidia write the drivers and do the marketing. they PRODUCE something of value. rambus does not.
depends on your patent, if you were granted a patent on the idea of time travel alone then yes your a patent trolling bastard. if you came up with an entirely new method of time travel that no one has ever thought of and you license that idea out to people or build the product yourself, then thats fair.
just because criminals might get hold of something it's not a valid arguement for banning something. criminals have guns to, should we take those off cops? then you'll have cops without guns and crooks with them.
this is even worse then road spikes since taking out the tyres atleast slows the vehicle down a lot. this thing could only be used after the cops have blocked off traffic and there's no chance of the car running into anything.
it was proven enough for a jury to find her guilty, and thats all the judge needs to know. frankly cutting the 2 million down to 54k is a gift horse and shouldn't in the mouth you look. if it was me and i'd been dragged all over the courts i'd be taking that with a smile just to see the end to the whole damn affair.
lol. i'd never heard of daily motion before, so it's chances of rolling youtube are slim to none, especially based on the back of h264 vs theora.
here's the thing - something that's genuinely new and required real effort like H264 to develop, patenting it is a valid use for the patent system. and if you look at the licensing terms for h264 is insanely fair and cheap - your looking at only $100,000 for a service with 1,000,000 subscribers, and thats only if your a commercial entity. i dare say if your running a website that has a subscription of over a million people you can afford $100,000 for the core technology that under pins your operation. if you can't, Your Doing It Wrong.
it's all about the rules man, are you crazy! personal judgement is like a four letter word these days, under no circumstances should anyone be allowed to use their brain. even if the rules are horrifyingly stupid, they must be obeyed or we will have sauce on ice cream and cats and dogs living together!
don't complain american is full of dumb fat lazy people when the kids of today spend almost a full working day glued to a monitor, with their brain in park.
and you know what, Susan Boyle has sold millions of cd's on the back of one damn song. your going to need to come up with a better example then that. remmeber apple doesn't give 2 shits as long as it's selling iphones.
DID YOU EVEN READ YOUR OWN DAMN LINK?!! "Under the ECPA it is relatively easy for a governmental agency to demand service providers hand over consumer data that has been stored on servers."
clearly you didn't read my post at all Mr knee jerk.