Or.....are you saying they listed you as a 1099, and YOU are wanting to say you were an employee? Hard to tell from your sentence. I hope it is not the latter...
Assuming you were being paid as if you were a W-2 employee, why would you want to be a 1099 instead?
Their base pay prior to joining the union? $10/hour, for janitorial work, no benefits. I am making more as an intern right now than they were making as full time employees, and most of them were old enough to be my parents.
It doesn't matter how old they are; what matters is the job description. $10/hour and no benefits sounds pretty reasonable to me for (unskilled) janitorial work, considering that there are probably plenty of people who'd gladly do the same thing for minimum wage.
perhaps this technique is intended for use with blacktop rather than concrete as suggested by the article?
I would imagine it wouldn't work very well with asphalt concrete because the asphalt would coat the titanium particles and block the NOx from getting to them.
Actually, there's a recurring cost for the concrete as well: it doesn't last forever, you know! It lasts longer than asphalt concrete, but it'll still need to be repaved after a few decades.
(At least, it doesn't last forever the way we use it -- if we built like the Romans did, it'd last forever but cost a heck of a lot more.)
The interesting side of this is that people who stay in good shape and are generally ahead of the curve may see some benefits in the premiums they pay.
No they won't. The best anyone can hope for, barring radical policy change on the part of the U.S. government, is that their costs won't go up too much for them to afford.
Good health? Costs go up. Bad health? Costs go up more.
Except they didn't. Nobody's heard of that Nokia thing; everybody's heard of the iPhone. I wonder how the sales numbers of each stack up against each other?
As for your comment, wasn't Diablo 2 better than Diablo? Wasn't WC II better than WC? Wasn't StarCraft better than WC II? Why do you think that Blizzard will fail with Diablo III?
By that logic, WarCraft 3 would have been better than StarCraft. And it wasn't.
So, graphics are more important to you than gameplay? That's a rather shallow attitude.
Graphics are gameplay, at least in this sort of discussion. Imagine if iD had decided to make Doom 3 brightly lit. Would it be the same game? No, of course not! And that's more or less the same thing that's happening here, with Diablo 3.
Or am I committing a crime when I ask for extra napkins at McDonalds?
You are a private citizen, not a public servant. Different rules should apply: a public servant acting in his official capacity should have considerably fewer rights and privileges than a private citizen.
It also mentions "Caribbean," which is a sea rather than a country.
In other words, relax: it's a cartoon; it's not really meant to be educational anyway. They just stuck in whatever rhymed. In case you didn't get it, that was my joke: that Americans didn't care about real geography lessons, but wanted to watch cartoon characters singing songs instead.
By the way, it was made in 1993 (and, according to that article, made a whole bunch more errors than just the ones you or I mentioned).
Maybe it was Portage (Gentoo's Python-based package management system) then? I can imagine it being useful to be able to mess with packages (especially core ones like baselayout) in single-user mode.
This case already had the shitty ruling that Blizzard gets to lord over what other software you're allowed to run on your own computer, just because their (bullshit, ought-to-be-unenforceable) EULA says so. That's a scary precedent too.
I test server hardware and I have found numerous times where a NIC will lock up a 1U machine because of heat issues but it will be totally fine in a bigger machine with better airflow.
Okay, but did the NIC vendor certify that the card would work (or at least, should have worked) with the airflow in the 1U case? It appears that Nvidia did the equivalent.
The mode of failure here didn't manifest itself quickly, like a crash would. Instead, this involves the chip failing over time. it's like the difference, in structural engineering, of a beam failing immediately due to overloading vs. failing later due to metal fatigue.
It really should be the OEMs responsibility for saying "Hey, your card gives out more heat than our laptop design can dissipate. We can't deploy these."
Except that all the OEMs have to go on in order to make that decision is the specs Nvidia gives them. And the specs were wrong!
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Assuming you were being paid as if you were a W-2 employee, why would you want to be a 1099 instead?
It doesn't matter how old they are; what matters is the job description. $10/hour and no benefits sounds pretty reasonable to me for (unskilled) janitorial work, considering that there are probably plenty of people who'd gladly do the same thing for minimum wage.
Weight. If it were in volume, it would be "4 fl oz" instead.
I would imagine it wouldn't work very well with asphalt concrete because the asphalt would coat the titanium particles and block the NOx from getting to them.
Actually, there's a recurring cost for the concrete as well: it doesn't last forever, you know! It lasts longer than asphalt concrete, but it'll still need to be repaved after a few decades.
(At least, it doesn't last forever the way we use it -- if we built like the Romans did, it'd last forever but cost a heck of a lot more.)
Then the Governor congratulates them on a job well done?
No they won't. The best anyone can hope for, barring radical policy change on the part of the U.S. government, is that their costs won't go up too much for them to afford.
Good health? Costs go up. Bad health? Costs go up more.
Except they didn't. Nobody's heard of that Nokia thing; everybody's heard of the iPhone. I wonder how the sales numbers of each stack up against each other?
By that logic, WarCraft 3 would have been better than StarCraft. And it wasn't.
Graphics are gameplay, at least in this sort of discussion. Imagine if iD had decided to make Doom 3 brightly lit. Would it be the same game? No, of course not! And that's more or less the same thing that's happening here, with Diablo 3.
You are a private citizen, not a public servant. Different rules should apply: a public servant acting in his official capacity should have considerably fewer rights and privileges than a private citizen.
It also mentions "Caribbean," which is a sea rather than a country.
In other words, relax: it's a cartoon; it's not really meant to be educational anyway. They just stuck in whatever rhymed. In case you didn't get it, that was my joke: that Americans didn't care about real geography lessons, but wanted to watch cartoon characters singing songs instead.
By the way, it was made in 1993 (and, according to that article, made a whole bunch more errors than just the ones you or I mentioned).
Maybe I'm behind the times, but I thought that AMD just didn't make chipsets at all.
Geography lesson for Americans.
Hey, you agreed to it!
Maybe it was Portage (Gentoo's Python-based package management system) then? I can imagine it being useful to be able to mess with packages (especially core ones like baselayout) in single-user mode.
Holy cow that's awesome! Now, to wait for a PC version...
Perhaps they do that because some boot scripts are written in Python (I'm pretty sure Gentoo is like this)?
This case already had the shitty ruling that Blizzard gets to lord over what other software you're allowed to run on your own computer, just because their (bullshit, ought-to-be-unenforceable) EULA says so. That's a scary precedent too.
Better yet, make it some sort of puzzle mini-game!
Right. It applies to what the U.S. Government can do to everyone, everywhere.
Except that all the OEMs have to go on in order to make that decision is the specs Nvidia gives them. And the specs were wrong!
NO YOU FUCKING DON'T HAVE TO BE IN THE FUCKING COUNTRY!
READ the damn 4th Amendment! It doesn't fucking say "in the country!" It doesn't fucking say "citizens only!"
The 4th Amendment applies to EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE!
It doesn't matter; then they'll just STEAL the damn thing!