Why are just these tiny minority being disciplined? If every other hospital allows free choice, does this one have the authority to without warning start to require it?
1. Because that tiny minority refused to comply... and they aren't being disciplined, they're quitting or being fired for cause or not having their contract renewed.
2. Yes, this one hospital has the authority to require vaccines. They have made it a condition of employment and any company could do the same, no matter how unrelated to their core business it may seem. Also: The nurses were given plenty of warning. Enough that the nurse in TFA could refuse and then file two appeals.
The technology may be different, but the mechanics of our daily lives haven't changed much since the wired telephone, refrigerators, and cars became ubiquitous.
to the Government of Qatar, one of the top producers of fossil fuel in the world, a country were women have no voice, and homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death.
The Government of Qatar may make America's Christian Dominionists jealous, but don't try to use guilt-by-association to smear Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera is a moderate organization that focuses on news and not opinion.
Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man [President George Bush] has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Stephen Colbert said this to President Bush's face at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. The joke that "reality has a well-known liberal bias" has since taken on larger meanings about Republican/Conservative ideas and ideology being divorced from reality and reality being biased towards liberal ideas because liberal ideas are more in tune with facts. See Also: Truthiness
So why am I inventing this socialist utopia with rampant income redistribution? Itâ(TM)s because this is closely analogous to the physics of heat (as Steven Colbert put it, reality has a well know liberal bias).
Socialist utopia with rampant income redistribution = his physics analogy = reality Does the joke make sense now?
You don't have a right to demand that millions of people starve to death so that you can indulge your superstitions.
How did this nonsense get moderated up? The EU has very strict laws regulating GM food that is imported into or grown in the EU. They passed the first law in 1997 and over the years, have only been making them stricter, much to the USA's annoyance.
The current law mandates labeling of GM products and has an opt-out provision for any member State that does not want to allow GM imports. Here's an older list of Countries and municipalities that have banned GMOs: http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-free-regions/list.html Yes, individual states and towns can ban GMOs, even if the Country does not.
With the European example thriving for the last 15 years, I don't see how allowing us Americans a similar legislative and regulatory framework will lead to millions of deaths from starvation.
Saying that GMO is not evil is not the same as condoning Monsanto's actions in court. Strawman much?
Until/unless the two are seperable, GMO will be evil for as long as it enables corporate control of the food supply.
I mean, there are entire countries were farmers cannot save last year's seeds to plant next years crops. This is nothing more than another form of economic rent, made even worse by the fact that it is rent on something that was previously free.
If it was purely a monetary subsidy, why would the trial lawyers be fighting it (since they could get paid either way)?
Subsidies do not have to be direct cash transfers. Tax breaks, liability indemnification, accelerated depreciation, loan guarantees, tariffs, regulatory exemptions, etc etc etc
In this case, the trial lawyers want to sue as many people as possible if a passenger dies, and Virgin is saying that there needs to be legal immunity for all the companies involved in manufacturing and launching.
If States in the USA weren't engaged in a regulatory race to the bottom, Virgin would probably be forced to indemnify its contractors. Instead, I'm guessing New Mexico will pass laws granting immunity to everyone involved, which is a subsidy, no doubt about it.
But this may be what's required to get private space travel off the ground, much like the custom regulatory regime created for the nascent nuclear industry.
Virgin Galactic has signed a lease to become the spaceport's anchor tenant, but may pull out if New Mexico is unable to provide liability protection for manufacturers and part suppliers, similar to legislation already passed by Texas, Colorado, Florida, and Virginia.
Allow me to translate: Virgin Galactic has signed a lease to become the spaceport's anchor tenant, but may pull out if New Mexico is unable to provide liability subsidies for manufacturers and part suppliers, similar to subsidies already passed by Texas, Colorado, Florida, and Virginia.
Virgin is asking to be protected from paying insurance on the full cost of the risk it is creating. I'm not saying I'm against it, just that we should call this "protection" what it is: socializing the risks and privatizing the profits.
Hence, most regulatory actions get settled because these companies are too big to prosecute. If we funded our regulatory bodies like we fund the military, we could afford an army of lawers to keep corporate America from stepping out of line.
"Allegedly" because, even though Google is agreeing not to do something, it isn't admitting that it did anything. This is the regulatory and rhetorical mess that results from settlements with no admission of guilt.
Maybe you meant to say "They won't be able to persuade."
Americans may be dumb and ignorant on matters of domestic and foreign politics, but we feel very strongly about the penny and the dollar. It'll be less painful to shove your dick in a blender than to screw with the penny or the dollar bill.
Actually, it's not unclear. Right in the Mint's website (linked to in the article): "Moreover, pennies can still be used in cash transactions indefinitely with businesses that choose to accept them."
The penny will remain legal tender for as the foreseeable future. As you stated, the only thing happening now is that the mint will no longer be distributing pennies after February 4th, 2013.
If the mint is no longer distributing pennies to the banks, and banks are no longer distributing pennies to business owners, where the fuck are you going to find businesses that choose to accept pennies?
This only went on so long because tech sites use such poor, useless benchmarking methods. Minimum/Average/Maximum FPS, or often just Average/Maximum FPS, are worthless!
Umm... Tech Report has been doing frame latency benchmarking for over a year now. And I'm not sure if they were the first ones to come up with the idea, but I know they're not the only reviewers using that benchmark.
The submitter sounds like they are describing textbook cybersquatting. So alternatively, they can try Domain Name Dispute Resolution https://www.icann.org/en/help/dndr/udrp
Disputes alleged to arise from abusive registrations of domain names (for example, cybersquatting) may be addressed by expedited administrative proceedings that the holder of trademark rights initiates by filing a complaint with an approved dispute-resolution service provider.
You can register [person]sucks.com and shit on them all day long, but you can't expect to register [person].com and keep it.
At the risk of sounding like a Libertarian what you're describing isn't cooperating with the government, it's a mob shakedown.
I don't disagree in principle. But most of those oil concessions were bought ~90 years ago from a Venezuelan dictator who was simultaneously getting his country out from under massive debt and lining his own pockets with kickbacks.
The history of the Americas (south of Mexico) is heavily colored by exploitative behavior on the part of Western Countries or Western Corporations. You can call it a shake down, but fundamentally it is countries taking back their formerly privatized natural resources
If this is the crux of their value proposition, they are fucked. The fact of the matter is, at least 80% of mobile phone users don't even know what "openness" means, and if you can explain it to them, almost none of them will care. You can argue about open source vs. closed source, about how Android isn't really open, about flexibility, even about how open source gets patched faster on the whole.
Explain it to them as configurability and they'll love it. I have yet to buy a phone with enough configurability to truly soften all the rough edges that interfere with usability. Even worse, every few years, when I get a new phone, there is a different set of rough edges not covered by the new phone's configurable options.
Except that the next big multinational that comes along might decide that it's not worth building those assets if the government may simply come along name their own price and take it.
1920: Creole Petroleum Corporation opens up shop in Venezuela 1928: Standard Oil of New Jersey buys CPC 1972: SO of NJ is renamed Exxon 1976: Venezuela nationalizes its oil industry 2007: ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips refuse to allow Venezuela's state-run energy company to assume majority control of a few projects 2007: Venezuela 100% nationalizes ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips' holdings 2012: ExxonMobil gets a fraction of what they were asking in court and arbitration
What your Washington Post article (unsurprisingly) leaves out is that everyone else went along with Venezuela's long term plan. Exxon tried to play hardball and lost.
Keep in mind that there are plenty of independent movie theaters which play older/obscure/foreign movies,
As the movie making industry transitions away from film, they're going to start shutting down the industrial bases that makes and develops film.
This is a HUGE FUCKING PROBLEM because the color correction notes for every film are based on the specific film stock being used and the specific blend of chemicals used by the development house.
There's a lot of work that goes into every reel of film and everyone involved in the business is either retiring or headed for other work. Such is the digital wave.
While I am not defending the Republicans, your comment is somewhat disingenuous. What the Democrats are preparing to do is as dangerous as what the Republicans have in mind -> take out yet another loan in your name, and let it accumulate even more interest.
Interest rates on Treasury bonds have gone negative. For every $100, bond purchasers will be getting back $99. With that kind of interest rate, I'd love it if someone took out "yet another loan in your name, and let it accumulate even more interest"
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If you are sick, don't go out! If you do, you are part of the problem.
By the time you're sick (aka showing symptoms), you've already been infectious for at least a day.
The real solution is to get vaccinated and hope that the pharmaceutical companies guessed correctly about this year's strain.
Foxconn just assembles things that Apple designs and ships the parts to them.
I don't think you understand why everyone manufactures in China.
When Foxconn needs parts, they put in an order to a company down the street
Foxconn's factories are company towns, inside a city made of companies.
Literally, the entire supply chain is there.
Why are just these tiny minority being disciplined? If every other hospital allows free choice, does this one have the authority to without warning start to require it?
1. Because that tiny minority refused to comply... and they aren't being disciplined, they're quitting or being fired for cause or not having their contract renewed.
2. Yes, this one hospital has the authority to require vaccines. They have made it a condition of employment and any company could do the same, no matter how unrelated to their core business it may seem. Also: The nurses were given plenty of warning. Enough that the nurse in TFA could refuse and then file two appeals.
It's quite a different world ten years ago.
The technology may be different, but the mechanics of our daily lives haven't changed much since the wired telephone, refrigerators, and cars became ubiquitous.
A lot of businesses do in fact ban laptops that aren't company-owned.
Exactly. You have a work phone number in exactly the same way that you have a work computer.
I don't really think "but daycare and school" makes for a compelling argument.
They have your work number on file, let them use it.
All the other reasons listed are ones of convienence, not necessity.
to the Government of Qatar, one of the top producers of fossil fuel in the world, a country were women have no voice, and homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death.
The Government of Qatar may make America's Christian Dominionists jealous, but don't try to use guilt-by-association to smear Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera is a moderate organization that focuses on news and not opinion.
Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man [President George Bush] has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Stephen Colbert said this to President Bush's face at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
The joke that "reality has a well-known liberal bias" has since taken on larger meanings about Republican/Conservative ideas and ideology being divorced from reality and reality being biased towards liberal ideas because liberal ideas are more in tune with facts. See Also: Truthiness
So why am I inventing this socialist utopia with rampant income redistribution? Itâ(TM)s because this is closely analogous to the physics of heat (as Steven Colbert put it, reality has a well know liberal bias).
Socialist utopia with rampant income redistribution = his physics analogy = reality
Does the joke make sense now?
You don't have a right to demand that millions of people starve to death so that you can indulge your superstitions.
How did this nonsense get moderated up?
The EU has very strict laws regulating GM food that is imported into or grown in the EU.
They passed the first law in 1997 and over the years, have only been making them stricter, much to the USA's annoyance.
The current law mandates labeling of GM products and has an opt-out provision for any member State that does not want to allow GM imports.
Here's an older list of Countries and municipalities that have banned GMOs: http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-free-regions/list.html
Yes, individual states and towns can ban GMOs, even if the Country does not.
With the European example thriving for the last 15 years, I don't see how allowing us Americans a similar legislative and regulatory framework will lead to millions of deaths from starvation.
Guppies are not being designed.
Their evolution is being guided.
I know it sounds clever, but that's not really what "intelligent design" means when it's being used as a proxy for creationism.
Saying that GMO is not evil is not the same as condoning Monsanto's actions in court. Strawman much?
Until/unless the two are seperable, GMO will be evil for as long as it enables corporate control of the food supply.
I mean, there are entire countries were farmers cannot save last year's seeds to plant next years crops.
This is nothing more than another form of economic rent, made even worse by the fact that it is rent on something that was previously free.
Virgin already has immunity.
They want a law extending that immunity to their suppliers and manufacturers.
This wasn't an issue until several other states passed laws immunizing everyone.
If it was purely a monetary subsidy, why would the trial lawyers be fighting it (since they could get paid either way)?
Subsidies do not have to be direct cash transfers.
Tax breaks, liability indemnification, accelerated depreciation, loan guarantees, tariffs, regulatory exemptions, etc etc etc
In this case, the trial lawyers want to sue as many people as possible if a passenger dies,
and Virgin is saying that there needs to be legal immunity for all the companies involved in manufacturing and launching.
If States in the USA weren't engaged in a regulatory race to the bottom, Virgin would probably be forced to indemnify its contractors.
Instead, I'm guessing New Mexico will pass laws granting immunity to everyone involved, which is a subsidy, no doubt about it.
But this may be what's required to get private space travel off the ground, much like the custom regulatory regime created for the nascent nuclear industry.
Virgin Galactic has signed a lease to become the spaceport's anchor tenant, but may pull out if New Mexico is unable to provide liability protection for manufacturers and part suppliers, similar to legislation already passed by Texas, Colorado, Florida, and Virginia.
Allow me to translate:
Virgin Galactic has signed a lease to become the spaceport's anchor tenant, but may pull out if New Mexico is unable to provide liability subsidies for manufacturers and part suppliers, similar to subsidies already passed by Texas, Colorado, Florida, and Virginia.
Virgin is asking to be protected from paying insurance on the full cost of the risk it is creating.
I'm not saying I'm against it, just that we should call this "protection" what it is: socializing the risks and privatizing the profits.
The FTC's budget was 292 million in 2011.
Google has $40~$50 billion in liquid cash just sitting around an not being spent.
Hence, most regulatory actions get settled because these companies are too big to prosecute.
If we funded our regulatory bodies like we fund the military, we could afford an army of lawers to keep corporate America from stepping out of line.
"Allegedly" because, even though Google is agreeing not to do something, it isn't admitting that it did anything.
This is the regulatory and rhetorical mess that results from settlements with no admission of guilt.
They don't have to persuade.
Maybe you meant to say "They won't be able to persuade."
Americans may be dumb and ignorant on matters of domestic and foreign politics, but we feel very strongly about the penny and the dollar.
It'll be less painful to shove your dick in a blender than to screw with the penny or the dollar bill.
Actually, it's not unclear. Right in the Mint's website (linked to in the article): "Moreover, pennies can still be used in cash transactions indefinitely with businesses that choose to accept them."
The penny will remain legal tender for as the foreseeable future. As you stated, the only thing happening now is that the mint will no longer be distributing pennies after February 4th, 2013.
If the mint is no longer distributing pennies to the banks,
and banks are no longer distributing pennies to business owners,
where the fuck are you going to find businesses that choose to accept pennies?
This only went on so long because tech sites use such poor, useless benchmarking methods. Minimum/Average/Maximum FPS, or often just Average/Maximum FPS, are worthless!
Umm... Tech Report has been doing frame latency benchmarking for over a year now.
And I'm not sure if they were the first ones to come up with the idea, but I know they're not the only reviewers using that benchmark.
The submitter sounds like they are describing textbook cybersquatting.
So alternatively, they can try Domain Name Dispute Resolution
https://www.icann.org/en/help/dndr/udrp
Disputes alleged to arise from abusive registrations of domain names (for example, cybersquatting) may be addressed by expedited administrative proceedings that the holder of trademark rights initiates by filing a complaint with an approved dispute-resolution service provider.
You can register [person]sucks.com and shit on them all day long, but you can't expect to register [person].com and keep it.
At the risk of sounding like a Libertarian what you're describing isn't cooperating with the government, it's a mob shakedown.
I don't disagree in principle.
But most of those oil concessions were bought ~90 years ago from a Venezuelan dictator who was simultaneously getting his country out from under massive debt and lining his own pockets with kickbacks.
The history of the Americas (south of Mexico) is heavily colored by exploitative behavior on the part of Western Countries or Western Corporations.
You can call it a shake down, but fundamentally it is countries taking back their formerly privatized natural resources
If this is the crux of their value proposition, they are fucked. The fact of the matter is, at least 80% of mobile phone users don't even know what "openness" means, and if you can explain it to them, almost none of them will care. You can argue about open source vs. closed source, about how Android isn't really open, about flexibility, even about how open source gets patched faster on the whole.
Explain it to them as configurability and they'll love it.
I have yet to buy a phone with enough configurability to truly soften all the rough edges that interfere with usability.
Even worse, every few years, when I get a new phone, there is a different set of rough edges not covered by the new phone's configurable options.
Starting in 2013, I will no longer use the made-up word "sheeple" which instantly brands me as an underemployed political talk radio addict.
The made-up word "sheeple is what we call a portmanteau, which is itself a made up word
Language can be a real dick when it decides to evolve and you don't.
Except that the next big multinational that comes along might decide that it's not worth building those assets if the government may simply come along name their own price and take it.
1920: Creole Petroleum Corporation opens up shop in Venezuela
1928: Standard Oil of New Jersey buys CPC
1972: SO of NJ is renamed Exxon
1976: Venezuela nationalizes its oil industry
2007: ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips refuse to allow Venezuela's state-run energy company to assume majority control of a few projects
2007: Venezuela 100% nationalizes ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips' holdings
2012: ExxonMobil gets a fraction of what they were asking in court and arbitration
What your Washington Post article (unsurprisingly) leaves out is that everyone else went along with Venezuela's long term plan.
Exxon tried to play hardball and lost.
Keep in mind that there are plenty of independent movie theaters which play older/obscure/foreign movies,
As the movie making industry transitions away from film, they're going to start shutting down the industrial bases that makes and develops film.
This is a HUGE FUCKING PROBLEM because the color correction notes for every film are based on the specific film stock being used and the specific blend of chemicals used by the development house.
There's a lot of work that goes into every reel of film and everyone involved in the business is either retiring or headed for other work.
Such is the digital wave.
While I am not defending the Republicans, your comment is somewhat disingenuous. What the Democrats are preparing to do is as dangerous as what the Republicans have in mind -> take out yet another loan in your name, and let it accumulate even more interest.
Interest rates on Treasury bonds have gone negative.
For every $100, bond purchasers will be getting back $99.
With that kind of interest rate, I'd love it if someone took out "yet another loan in your name, and let it accumulate even more interest"