I and a number of other staff negotiated 'only on the job' language in our employment contracts back in 2000, so yeah, it happens.
These days, I require such language. I have no problem with works for hire, but I do have a problem with someone else taking credit for something in which they were never involved.
Agreed, and in several states, any contract stating that EVERYTHING you invent is the employer's is automatically limited by law to things that are a) done on the employer's time, b) done on the employer's equipment or using their resources, OR c) the employer was credibly planning to do already. I believe California is one of those states, and due to this, most standard employment contracts have these exceptions baked in, even in states where an employer assignment can be unlimited. (I am not a lawyer, you'd be crazy to take this as legal advice, if you have questions about your contract, talk to a lawyer.)
How long were you staying? I also take it you were travelling by car, which typically is easier than, say, travelling by Greyhound bus, which I did a fair bit back in the day.
Legally speaking, they can't keep you out of the country if you have a US Passport. That was the main gist of what I was saying. Even as a green card holder, if you get a CBP guard in a particularly bad mood, they could snap your green card in half and you'd be more or less screwed.
Mostly I just want to be done with USCIS, and vote. As an aside, you can get in a special faster line, if you get a Nexus pass (which I'm going to do once I get my 10 year green card).
Actually, what you're talking about wouldn't be misrepresentation, it would be overstay, which I think entails a three year ban for greater than six months, and a ten year for greater than one year (forget where the lifetime ban starts). How long did they overstay their visa?
I'm the K-1 in our marriage. I didn't know you could adjust your visa status to K-1 without leaving, that's crazy (it didn't matter so much to me since I was "just" five hours away). We did all the paperwork ourselves too (if you can understand it, a lawyer is a waste of money and is more likely to fuck it up anyway). I only had to do one medical but I've been fingerprinted twice (they do love those biometrics appointments, don't they?)
And yeah, misrepresentation is one of the worst things you can do as far as USCIS / USCBP is concerned. They might be able to file to come back after like ten years. If you want to look for a solution for that, you can post their situation on VisaJourney and see what they say. (God, I love VisaJourney. If they didn't exist my immigration process would have sucked that much more.) Sorry to hear about that.
Not sure why I'm responding to an obvious troll, but in case people believe you...
Most cross over from mexico, have a baby born in the US and automatically become citizens.
Citation please, because I have seen nothing in the laws that allow this. The baby becomes a citizen by birth; that does nothing for the parents. They might not get deported as easily (CBP et al do care about families, whether you like it or not) but they don't get Citizenship.
Then you have all the ones who come here and do absolutely nothing but get free everything that most american born citizens cant afford.
How, exactly? For just about every means-tested benefit you need a valid social security number. Can't get an SSN without ID. I suppose next you'll claim they just fake an ID with the same level of evidence as everything else you've said, which is zero.
Hi there. Immigrant to the US from Canada here. I figured I'd just respond to the parent (mostly a troll) and some of the siblings here.
Immigration to the United States requires a significant amount of money and time. First, you have to qualify for either one of the immigrant visa categories, or come across on what's called a dual intent visa and then adjust status to Permanent Resident. These processes variously require interviews with USCIS and a significant wait for certain categories (more than a decade in a few, months to years for most), not to mention that the filing and other fees for the whole process can run into the thousands of dollars. (Did you know that USCIS, like the Post Office, doesn't take taxpayer dollars and instead is self-funded from filing fees? Good for you, not great for immigrants.)
If you came over on a nonimmigrant visa, like a visitor, work, or educational visa, you're likely going to have to return home before you can start the real immigration process, unless it's "dual intent" like the K-1 fiance(e) visa as I mentioned before.
No, we aren't required to take a test on civics and English. That is required when one naturalizes, or becomes a United States citizen. This has a prerequisite of legally residing continually in the US for three or five years, depending on the visa category in which you entered. (Oh, and another thousand dollars, thanks.) The process, like other USCIS processes, takes about a year in wait and processing time. The process is also entirely not required; one can continue to be a permanent resident for as long as one likes, as long as one continues to file for an extension of one's Permanent Resident status (i.e. green card).
I personally plan to become a US citizen (well, dual citizen) as soon as possible though, because it allows one to obtain a US Passport (faster border travel), means one is done with USCIS forever (barring very specific, very rare circumstances), and allows one to vote.
So I guess what I'm saying is, the next time you want to make assumptions about legal immigration, look into it first. It's quite complicated, expensive, and not for the faint of heart.
I almost wonder if the editors have other responsibilities that VA Linux / Geeknet and now Dice put on them, thinking that running Slashdot couldn't possibly take much of their time. How much time do they have to actually examine submissions and edit them before posting?
Not running a Tor exit node. Really, they could say that any participant of the Tor network could have been participating in distribution of illegal materials; running an exit node just lets them prove the exit node operator in particular was doing so.
Honestly, since Obama's been in office, I've been pretty impressed at the progress of NASA and private entities in expanding space exploration. Granted, we haven't got manned missions to other planets still, but those are some of the most expensive and safety-conscious missions available, and really the only place we can conceivably go right now is the moon again. What would that do for us, if anything?
All that said, I would like to see a lunar space elevator be built. That would make the moon much more interesting.
Suddenly, the United States will discover terrorists on Mars as well, and state that those terrorists intend to strike us unless we strike them first...
This is the original BSD license, modified by removal of the advertising clause. It is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.
This license is sometimes referred to as the 3-clause BSD license.
The modified BSD license is not bad, as lax permissive licenses go, though the Apache 2.0 license is preferable. However, it is risky to recommend use of “the BSD license”, even for special cases such as small programs, because confusion could easily occur and lead to use of the flawed original BSD license. To avoid this risk, you can suggest the X11 license instead. The X11 license and the modified revised BSD license are more or less equivalent.
However, the Apache 2.0 license is better for substantial programs, since it prevents patent treachery.
There is also an article I found on this exact subject, where Stallman says the following:
Freedom means having control of your own life; “Freedom of choice” is a partly accurate and partly misleading way to describe that, and taking that expression too literally leads to mistaken conclusions. Thus, I say I advocate “freedom” — not “freedom of choice”. This always leads to the question of “which freedom?” In the area of software, I want a society in which users are free to run software, free study and change its source code and make their changed versions run, and free to redistribute changed and unchanged versions. In other words, a society in which non-free software more or less doesn’t exist. Establishing a free society that endures generally requires not allowing people to give up freedom. In other words, it requires inalienable rights. I do not want a society in which people had those freedoms only until they gave them up. I do not say this with the expectation that you will agree with me. It sounds like you are as firmly convinced of your views as I am of mine. I hope, though, that at least you will understand better what my position is.
You see a direct attack on the Fourth Amendment, and the best you can come up with is, "ha ha, it was your side that did it, not mine." Do you listen to yourself or are everyone's civil rights just another baseball game to you?
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Shatner's a proud Canadian, we don't particularly care where he lives. :^)
They can, and do, routinely pass it along to a medical information clearing house in Massachusetts (I forget the name of it), which is a third party.
MIB Group, Inc., claiming the title for creepiest business name in the health industry.
I and a number of other staff negotiated 'only on the job' language in our employment contracts back in 2000, so yeah, it happens.
These days, I require such language. I have no problem with works for hire, but I do have a problem with someone else taking credit for something in which they were never involved.
Agreed, and in several states, any contract stating that EVERYTHING you invent is the employer's is automatically limited by law to things that are a) done on the employer's time, b) done on the employer's equipment or using their resources, OR c) the employer was credibly planning to do already. I believe California is one of those states, and due to this, most standard employment contracts have these exceptions baked in, even in states where an employer assignment can be unlimited. (I am not a lawyer, you'd be crazy to take this as legal advice, if you have questions about your contract, talk to a lawyer.)
How long were you staying? I also take it you were travelling by car, which typically is easier than, say, travelling by Greyhound bus, which I did a fair bit back in the day.
Legally speaking, they can't keep you out of the country if you have a US Passport. That was the main gist of what I was saying. Even as a green card holder, if you get a CBP guard in a particularly bad mood, they could snap your green card in half and you'd be more or less screwed.
Mostly I just want to be done with USCIS, and vote. As an aside, you can get in a special faster line, if you get a Nexus pass (which I'm going to do once I get my 10 year green card).
Actually, what you're talking about wouldn't be misrepresentation, it would be overstay, which I think entails a three year ban for greater than six months, and a ten year for greater than one year (forget where the lifetime ban starts). How long did they overstay their visa?
The Act makes available 55,000 permanent resident visas annually to natives of countries deemed to have low rates of immigration to the United States.
"Give me your tired, your poor... if they happen to come from the right country and are lucky enough to win"
I'm the K-1 in our marriage. I didn't know you could adjust your visa status to K-1 without leaving, that's crazy (it didn't matter so much to me since I was "just" five hours away). We did all the paperwork ourselves too (if you can understand it, a lawyer is a waste of money and is more likely to fuck it up anyway). I only had to do one medical but I've been fingerprinted twice (they do love those biometrics appointments, don't they?)
And yeah, misrepresentation is one of the worst things you can do as far as USCIS / USCBP is concerned. They might be able to file to come back after like ten years. If you want to look for a solution for that, you can post their situation on VisaJourney and see what they say. (God, I love VisaJourney. If they didn't exist my immigration process would have sucked that much more.) Sorry to hear about that.
Not sure why I'm responding to an obvious troll, but in case people believe you...
Most cross over from mexico, have a baby born in the US and automatically become citizens.
Citation please, because I have seen nothing in the laws that allow this. The baby becomes a citizen by birth; that does nothing for the parents. They might not get deported as easily (CBP et al do care about families, whether you like it or not) but they don't get Citizenship.
Then you have all the ones who come here and do absolutely nothing but get free everything that most american born citizens cant afford.
How, exactly? For just about every means-tested benefit you need a valid social security number. Can't get an SSN without ID. I suppose next you'll claim they just fake an ID with the same level of evidence as everything else you've said, which is zero.
The rest of your comment is just ad hominem.
Hi there. Immigrant to the US from Canada here. I figured I'd just respond to the parent (mostly a troll) and some of the siblings here.
Immigration to the United States requires a significant amount of money and time. First, you have to qualify for either one of the immigrant visa categories, or come across on what's called a dual intent visa and then adjust status to Permanent Resident. These processes variously require interviews with USCIS and a significant wait for certain categories (more than a decade in a few, months to years for most), not to mention that the filing and other fees for the whole process can run into the thousands of dollars. (Did you know that USCIS, like the Post Office, doesn't take taxpayer dollars and instead is self-funded from filing fees? Good for you, not great for immigrants.)
If you came over on a nonimmigrant visa, like a visitor, work, or educational visa, you're likely going to have to return home before you can start the real immigration process, unless it's "dual intent" like the K-1 fiance(e) visa as I mentioned before.
Reason has a very good overview of the various paths available.
No, we aren't required to take a test on civics and English. That is required when one naturalizes, or becomes a United States citizen. This has a prerequisite of legally residing continually in the US for three or five years, depending on the visa category in which you entered. (Oh, and another thousand dollars, thanks.) The process, like other USCIS processes, takes about a year in wait and processing time. The process is also entirely not required; one can continue to be a permanent resident for as long as one likes, as long as one continues to file for an extension of one's Permanent Resident status (i.e. green card).
I personally plan to become a US citizen (well, dual citizen) as soon as possible though, because it allows one to obtain a US Passport (faster border travel), means one is done with USCIS forever (barring very specific, very rare circumstances), and allows one to vote.
So I guess what I'm saying is, the next time you want to make assumptions about legal immigration, look into it first. It's quite complicated, expensive, and not for the faint of heart.
"Give me your tired, your poor"? Not so much.
What the fuck? You can't believe in God and also believe in evolution now? What was your teacher trying to prove?
I almost wonder if the editors have other responsibilities that VA Linux / Geeknet and now Dice put on them, thinking that running Slashdot couldn't possibly take much of their time. How much time do they have to actually examine submissions and edit them before posting?
Not running a Tor exit node. Really, they could say that any participant of the Tor network could have been participating in distribution of illegal materials; running an exit node just lets them prove the exit node operator in particular was doing so.
Honestly, since Obama's been in office, I've been pretty impressed at the progress of NASA and private entities in expanding space exploration. Granted, we haven't got manned missions to other planets still, but those are some of the most expensive and safety-conscious missions available, and really the only place we can conceivably go right now is the moon again. What would that do for us, if anything?
All that said, I would like to see a lunar space elevator be built. That would make the moon much more interesting.
Suddenly, the United States will discover terrorists on Mars as well, and state that those terrorists intend to strike us unless we strike them first...
While you're at it, do me a favor and add "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" to Postgres. (If necessary, also add it to an SQL spec.) Thanks!
There is a collection of the FSF's thoughts on various free and non-free licenses available, including the BSD license:
This is the original BSD license, modified by removal of the advertising clause. It is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.
This license is sometimes referred to as the 3-clause BSD license.
The modified BSD license is not bad, as lax permissive licenses go, though the Apache 2.0 license is preferable. However, it is risky to recommend use of “the BSD license”, even for special cases such as small programs, because confusion could easily occur and lead to use of the flawed original BSD license. To avoid this risk, you can suggest the X11 license instead. The X11 license and the modified revised BSD license are more or less equivalent.
However, the Apache 2.0 license is better for substantial programs, since it prevents patent treachery.
There is also an article I found on this exact subject, where Stallman says the following:
Freedom means having control of your own life; “Freedom of choice” is a partly accurate and partly misleading way to describe that, and taking that expression too literally leads to mistaken conclusions. Thus, I say I advocate “freedom” — not “freedom of choice”. This always leads to the question of “which freedom?” In the area of software, I want a society in which users are free to run software, free study and change its source code and make their changed versions run, and free to redistribute changed and unchanged versions. In other words, a society in which non-free software more or less doesn’t exist. Establishing a free society that endures generally requires not allowing people to give up freedom. In other words, it requires inalienable rights. I do not want a society in which people had those freedoms only until they gave them up. I do not say this with the expectation that you will agree with me. It sounds like you are as firmly convinced of your views as I am of mine. I hope, though, that at least you will understand better what my position is.
Wouldn't these accidents be prevented by simply not informing the public where the cameras were installed, and camouflaging them?
I love this checklist. May it continue on to the next major internet issue decades into the future.
http://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/
Answer: It doesn't.
Why should Form1 allow their competition to exist if they can eradicate them?
Anons everywhere are now thinking to themselves, "challenge accepted."
I don't listen to myself, and yes, it is another baseball game to me. Go Team!
That's what I thought.
Never underestimate the rage of irrational parents looking for a quick buck.
Dual monitor support is an unlockable.
You see a direct attack on the Fourth Amendment, and the best you can come up with is, "ha ha, it was your side that did it, not mine." Do you listen to yourself or are everyone's civil rights just another baseball game to you?