I would think the folks of Three Mile Island would identify most although that one was contained. I live and work near Hanford, Washington which incidentally has a graphite reactor like Cherynobyl. This piece has an extra poignancy.
Running about 11-13 Roegnen around here I see those figures os hundreds and go, "Oh boy!". Don't go stirring up the dust around that place and take an internal deposition of nasty stuff. Yet, hauling ass on a bike and stay ahead of the wake and you would minimize exposure in a sort of way that would make a U.S. Rad Tech. freak purple twinkies.
Closest equivalent in the U.S. would be to do a tour of an old nuclear missile silo.
It seems the overarching policy of no private material at work is an increasing trend by businesses. I'm sure they don't talk about the flipside of no work on your pesonal equipment so there's a wonderful opportunity for passive resistance.
Politely smile and when they try and call you on your cell phone after hours, home phone, or send a letter to your home you politely remind them that the policy works both ways. No work on anything personal.
This is of course if they want to play the black and white, job & personal life game. Seems to me a "career" is a give and take and if they want to take away something that makes you a better employee that doesn't punch out at 5 p.m. that they'll rethink the Draconian policy.
Fragmentation is the rule now with our options to get TV. However with the increasing ability for smaller cities to get locals via Dish Network increases the pluses for it. Only time I've ever lost signal is when a giant hail storm super cell came by and I was far more worried about my windows being broken than watching TV. The shift likely will continue towards dish technology because of the inherently cheaper infrastructure of a dish vs. all the cable and fiber a cable company has to lay and maintain. The question for me is do you want that local cable access channel or not.
Mom had a laptop that the CPU fan died on. I found the part number after considerable frustration, but Gateway refused to sell it to me saying that they have to replace it. This was akin to telling a car owner they have to have their windhsield wipers replaced at the dealer....oh and it's 2 hours labor to install those wipers at $75 an hour. The final salt in the wound was that I'd have to sign off that they might toast the hard drive in the process.
No way. Dudette Mom, you'd getting a Dell and I told Gateway to take a flying leap with your dwindling market share.
Why not change their name to X, ACME, or WeDontSpy, or SlashDotSux? They will still get Slashdotted, gain a little press, and make AdAware and the other companies to add one more line of code.
Why not setup accross the street from their HQ with trebuches and fling the corpses of spammers through the front window? No? OK how about actual cans of SPAM?
How about if we just mock the hell out of the relative few people that buy from these sources. I mean, point and laugh at them. I met one once, "I wish they'd do way with SPAM....except the home mortgage ones. I like those." I looked at him and laughed my ass off, "You're an idiot! Your one answer to an e-mail made it so three million other people got an unwanted e-mail. Friends don't let friends respond to SPAM." If I could have figured a way to contact his family members I would have shamed him more!
I've specifically said no to the various acceptances to their latest terms of service and expect my account will expire in the next couple of days. I'm wondering if enough others have performed the same civil disobedience and we'll show up as a blip on their user radar.
Regardless, I'm going to try my account again next week and see if they've actually locked out my account and then raise a stink if they have...or force me to accept.
I'm not usually an activist, but this issue of police getting information without a warrant is a big problems as we increasingly live and work as netizens.
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I would think the folks of Three Mile Island would identify most although that one was contained. I live and work near Hanford, Washington which incidentally has a graphite reactor like Cherynobyl. This piece has an extra poignancy. Running about 11-13 Roegnen around here I see those figures os hundreds and go, "Oh boy!". Don't go stirring up the dust around that place and take an internal deposition of nasty stuff. Yet, hauling ass on a bike and stay ahead of the wake and you would minimize exposure in a sort of way that would make a U.S. Rad Tech. freak purple twinkies. Closest equivalent in the U.S. would be to do a tour of an old nuclear missile silo.
It seems the overarching policy of no private material at work is an increasing trend by businesses. I'm sure they don't talk about the flipside of no work on your pesonal equipment so there's a wonderful opportunity for passive resistance. Politely smile and when they try and call you on your cell phone after hours, home phone, or send a letter to your home you politely remind them that the policy works both ways. No work on anything personal. This is of course if they want to play the black and white, job & personal life game. Seems to me a "career" is a give and take and if they want to take away something that makes you a better employee that doesn't punch out at 5 p.m. that they'll rethink the Draconian policy.
Fragmentation is the rule now with our options to get TV. However with the increasing ability for smaller cities to get locals via Dish Network increases the pluses for it. Only time I've ever lost signal is when a giant hail storm super cell came by and I was far more worried about my windows being broken than watching TV. The shift likely will continue towards dish technology because of the inherently cheaper infrastructure of a dish vs. all the cable and fiber a cable company has to lay and maintain. The question for me is do you want that local cable access channel or not.
Mom had a laptop that the CPU fan died on. I found the part number after considerable frustration, but Gateway refused to sell it to me saying that they have to replace it. This was akin to telling a car owner they have to have their windhsield wipers replaced at the dealer....oh and it's 2 hours labor to install those wipers at $75 an hour. The final salt in the wound was that I'd have to sign off that they might toast the hard drive in the process. No way. Dudette Mom, you'd getting a Dell and I told Gateway to take a flying leap with your dwindling market share.
Why not change their name to X, ACME, or WeDontSpy, or SlashDotSux? They will still get Slashdotted, gain a little press, and make AdAware and the other companies to add one more line of code. Why not setup accross the street from their HQ with trebuches and fling the corpses of spammers through the front window? No? OK how about actual cans of SPAM?
How about if we just mock the hell out of the relative few people that buy from these sources. I mean, point and laugh at them. I met one once, "I wish they'd do way with SPAM....except the home mortgage ones. I like those." I looked at him and laughed my ass off, "You're an idiot! Your one answer to an e-mail made it so three million other people got an unwanted e-mail. Friends don't let friends respond to SPAM." If I could have figured a way to contact his family members I would have shamed him more!
I've specifically said no to the various acceptances to their latest terms of service and expect my account will expire in the next couple of days. I'm wondering if enough others have performed the same civil disobedience and we'll show up as a blip on their user radar. Regardless, I'm going to try my account again next week and see if they've actually locked out my account and then raise a stink if they have...or force me to accept. I'm not usually an activist, but this issue of police getting information without a warrant is a big problems as we increasingly live and work as netizens.