What you do is download a file of a set size from a server you own and control on your ISP's network. I do this with site-to-site links. I have a 20, 200 and 500 MB file of randomness that I copy, the time taken to download is a pretty good indication of the links aggregate speed.
That worked in '90s DSL world, where they'd oversubscribe the links from the CO to the core. But now, the links are not oversubscribed from the CO to the core, but are oversubscribed from the core to the Internet. So you'll get better results on your test than you'd be able to get a file from Microsoft. I remember the days in the early '90s where I'd get files from MS at local interface speeds, so long as I had a T1 or other direct connection, rather than "shared" cable or DSL.
Maybe it was a comment about all the tests being in North America, and many people not living near one of those servers. The trans-Atlantic performance of the speed test isn't amazing.
Then he wasn't turned away. He was mis-diagnosed, treated for the wrong thing, and discharged (unless your use of the word implies an admission, which didn't happen. When I've been sent home from an ER without being admitted, the paperwork still said "discharge", but I've heard others say that implies an admission).
That distinction may matter to the attention getters, but not to anyone else I've talked to. He walked in with Ebola. He walked out with Ebola. He gave an accurate medical history, that was essentially ignored. Whether race or general medical care, the US system is pathetic. I've been treated in about 5 countries, even ones the US makes fun of for being substandard, and they were all better than the US system (unless you are in the US without health insurance and have billions of dollars, in which case the US system is probably the best).
They are all ISP run, or open to bribery. The most independent one I've seen is https://www.google.com/get/vid... which is an ISP quality measure, not a speedtest.
So in MN, there is a minimum list of information, and that information, agreed upon, is an employment contract. If there is no contract, then the employer accepts increased legal risk. So I'd presume that every job in MN has an "employment contract" as defined in the first link. That you don't think an offer letter defined in MN law as an "employment contract" is an employment contract doesn't change reality, or MN law.
And don't forget, even if you get every device in the house at 600 Mbps wireless, that's still essentially a single collision domain, half-duplex. You'd be lucky to get 400 Mbps total throughput with 10 devices connected at 600 Mbps and 9 of them sending trivial traffic and one trying to use it all (unless you have some on 2.4 and some on 5 GHz, where you'll have two separate collision domains). And even that 400 Mbps is up and down combined, so 300 Mbps down on a 600 Mbps connection is a more realistic number with all devices connected at that 600 Mbps.
When some are slower connections, you'll get much worse. A 1 Mbps 802.11b connection moving 500 kbps will flood the air for 50% of the time, cutting the speeds for everyone else, even if that slow one is connected to an N or AC AP. When you upgrade, you have to upgrade all, starting with the slowest.
Yes, and the US doesn't require you renounce all citizenships, and there's no issue in US law with a US citizen collecting multiple citizenships. Some countries take the US wording as renouncing their citizenship. But most don't. The US allows you to renounce US citizenship in another citizenship oath and still retain citizenship, as "official" renunciation can only happen *after* you have another citizenship (not before or during) and is submitted to a consulate or embassy.
Yes, when one becomes a multiple-citizen, one reads up on the complex and contradictory rules.
Just after the ban was put in place, if you came back from Cuba or Mexico with a Cuban visa/stamp in your passport, you'd be arrested on the spot for trading with the enemy. It's not illegal to go to Cuba, it's just illegal to spend any money there, which is presumed if you spent more than 5 minutes anywhere other than US bases.
The State Department does issue travel advisories, and if you have any brains at all, you will at least check those out before traveling anywhere sketchy.
Another good reason to have multiple passports. Flash a US passport in Jakarta at the wrong time, and you'll be shipped back home in a box. But the same person, with the same US accent flashing a UK passport will have someone buy him a drink, and laugh about the evil imperialist Americans.
I didn't know there were different rules for "monthly" and "yearly" employees. I've only seen "temporary" and "permanent" (orthogonal to full-time and part-time). Some offers/contracts have listed monthly pay, others annual pay, and there was no difference in the contract or rules between the two I could see. Some had the offer as annual and the contract as monthly. Some listed as monthly or annual also specified 2-week pay schedule, 2-per month (1&15), or monthly pay. Also unrelated to how they listed the total remuneration.
I got a cop knocking on my door when I failed to appear.
That could happen for either. I left in 2001, but I think it was 2002 to 2004 when they changed to infringements, but I can't be arsed to google it.
those benefits were covered under their own contracts for which I signed entirely separately from acceptance of the offer letter. Also, since these benefits were only presented as part of full-time jobs, some of these things (medical benefits) were required by law. In California, at least, you have long had to offer your full-time employees health insurance.
I've always had these not be "their own contracts" but collected into a single contract per employee, and that one contract per employee was called "employment contract".
My understanding is that only employees who are not at-will (that is, they have some stipulation in their contract that they cannot simply be let go except under extreme circumstances) regularly have full-fledged employment contracts.
Maybe you always work hourly or something. I've almost always been on salary, and I've always (even on my few hourly jobs) had an employment contract. Even when I worked as a security guard where I gave my notice before my first day (I wanted to work over Christmas while in college for more money), I had an employment contract. Though, that temp hourly job was for an insured, bonded job, with uniform and weapon rules, so there was lots of paperwork. That was my shortest job, and still had a full contract, even with zero benefits (not even health insurance for a full-time position).
I lived in Texas for a while, but my only brush with the law regarded speeding tickets.
Back before I left Texas, Texas was the last state where a speeding ticket was a crime. It's now an infraction, as are all states. Did you get a criminal summons for the misdemeanor of speeding? Or an infraction notice?
At least when it was a crime you could get a jury trial for speeding and there were no "points". Now that they are infractions, points are given, and there are fewer appeal options.
There are "millions" of US-other dual citizens. We are, generally required by law, to have two (or more) passports. Most countries require that if you are a citizen, you use your local passport to enter and exit. So a UK/US dual citizen would be required by law to have both passports and use both in the same trip (one to exit the US, and the other to enter the UK, and on the return, one to exit the UK and a different one to enter the US).
They were talking about looking at the stamps in the passport as "proof" you visited there, and absence of the stamp as "proof" you didn't. I heard that during the embargo, someone on a US passport was welcome in Cuba, but that Cuba would not stamp you as entering or leaving, so as to protect your standing. There'd be an awkward "left Mexico the 4th, got back the 10th, but no stamps for having gone anywhere else" in the passport, but no actual proof the missing days were the illegal Cuba kind.
I'd presume for your trip traveling into North Korea on a US passport (presumably from Beijing) would have been through a China/DPRK border, and neither stamped your passport either way. Yes?
So you've never worked anywhere with benefits, or any policies unified into the "offer letter" or other first-day signing pile? Those have been in the contracts I've signed. Retirement benefits, medical benefits and such are not offered by law, and have been with nearly all jobs I've had.
But the racism still exists that benefits white people. The anti-white policies still don't level the playing field. Whites still have the overwhelming benefit.
Affirmative action? Racist. Yes. I went there. Literally. I was soaking in it at UVa back in the late 80s and early 90s. What did it get us? Black students with lower average SAT scores, because that was the only way they could think of to racially balance the school.
And at the height, were the proportions on parity with national race proportions? From what I saw, no. Whites were still disproportionately over-represented in schools.
And the corollary is that with the rights of a person and fewer responsibilities, associated people are more powerful than the sum of the people alone. That's the problem. Nobody ever asserted that people lost rights when they associated, but that a legal entity acting on behalf of an association of people doesn't necessarily have all the rights of the individuals that make up that legal entity.
So what, in many cases people choose mates and friends based on their race preferences.
Every woman I've seen who was in charge of hiring who hired a woman, hired someone uglier than herself. Men hire pretty women, women hire ugly women. Both hire pretty men. It's insane.
Nope, I'd guess AT&T kept less than 50% of those 35%, as they were paid on to the actual crammers. This will be a spur for AT&T to start claiming against the actual crammers.
He never lied about being in the hot zone, and it's being said that he answered honestly, even if incorrectly. The infected he had contact with weren't diagnosed at the time, and he may have never known they were ever officially diagnosed. He told the hospital he was in the hot zone, when they turned him away. Before later accepting him. The great health care service in the USA doesn't help people (especially blacks), hence why there is such a stink over this. He should have been admitted the first time, and wasn't.
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What you do is download a file of a set size from a server you own and control on your ISP's network. I do this with site-to-site links. I have a 20, 200 and 500 MB file of randomness that I copy, the time taken to download is a pretty good indication of the links aggregate speed.
That worked in '90s DSL world, where they'd oversubscribe the links from the CO to the core. But now, the links are not oversubscribed from the CO to the core, but are oversubscribed from the core to the Internet. So you'll get better results on your test than you'd be able to get a file from Microsoft. I remember the days in the early '90s where I'd get files from MS at local interface speeds, so long as I had a T1 or other direct connection, rather than "shared" cable or DSL.
Maybe it was a comment about all the tests being in North America, and many people not living near one of those servers. The trans-Atlantic performance of the speed test isn't amazing.
I work for an ISP, and I've been solicited for bribes. It's not tinfoil, it's reality.
Then he wasn't turned away. He was mis-diagnosed, treated for the wrong thing, and discharged (unless your use of the word implies an admission, which didn't happen. When I've been sent home from an ER without being admitted, the paperwork still said "discharge", but I've heard others say that implies an admission).
That distinction may matter to the attention getters, but not to anyone else I've talked to. He walked in with Ebola. He walked out with Ebola. He gave an accurate medical history, that was essentially ignored. Whether race or general medical care, the US system is pathetic. I've been treated in about 5 countries, even ones the US makes fun of for being substandard, and they were all better than the US system (unless you are in the US without health insurance and have billions of dollars, in which case the US system is probably the best).
They are all ISP run, or open to bribery. The most independent one I've seen is https://www.google.com/get/vid... which is an ISP quality measure, not a speedtest.
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So in MN, there is a minimum list of information, and that information, agreed upon, is an employment contract. If there is no contract, then the employer accepts increased legal risk. So I'd presume that every job in MN has an "employment contract" as defined in the first link. That you don't think an offer letter defined in MN law as an "employment contract" is an employment contract doesn't change reality, or MN law.
It's warm here, and I don't use any other accounts, though I think I have a "lost" account with a lower number from long ago.
You may want to think hard, when was the last time an ex-employee was sued by a company for leaving?
I know more than one personally. Why?
I have 2, from countries that allow multiple. I may get a third, but not for a while. You can never have too many. More options.
And don't forget, even if you get every device in the house at 600 Mbps wireless, that's still essentially a single collision domain, half-duplex. You'd be lucky to get 400 Mbps total throughput with 10 devices connected at 600 Mbps and 9 of them sending trivial traffic and one trying to use it all (unless you have some on 2.4 and some on 5 GHz, where you'll have two separate collision domains). And even that 400 Mbps is up and down combined, so 300 Mbps down on a 600 Mbps connection is a more realistic number with all devices connected at that 600 Mbps.
When some are slower connections, you'll get much worse. A 1 Mbps 802.11b connection moving 500 kbps will flood the air for 50% of the time, cutting the speeds for everyone else, even if that slow one is connected to an N or AC AP. When you upgrade, you have to upgrade all, starting with the slowest.
Wait wait wait, never mind 'rights', you are saying that companies have 'fewer responsibilities', are you serious? Even a little bit serious?
When's the last time you saw a company serve on a jury? When's the last time you saw a company in jail?
Yes, and the US doesn't require you renounce all citizenships, and there's no issue in US law with a US citizen collecting multiple citizenships. Some countries take the US wording as renouncing their citizenship. But most don't. The US allows you to renounce US citizenship in another citizenship oath and still retain citizenship, as "official" renunciation can only happen *after* you have another citizenship (not before or during) and is submitted to a consulate or embassy.
Yes, when one becomes a multiple-citizen, one reads up on the complex and contradictory rules.
The State Department does issue travel advisories, and if you have any brains at all, you will at least check those out before traveling anywhere sketchy.
Another good reason to have multiple passports. Flash a US passport in Jakarta at the wrong time, and you'll be shipped back home in a box. But the same person, with the same US accent flashing a UK passport will have someone buy him a drink, and laugh about the evil imperialist Americans.
He didn't lie at the airport. At least according to the news reports.
I got a cop knocking on my door when I failed to appear.
That could happen for either. I left in 2001, but I think it was 2002 to 2004 when they changed to infringements, but I can't be arsed to google it.
those benefits were covered under their own contracts for which I signed entirely separately from acceptance of the offer letter. Also, since these benefits were only presented as part of full-time jobs, some of these things (medical benefits) were required by law. In California, at least, you have long had to offer your full-time employees health insurance.
I've always had these not be "their own contracts" but collected into a single contract per employee, and that one contract per employee was called "employment contract".
My understanding is that only employees who are not at-will (that is, they have some stipulation in their contract that they cannot simply be let go except under extreme circumstances) regularly have full-fledged employment contracts.
Maybe you always work hourly or something. I've almost always been on salary, and I've always (even on my few hourly jobs) had an employment contract. Even when I worked as a security guard where I gave my notice before my first day (I wanted to work over Christmas while in college for more money), I had an employment contract. Though, that temp hourly job was for an insured, bonded job, with uniform and weapon rules, so there was lots of paperwork. That was my shortest job, and still had a full contract, even with zero benefits (not even health insurance for a full-time position).
I lived in Texas for a while, but my only brush with the law regarded speeding tickets.
Back before I left Texas, Texas was the last state where a speeding ticket was a crime. It's now an infraction, as are all states. Did you get a criminal summons for the misdemeanor of speeding? Or an infraction notice?
At least when it was a crime you could get a jury trial for speeding and there were no "points". Now that they are infractions, points are given, and there are fewer appeal options.
There are "millions" of US-other dual citizens. We are, generally required by law, to have two (or more) passports. Most countries require that if you are a citizen, you use your local passport to enter and exit. So a UK/US dual citizen would be required by law to have both passports and use both in the same trip (one to exit the US, and the other to enter the UK, and on the return, one to exit the UK and a different one to enter the US).
They were talking about looking at the stamps in the passport as "proof" you visited there, and absence of the stamp as "proof" you didn't. I heard that during the embargo, someone on a US passport was welcome in Cuba, but that Cuba would not stamp you as entering or leaving, so as to protect your standing. There'd be an awkward "left Mexico the 4th, got back the 10th, but no stamps for having gone anywhere else" in the passport, but no actual proof the missing days were the illegal Cuba kind.
I'd presume for your trip traveling into North Korea on a US passport (presumably from Beijing) would have been through a China/DPRK border, and neither stamped your passport either way. Yes?
So you've never worked anywhere with benefits, or any policies unified into the "offer letter" or other first-day signing pile? Those have been in the contracts I've signed. Retirement benefits, medical benefits and such are not offered by law, and have been with nearly all jobs I've had.
Affirmative action? Racist. Yes. I went there. Literally. I was soaking in it at UVa back in the late 80s and early 90s. What did it get us? Black students with lower average SAT scores, because that was the only way they could think of to racially balance the school.
And at the height, were the proportions on parity with national race proportions? From what I saw, no. Whites were still disproportionately over-represented in schools.
And the corollary is that with the rights of a person and fewer responsibilities, associated people are more powerful than the sum of the people alone. That's the problem. Nobody ever asserted that people lost rights when they associated, but that a legal entity acting on behalf of an association of people doesn't necessarily have all the rights of the individuals that make up that legal entity.
So what, in many cases people choose mates and friends based on their race preferences.
Every woman I've seen who was in charge of hiring who hired a woman, hired someone uglier than herself. Men hire pretty women, women hire ugly women. Both hire pretty men. It's insane.
Nope, I'd guess AT&T kept less than 50% of those 35%, as they were paid on to the actual crammers. This will be a spur for AT&T to start claiming against the actual crammers.
Ford (Pinto), Chrysler (minivan latches), or GM? Comcast and AT&T didn't actually kill anyone. The car companies did.
He never lied about being in the hot zone, and it's being said that he answered honestly, even if incorrectly. The infected he had contact with weren't diagnosed at the time, and he may have never known they were ever officially diagnosed. He told the hospital he was in the hot zone, when they turned him away. Before later accepting him. The great health care service in the USA doesn't help people (especially blacks), hence why there is such a stink over this. He should have been admitted the first time, and wasn't.