The wife and I both revoked our organ donor authorizations on our drivers license. While the other one can sign the consent, our personal rules are far more strict than the guidelines the hospital has to follow for organ donors.
When I was a firefighter there were too many times bodies were being prepped for organ donation before parents had even signed the consent forms. We both revoked our organ donation authorizations.
A fish rots from the head and that is particularly true at NASA. NASA used to be an amazing organization driven by engineering, now it's a top-heavy, risk-adverse bunch of middle managers spouting complete nonsense and handing out grandiose gag business cards. It's a mish-mash of gutless leadership and money-sucking contractors.
Colonization of Mars will never be profitable, no company is going to make that kind of investment. How far would we have gotten waiting on corporate sponsorship for the moon landings?
As a former volunteer firefighter if my old team gets a hold of anything that throws any kind of grenade, then no one will be able to light up a cigarette in the privacy of their own home without worrying about a fire grenade coming through the window.
On a practical level the fire robot would have to be able to squeeze through narrow spaces, over furniture, and around debris. I can't think of many household fires I was in where a robot would have been much help. It would have fallen through the floor at a kitchen fire that burned through the floorboards, we had to crawl across the couch to get to the hallway. I can't see how a robot could do that. Not only would it have to manage stairs, it would have to be able to bound up stairs dragging a hose line.
There's also deployment time. When the truck rolls up to a scene, we're ready to go in a few seconds after our boots hit the ground. I don't know how you could unpack a robot, boot it up and get it to the structure any faster than the entry and back up teams could pull the pre-connects. Might be handy in a brush fire, but again the terrain would be an issue.
>There's intelligent people and stupid people in both parties.
Maybe, but the Democrats aren't the ones holding hearings about birth control and not inviting any women. You really want to defend that position? Republicans may not have the corner on the stupid market, but they're definitely the majority shareholder.
If this is indeed the case, the documents aren't authentic.
If they sue someone over their publication, it will open them up to discovery and we'll find out if they're authentic or not, plus everything else that's related.
That's what I did. I was just going to write books but got sucked into freelance journalism. That required photography, so that hobby got elevated to a craft as well. I have a dozen regular customers and several more that orbit in on a less regular schedule.
That doesn't always work anyway. Depending on how your IP agreement is crafted, some employers try to lay claim to anything you do up to two years in the future.
The obvious solution is not to sign a restrictive IP agreement in the first place, or negotiate language changes up front that make it clear what you develop on your own time is your property. I did that, more than once, and turned down jobs when they wouldn't budge.
Both Boisjoly and McDonald were blackballed for speaking out.
I think that's the bigger issue here. NASA really hasn't changed, they're the same arrogant, top heavy, risk adverse organization they bloated into during the 80's. You'd think they would have been humbled by seeing heavy lift moved over to the Russians, but it hasn't dented their attitude one bit.
It's not the lives that were lost, it was the circumstances surrounding the loss and the general lack of accountability afterwards. Engineers who try to sound warnings still will get blackballed. Nothing really changes when you have the problem dictating the solution.
The Koch family has been spending a lot of money to buy influence at colleges and universities, I wonder if this is the payoff? 16 scientists on a Murdoch property.
In all the talk about slippery slopes, can we please keep in mind we're talking about ongoing criminal activity here. This was pervasive, ongoing and sanctioned by the highest levels in management. All those laws about illegal access to computer networks and using bogus credentials to gain access to network services...a lot of those would apply to this case.
I'm not sure why thumping News Corp, or any other corporation, for criminal activity is any kind of slippery slope.
Put a 100K people out of work because a few executives broke the law, yeah that's actual justice!
If you believe in the free market, then believe another news organization would form to take their place. That's the problem with treating corporations like people. If you want to give them collective rights, then the people who work there have to accept collective responsibility.
Your way they get the rights, but no consequences.
It's truly astounding how those "slippery slopes" apparently only go in one direction in your mind.
The world would be a better place without the Murdoch media empire. I'm for risking the slippery slope long enough to put that box of snakes out of business.
To answer that question just ask yourself how people in this country would react if some other country started defending themselves in the U.S. the same way.
And the people who were the problem would say something just like that. An attitude that's part arrogance and part extreme social ineptitude.
Other programmers may not be as intelligent or focused, but that doesn't mean that the lone wolves are good for the company. Projects still get done on time if you fire their know-it-all ass, which is fun by the way, and boosts moral in the whole office. A lead programmer with some tact and decorum who spends a little bit of the day sharing knowledge with his or her peers is a lot better for business and lot less toxic for the office atmosphere.
The introverts were inevitably the most productive, yet ultimately bad for business. If you let them run ahead on applications, you end up being one deep in an app and that gives one person an unhealthy amount of power in the workplace.
In extreme cases I've seen the lone wolf carve out a place for himself and demand more money after squeezing out other staff. That's when it becomes a detriment to the company.
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I want to be able to work on the way while the car handles the driving, so please keep that project going.
We got totally ripped out of our flying cars so at least we could have self-driving cars.
The wife and I both revoked our organ donor authorizations on our drivers license. While the other one can sign the consent, our personal rules are far more strict than the guidelines the hospital has to follow for organ donors.
When I was a firefighter there were too many times bodies were being prepped for organ donation before parents had even signed the consent forms. We both revoked our organ donation authorizations.
And Zune was every bit as good as the iPod.
A fish rots from the head and that is particularly true at NASA. NASA used to be an amazing organization driven by engineering, now it's a top-heavy, risk-adverse bunch of middle managers spouting complete nonsense and handing out grandiose gag business cards. It's a mish-mash of gutless leadership and money-sucking contractors.
Colonization of Mars will never be profitable, no company is going to make that kind of investment. How far would we have gotten waiting on corporate sponsorship for the moon landings?
We need a new NASA with engineering leadership.
As a former volunteer firefighter if my old team gets a hold of anything that throws any kind of grenade, then no one will be able to light up a cigarette in the privacy of their own home without worrying about a fire grenade coming through the window.
On a practical level the fire robot would have to be able to squeeze through narrow spaces, over furniture, and around debris. I can't think of many household fires I was in where a robot would have been much help. It would have fallen through the floor at a kitchen fire that burned through the floorboards, we had to crawl across the couch to get to the hallway. I can't see how a robot could do that. Not only would it have to manage stairs, it would have to be able to bound up stairs dragging a hose line.
There's also deployment time. When the truck rolls up to a scene, we're ready to go in a few seconds after our boots hit the ground. I don't know how you could unpack a robot, boot it up and get it to the structure any faster than the entry and back up teams could pull the pre-connects. Might be handy in a brush fire, but again the terrain would be an issue.
Seems like this is just the kind of break Dwolla needs to bring some much needed competition to the PayPal universe.
The fact the parent gets modded a 5 insightful indicates your facts have no bearing on the discussion.
>There's intelligent people and stupid people in both parties. Maybe, but the Democrats aren't the ones holding hearings about birth control and not inviting any women. You really want to defend that position? Republicans may not have the corner on the stupid market, but they're definitely the majority shareholder.
If this is indeed the case, the documents aren't authentic.
If they sue someone over their publication, it will open them up to discovery and we'll find out if they're authentic or not, plus everything else that's related.
there is a market for books and teaching
That's what I did. I was just going to write books but got sucked into freelance journalism. That required photography, so that hobby got elevated to a craft as well. I have a dozen regular customers and several more that orbit in on a less regular schedule.
I'm still working on books in between.
Ding! Ding! Ding! No more calls, we have a winner!
Why, there might even be some (extremely major) criminal liability on Montsanto's part.
Maybe, but remember they have a former Monsanto staff attorney on the Supreme Court who doesn't see any conflict ruling on Monsanto cases.
The obvious is of course to get a new job.
That doesn't always work anyway. Depending on how your IP agreement is crafted, some employers try to lay claim to anything you do up to two years in the future.
The obvious solution is not to sign a restrictive IP agreement in the first place, or negotiate language changes up front that make it clear what you develop on your own time is your property. I did that, more than once, and turned down jobs when they wouldn't budge.
Both Boisjoly and McDonald were blackballed for speaking out.
I think that's the bigger issue here. NASA really hasn't changed, they're the same arrogant, top heavy, risk adverse organization they bloated into during the 80's. You'd think they would have been humbled by seeing heavy lift moved over to the Russians, but it hasn't dented their attitude one bit.
It's not the lives that were lost, it was the circumstances surrounding the loss and the general lack of accountability afterwards. Engineers who try to sound warnings still will get blackballed. Nothing really changes when you have the problem dictating the solution.
The Koch family has been spending a lot of money to buy influence at colleges and universities, I wonder if this is the payoff? 16 scientists on a Murdoch property.
I love my Murdoch Block plugin. Here's a non-Fox News source, which includes a back-link to their recent accident history.
This will guarantee Microsoft wins every election.
In all the talk about slippery slopes, can we please keep in mind we're talking about ongoing criminal activity here. This was pervasive, ongoing and sanctioned by the highest levels in management. All those laws about illegal access to computer networks and using bogus credentials to gain access to network services...a lot of those would apply to this case.
I'm not sure why thumping News Corp, or any other corporation, for criminal activity is any kind of slippery slope.
Put a 100K people out of work because a few executives broke the law, yeah that's actual justice!
If you believe in the free market, then believe another news organization would form to take their place. That's the problem with treating corporations like people. If you want to give them collective rights, then the people who work there have to accept collective responsibility.
Your way they get the rights, but no consequences.
It's truly astounding how those "slippery slopes" apparently only go in one direction in your mind.
The world would be a better place without the Murdoch media empire. I'm for risking the slippery slope long enough to put that box of snakes out of business.
News Corp should also lose all of its broadcast licenses world-wide.
That would be too much like actual justice. Corporations have the rights of citizens but none of the actual responsibilities if they break the law.
But is what we are doing truly self-defense?
To answer that question just ask yourself how people in this country would react if some other country started defending themselves in the U.S. the same way.
natural aging, can be reversed by an infusion of stem cell rich blood from younger mice.
That explains how Dick Cheney manages to hang on so long; he's been sucking the life force from local villagers at night.
And the people who were the problem would say something just like that. An attitude that's part arrogance and part extreme social ineptitude.
Other programmers may not be as intelligent or focused, but that doesn't mean that the lone wolves are good for the company. Projects still get done on time if you fire their know-it-all ass, which is fun by the way, and boosts moral in the whole office. A lead programmer with some tact and decorum who spends a little bit of the day sharing knowledge with his or her peers is a lot better for business and lot less toxic for the office atmosphere.
The introverts were inevitably the most productive, yet ultimately bad for business. If you let them run ahead on applications, you end up being one deep in an app and that gives one person an unhealthy amount of power in the workplace.
In extreme cases I've seen the lone wolf carve out a place for himself and demand more money after squeezing out other staff. That's when it becomes a detriment to the company.