Until we reach transporters and replicators, there will never be another time in history where technology advanced as fast as it did from 1860 to 1960. This is obvious, so I tagged this "duh".
All the banks in St. Louis do this (yes, all, I have been to all of them) if you cash a check someone wrote you and do not have an account at that bank.
"Yes, the time has to come fire all lawyers who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs!"
Um, no, they have a good reason for using all caps.
But I don't understand this story, the boss can not fire his employee for using all caps in a email? Why not? I guess laws are different in New Zealand, but this has got to be one of the most ridiculous job lawsuits I've ever heard.. Don't think she'd get a dime in the US of A.
FTFA: "She had also acted provocatively in seeking to view complaints laid against her by colleagues."
If I was her boss I probably would have fired her too.
"Something Lockheed makes makes India's planes' maneuverability irrelevant? How so? "
Because our 5th Gen planes are out now and have been for several years. Our first flight of 5th gen planes was in 1997. India's first flight of their 5th gen plane is scheduled for 4 months from now which would just barely squeak by the projected first flight date of 2009. They're hoping to introduce them by 2015, which would put them exactly 10 yrs after we introduced 5th gen planes. Depending on what article you read, aircraft generations are 25 to 30 yrs, so at 10 yrs we're nearly half-way to first flight of 6th generation planes.
Honestly I wonder why anyone else bothers, seems like we run all over the world anyway whenever we're called, if you're a US ally you're pretty safe.
well technically, if you want to go by "the way the world works", there are no laws in nature, biggest and strongest survive and the small and weak are eaten.
But we have laws, and I'm pretty sure one of those laws is adults do not mess with children.
"In Mississippi a while back a lady was accused of selling one of her children. The case got a lot of attention because it turned out selling children was not technically illegal in MS."
Yeah don't remind me, I had the other 3 and I missed that last one so I don't have the whole set and they're worthless now!
"For fuck's sake, the woman is -- at the very least -- a sexual predator. Posing as an underage boy to have sexual conversations with a twelve year old girl? What the fuck?! Not to mention adding on the intent to cause serious detriment by the machinations of her contrived plot to the girl."
Don't forget this was a neighbor girl, a girl they had gone on vacation with, a girl in her daughter's class that her daughter didn't like. W...T...F. Daughter comes home crying saying "Mommy Mommy I don't like this girl!" and mommy said "Oh? Well I'll get her!" and 47-yr old mommy created a fake online teen boy profile for the sole purpose of harassment, even going to far as to having sexual conversations with the 14 yr old. If that's not the most fucked up thing I've ever heard.
If Lori was a man and if Megan had lived Lori would be jail for being a sexual predator.
" an adult should still not be allowed to bully a child without legal consequences."
let me fix that: an adult should not be allowed to harass a child without legal consequences. This should be fairly obvious, we don't have a law against that already? I mean I don't think Lori Drew should serve a life sentence, but I'd be very happy if she served at least 6 months, and several years would not be unreasonable since this was no accident, this was a targeted attack at a particular teenage and Lori spent quite some time harassing the child, even going to far to pretend to be a child herself.
How is it that an adult harassed a child to the point of committing suicide and all we could throw at her is a TOS violation? Men just trying to have sex with teenage girls get jail time, but succeeding in coercing suicide gets nothing?
"Another laugh out loud moment. This thread delivers."
actually the whole idea delivers:
THE GUY HAS NEVER BUILT ONE, this is all just a concept in his head: "Given that the one-off prototype is to cost $100k, and they have the potential for a *huge* amount of mass production, I don't think it's all that unrealistic. I'd still like to see how they handle in the real world, of course, but hey, that's why you give funding to build prototypes.;)"
" they assume that the cost of making roads is 100% laying down asphalt. "
not really. RTFA: http://www.solarroadways.com/The%20Numbers.htm "The average cost of asphalt roads in 2006 was roughly $16 per square foot. The cost does not include maintenance (pot hole repair, repainting lines, etc.) or snow/ice removal. The average lane width is 12 feet, so a 4 lane highway would be 12' (width per lane) x 4 (lanes) x 5280' (one mile) = 253440 square feet. Multiply this by $16 per square foot and your one-mile stretch of asphalt highway will cost $4,055,040.00 and will last an average of seven years.
We plan to design the Solar Roadwaysâto last at least 21 years (three times that of asphalt roads), at which time the panels would need to be refurbished. Adding no additional cost to the current asphalt system, this will allow us to invest about $48 ($16 x 3) per square foot. This means that if each individual panel can be made for no more than $6912.00, then the Solar Roadwayâ can be built for the same cost as current asphalt roads. However, asphalt roads don't give you anything back."
Why not make solar roofs above the roadways? Now you have nothing driving on them and they won't get as dirty as a road would.
Of course then you still have all the costs of the roads + cost of raised solar panels.
oh... they answered my question: "Wouldn't it make more sense to just build canopies over the roads to hold the solar panels? Or just place solar panels on the north side of the roads, facing the sun? That way, we wouldn't have to be able to drive on them?
No. It would be incredibly expensive as you would still have to pay for our current asphalt roads. We plan to use the money already budgeted for roads for the replacement Solar Roadways. If we still had to build current roads plus the canopies or side panels, the cost would likely be so high that taxes would have to be raised to cover it. You would also lose most of the features of the Solar Roadways, such as being lit by LED's for safer night driving. The side panel idea would do nothing to keep the roads free of snow and ice, so northern cities would still have the removal expense and the accidents caused by the unsafe road conditions. Many of the other features would be lost too, such as saving the lives of millions of animals, a self-healing, decentralized power grid, all aspects of an intelligent road: reporting in with potential problems, reducing crime and terrorism, etc.
Ah they used terrorism! The instant govt money buzzword since 2001! That'll get them money.
Exactly how is the electricity going to work? Am I getting free electricity? I mean if my taxes paid for it, I should get it free, right? Or huge discount?
"I'm convinced this guy has a big idea (that's worth exploring), and somehow convinced the DoT to give him some money, but he'll be unable to produce it."
Agreed. I'm just glad it was only 100k and not 100 million.
For some reason I recall hearing about using solar panels in roads 10+ yrs ago, think it was in popular science, but it was deemed laughable because it was cost prohibitive and we lacked a clear material that could withstand thousands of vehicles daily.
"That's the exact reason I chose a blackberry over the iPhone; tactile buttons."
EXACTLY. I'm right there with you. I saw friends with iPhones and they look great, but you really have to stare at the darn thing to send a text. I figure it this way: if you can not send a readable sentence with your eyes closed then the phone is worthless for texting. You can do that with blackberries but not with iPhones.
That said I'm glad they have this law. If you're so stupid that you stare down at your iPhone for 10 seconds to send a text and you kill someone you deserve some time in jail. However if you're like the rest of us and type a character on your blackberry in less than a second, check the road, type another character, check road, etc then you'll never be affected by this law... unless a iPhone user hits you.
"Have you ever had to look at your dash to change the air conditioner or flip radio stations? God forbid if you drove into a new area and needed to scan for a new station."
Sure, but that takes a second, if that.
I'm more worried about GPS. Every GPS I've used has taken forever to type in an address, much more difficult than sending a txt. Are they going to extend this law to using GPS?
"I recently replaced my old laptop. The owner of my company heard about this and offered to reimburse me for it, since he knows I have and will continue to do company work on my own hardware. I'd like the extra $1,250, but I think if I accept his offer that legally he has the right to any data on it "
No, why did you think that? They didn't buy the laptop for you and hand it to you and say "this is your company laptop", you bought a laptop yourself, put all of your own software and hardware into it, and the company offered to reimburse you for it. Did they say "this is now our laptop, and when/if you leave it's ours"? I'd get it in writing just to make sure, I could see that as being a potential problem, especially if they document it somewhere "reimburse XYZ for laptop", someone might come looking for it someday.
"receive the $1250 as a simple bonus. Have them write a letter backing that up."
Agreed. Helps the company really because they don't have to pay for the software or worry about licensing, if you have unlicensed software on there they can say "Really? We wouldn't know, it's not company property."
In fact I'd approach it like that, I'd tell'em "Hey Boss just to make the paperwork easier so you don't have to keep track of the Office, Vista, Photoshop, etc licenses on my laptop can we write it up as a $1250 bonus? That way there isn't a $1250 check for a laptop and the company would not be responsible for keeping track of the software licenses."
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"Where is my flying car?"
Even that wouldn't cut it, you're still flying and it's still a car.
Living from 1880 to 1960 meant his grandmother started with horses and trains to ending with man nearly entering space (missed it by just 1 year). She saw cars and planes invented and succeed, going from kitty hawk to 4,000 mph jet aircraft and 160mph production cars, and medical technology went from hacksaws and bloodletting to penicillin, aspirin and bandaids.
Until we reach transporters and replicators, there will never be another time in history where technology advanced as fast as it did from 1860 to 1960. This is obvious, so I tagged this "duh".
"to call these people asshats would do asshats everywhere a disservice."
Can we just call Bank of America an asshat?
"In the bank's defense, how do they know it is really him, and not some other man with no hands just pretending to be him? Yeah, that's pretty weak."
I'm pretty sure an armless man cashing fake checks would be caught red handed.
Thanks! I'll be here all week!
All the banks in St. Louis do this (yes, all, I have been to all of them) if you cash a check someone wrote you and do not have an account at that bank.
"Yes, the time has to come fire all lawyers who use ALL CAPS when writing their contracts and EULAs!"
Um, no, they have a good reason for using all caps.
But I don't understand this story, the boss can not fire his employee for using all caps in a email? Why not? I guess laws are different in New Zealand, but this has got to be one of the most ridiculous job lawsuits I've ever heard.. Don't think she'd get a dime in the US of A.
FTFA: "She had also acted provocatively in seeking to view complaints laid against her by colleagues."
If I was her boss I probably would have fired her too.
"But is it orange?"
Yep, and it's 3 yrs old. Moving on.
"Something Lockheed makes makes India's planes' maneuverability irrelevant? How so? "
Because our 5th Gen planes are out now and have been for several years. Our first flight of 5th gen planes was in 1997. India's first flight of their 5th gen plane is scheduled for 4 months from now which would just barely squeak by the projected first flight date of 2009. They're hoping to introduce them by 2015, which would put them exactly 10 yrs after we introduced 5th gen planes. Depending on what article you read, aircraft generations are 25 to 30 yrs, so at 10 yrs we're nearly half-way to first flight of 6th generation planes.
Honestly I wonder why anyone else bothers, seems like we run all over the world anyway whenever we're called, if you're a US ally you're pretty safe.
"In closing, you are a miserable piece of shit and not one single person worth a damn would miss your ignorant ass if you were gone. Fuck you."
tell me how you really feel, stop holding back, give it to me straight i can take it!
"It's just how the world works."
well technically, if you want to go by "the way the world works", there are no laws in nature, biggest and strongest survive and the small and weak are eaten.
But we have laws, and I'm pretty sure one of those laws is adults do not mess with children.
she's already lost everything, she lost her printing business and her husband lost his job as a real estate agent.
oh.... i see what you did here....
"I am sure that eventually the horrible wrong she committed will be balanced - Karma has a way of working things out !"
...... I mean, seriously? So, what are you suggesting? If you were to create your own legal system, would bad karma be the sentences?
Seriously?
"In Mississippi a while back a lady was accused of selling one of her children. The case got a lot of attention because it turned out selling children was not technically illegal in MS."
Yeah don't remind me, I had the other 3 and I missed that last one so I don't have the whole set and they're worthless now!
"For fuck's sake, the woman is -- at the very least -- a sexual predator. Posing as an underage boy to have sexual conversations with a twelve year old girl? What the fuck?! Not to mention adding on the intent to cause serious detriment by the machinations of her contrived plot to the girl."
Don't forget this was a neighbor girl, a girl they had gone on vacation with, a girl in her daughter's class that her daughter didn't like. W...T...F. Daughter comes home crying saying "Mommy Mommy I don't like this girl!" and mommy said "Oh? Well I'll get her!" and 47-yr old mommy created a fake online teen boy profile for the sole purpose of harassment, even going to far as to having sexual conversations with the 14 yr old. If that's not the most fucked up thing I've ever heard.
If Lori was a man and if Megan had lived Lori would be jail for being a sexual predator.
"I'm not so sure that the 19 year old's...."
what 19 yr old? Lori Drew is 40+, and she's admitted to everything to police, there pretty much was no one else responsible.
" an adult should still not be allowed to bully a child without legal consequences."
let me fix that: an adult should not be allowed to harass a child without legal consequences. This should be fairly obvious, we don't have a law against that already? I mean I don't think Lori Drew should serve a life sentence, but I'd be very happy if she served at least 6 months, and several years would not be unreasonable since this was no accident, this was a targeted attack at a particular teenage and Lori spent quite some time harassing the child, even going to far to pretend to be a child herself.
How is it that an adult harassed a child to the point of committing suicide and all we could throw at her is a TOS violation? Men just trying to have sex with teenage girls get jail time, but succeeding in coercing suicide gets nothing?
"Another laugh out loud moment. This thread delivers."
;)"
actually the whole idea delivers: THE GUY HAS NEVER BUILT ONE, this is all just a concept in his head:
"Given that the one-off prototype is to cost $100k, and they have the potential for a *huge* amount of mass production, I don't think it's all that unrealistic. I'd still like to see how they handle in the real world, of course, but hey, that's why you give funding to build prototypes.
W....T....F.... and he's no one, just some electrical engineer that use to teach a few classes at ITT and was a boy scout and likes to play on John Deere tractors. Guy is a few cards short of a full deck, and our govt just gave him $100,000???
" they assume that the cost of making roads is 100% laying down asphalt. "
not really. RTFA: http://www.solarroadways.com/The%20Numbers.htm
"The average cost of asphalt roads in 2006 was roughly $16 per square foot. The cost does not include maintenance (pot hole repair, repainting lines, etc.) or snow/ice removal. The average lane width is 12 feet, so a 4 lane highway would be 12' (width per lane) x 4 (lanes) x 5280' (one mile) = 253440 square feet. Multiply this by $16 per square foot and your one-mile stretch of asphalt highway will cost $4,055,040.00 and will last an average of seven years.
We plan to design the Solar Roadwaysâto last at least 21 years (three times that of asphalt roads), at which time the panels would need to be refurbished. Adding no additional cost to the current asphalt system, this will allow us to invest about $48 ($16 x 3) per square foot. This means that if each individual panel can be made for no more than $6912.00, then the Solar Roadwayâ can be built for the same cost as current asphalt roads. However, asphalt roads don't give you anything back."
Why not make solar roofs above the roadways? Now you have nothing driving on them and they won't get as dirty as a road would.
Of course then you still have all the costs of the roads + cost of raised solar panels.
oh... they answered my question:
"Wouldn't it make more sense to just build canopies over the roads to hold the solar panels? Or just place solar panels on the north side of the roads, facing the sun? That way, we wouldn't have to be able to drive on them?
No. It would be incredibly expensive as you would still have to pay for our current asphalt roads. We plan to use the money already budgeted for roads for the replacement Solar Roadways. If we still had to build current roads plus the canopies or side panels, the cost would likely be so high that taxes would have to be raised to cover it. You would also lose most of the features of the Solar Roadways, such as being lit by LED's for safer night driving. The side panel idea would do nothing to keep the roads free of snow and ice, so northern cities would still have the removal expense and the accidents caused by the unsafe road conditions. Many of the other features would be lost too, such as saving the lives of millions of animals, a self-healing, decentralized power grid, all aspects of an intelligent road: reporting in with potential problems, reducing crime and terrorism, etc.
Ah they used terrorism! The instant govt money buzzword since 2001! That'll get them money.
Exactly how is the electricity going to work? Am I getting free electricity? I mean if my taxes paid for it, I should get it free, right? Or huge discount?
"I'm convinced this guy has a big idea (that's worth exploring), and somehow convinced the DoT to give him some money, but he'll be unable to produce it."
Agreed. I'm just glad it was only 100k and not 100 million.
For some reason I recall hearing about using solar panels in roads 10+ yrs ago, think it was in popular science, but it was deemed laughable because it was cost prohibitive and we lacked a clear material that could withstand thousands of vehicles daily.
"My idea is to put a super tough material over the top and we'll have dealt with the wear and tear."
Transparent Aluminium
"That's the exact reason I chose a blackberry over the iPhone; tactile buttons."
EXACTLY. I'm right there with you. I saw friends with iPhones and they look great, but you really have to stare at the darn thing to send a text. I figure it this way: if you can not send a readable sentence with your eyes closed then the phone is worthless for texting. You can do that with blackberries but not with iPhones.
That said I'm glad they have this law. If you're so stupid that you stare down at your iPhone for 10 seconds to send a text and you kill someone you deserve some time in jail. However if you're like the rest of us and type a character on your blackberry in less than a second, check the road, type another character, check road, etc then you'll never be affected by this law... unless a iPhone user hits you.
"Have you ever had to look at your dash to change the air conditioner or flip radio stations? God forbid if you drove into a new area and needed to scan for a new station."
Sure, but that takes a second, if that.
I'm more worried about GPS. Every GPS I've used has taken forever to type in an address, much more difficult than sending a txt. Are they going to extend this law to using GPS?
"I'm not one of the "younger" audience. I'm 37. I grew up on TV. "
"(37-year-old) Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers - as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building."
"The best of iQor's front-line call-center workers make more than $100,000 per year."
Yeah but it looks like they outsourced their CEO
"I recently replaced my old laptop. The owner of my company heard about this and offered to reimburse me for it, since he knows I have and will continue to do company work on my own hardware. I'd like the extra $1,250, but I think if I accept his offer that legally he has the right to any data on it "
No, why did you think that? They didn't buy the laptop for you and hand it to you and say "this is your company laptop", you bought a laptop yourself, put all of your own software and hardware into it, and the company offered to reimburse you for it. Did they say "this is now our laptop, and when/if you leave it's ours"? I'd get it in writing just to make sure, I could see that as being a potential problem, especially if they document it somewhere "reimburse XYZ for laptop", someone might come looking for it someday.
"receive the $1250 as a simple bonus. Have them write a letter backing that up."
Agreed. Helps the company really because they don't have to pay for the software or worry about licensing, if you have unlicensed software on there they can say "Really? We wouldn't know, it's not company property."
In fact I'd approach it like that, I'd tell'em "Hey Boss just to make the paperwork easier so you don't have to keep track of the Office, Vista, Photoshop, etc licenses on my laptop can we write it up as a $1250 bonus? That way there isn't a $1250 check for a laptop and the company would not be responsible for keeping track of the software licenses."