The alternative is to open your home to warantless OSHA inspections. Are you ready for that? Since you dislike employers so much, are you willing to let the employers dictate how your house must be laid out and equipped before you can work for them? Is your house adequately equipped with fire exits? Do you have MSDS sheets for that bottle of who-knows-what under the kitchen sink?
There is no provision in the OSH Act for half-way regulation of the home. Its either a workplace or its not.
Just to make it more interesting, your facts are entirely wrong. Under essentially all of the health plans I've dealt with (far too many) the relevant exclusion is drafted to be seamless with workers compensation. That is, it is either "injury in the course and scope of employment" or covered under a normal health plan. There is essentially nothing that falls through the cracks as being neither (the reasons for this would take more time than I've got. Ask me if you want to know.)
My guess is that you might have gotten disinformation from someone who has a reason to oppose people working from their homes. Why, I don't know. Some people simply find that kind of individual freedom disturbing. Others are union organizers or whatever.
No convenience like this comes totally free, but I'll take it over the hazards of commuting (also not OSHA-covered!) any day.
Its not so silly as it may sound. Indian classical music (ICM) has been built for several hundred years on the idea of a set of rules which prescribe (a) the modal structure (b) a set of required rifs (c) a theme statement and (d) certain other rifs (I'm avoiding a lot of Hindi terminology and nuances here). Any of the rules can be broken, but with discretion, and the (a) rules are more important than (b) and so on.
Using available techniques, this is could be programmed, and some are beginning to try. I don't expect to see a cybernetic Bhimsen Joshi or Nikhil Banerjee in the near future, but certain other performers could, frankly, be replaced.
Western pop is a heck of a lot easier to capture in this fashion than, say Ahir Bhairav. The bandish (rule c) requires some serious creativity. But beyond that, I think most of the people reading this could learn enough in a year or so to be quite dangerous on the MTV scene.
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The alternative is to open your home to warantless OSHA inspections. Are you ready for that? Since you dislike employers so much, are you willing to let the employers dictate how your house must be laid out and equipped before you can work for them? Is your house adequately equipped with fire exits? Do you have MSDS sheets for that bottle of who-knows-what under the kitchen sink?
There is no provision in the OSH Act for half-way regulation of the home. Its either a workplace or its not.
Just to make it more interesting, your facts are entirely wrong. Under essentially all of the health plans I've dealt with (far too many) the relevant exclusion is drafted to be seamless with workers compensation. That is, it is either "injury in the course and scope of employment" or covered under a normal health plan. There is essentially nothing that falls through the cracks as being neither (the reasons for this would take more time than I've got. Ask me if you want to know.)
My guess is that you might have gotten disinformation from someone who has a reason to oppose people working from their homes. Why, I don't know. Some people simply find that kind of individual freedom disturbing. Others are union organizers or whatever.
No convenience like this comes totally free, but I'll take it over the hazards of commuting (also not OSHA-covered!) any day.
--Toby White
Its not so silly as it may sound. Indian classical music (ICM) has been built for several hundred years on the idea of a set of rules which prescribe (a) the modal structure (b) a set of required rifs (c) a theme statement and (d) certain other rifs (I'm avoiding a lot of Hindi terminology and nuances here). Any of the rules can be broken, but with discretion, and the (a) rules are more important than (b) and so on.
Using available techniques, this is could be programmed, and some are beginning to try. I don't expect to see a cybernetic Bhimsen Joshi or Nikhil Banerjee in the near future, but certain other performers could, frankly, be replaced.
Western pop is a heck of a lot easier to capture in this fashion than, say Ahir Bhairav. The bandish (rule c) requires some serious creativity. But beyond that, I think most of the people reading this could learn enough in a year or so to be quite dangerous on the MTV scene.