In general, contractors have been involved in staff meetings right alongside full time employees. If it was project related, they needed to know as much as the employees.
The ONLY times I have ever seen contractors excused was when there was bad news to be handed out about the companies situation. And then we were all reminded that this info. had not yet been released publicly, so we were now prohibited from trading the company stock for a period of time. When we all made it back to our desks, the contractors had been on the phone with their brokers, dumping their company stock holdings.
This is an experience and skill problem. People new in the job market have fewer skills and experience. A position as an employee is better for them. Once you become known in your industry for your skills and people seek you out specifically, being a contractor is much better.
Per what time period? I'm a geezer and my private insurance is much less than a thousand per month.
But then it depends on which group you are a member of. When I left Boeing (laid off), they offered me their insurance plan through COBRA. It turns out that the working population at Boeing is so old (and sick) that their group plan was a few hundred dollars a month MORE than the same benefit package bought privately.
... stronger anti-piracy measures for a hard 25 year limit on copyright term. We can't have our law enforcement people chase down every copy of Steamboat Willie.
Where I live, they could ferry the geezers from the senior center to Costco. Where they can wander the aisles for a few hours and eat from the free sample carts. It cheaper then actually having to feed them at the nursing home.
Meat production might be inefficient on a per acre basis. But animals can be grazed on unimproved grasslands. And with global warming, we are going to be seeing a lot more of these in the northern latitudes.
On the other hand, growing plants for human consumption generally requires plowing under the native plant species and using the land to support monocultures. And using a lot of water, fertilizer and pesticides to do so.
I was just getting used to the end of Net Neutrality and having my ISP be able to block all these annoying GOP websites and ads begging for money. Now you are telling me that I'm going to have to see them?
I might be a "cord never". I used to get cable TV (basic analog package) when I'd move into an apartment and there was coax lying on the floor. When I moved to a place with no coax, it was rabbit-ears or nothing. Now, on my own house, I have a homemade OTA antenna.
Broadband has been via fixed wireless or now FiOS.
The system need to be all open source and audited by multiple separate security companies.
Yeah, right. Lets see how well that will work.
Utility software (SCADA, etc) is covered by NDA agreements. It is customized for a particular utilities' system by the vendor and once set up, they don't want you taking that configuration information and entering into a maintenance contract with a third party.
There is also something to the fact that many of these systems are a real shit-show. And they don't want customers banding together, comparing notes and putting pressure on the vendor to clean up their act.
Even general electric isn't let in the system without a reason,
Your old SCADA version is about to expire and will cease to function X weeks after this time. Please provide access to our maintenance representative before this time in order to have an update installed. We will invoice you for the update once it is installed.
what they need to know is who started the whole shitshow
It was started by Vishnu.
Really, this is an insoluble problem. Because the purpose of religion is to cultivate unquestioning followers. And any attempt to punish their leaders or remove their ability to SWAT an enemy is going to be met with at least as much violence as the occasional butchered cow.
The bastards do this, because the sorting time looks free to them.
If your municipality makes you do the sorting. Mine has a single bin. Which got shipped to China (until recently) where they sorted it and then did whatever. Once China no longer accepted recycling, the avoided cost of recycling reappeared as a real cost per ton to bury the stuff in a dump. The multiple bin solution incurs actual costs to collect and keep separate those multiple bins. So even with your (free) efforts, it wasn't worth it to my town.
I used to haul my garbage to the dump (transfer station actually) myself. It was much cheaper than paying for garbage pickup. They have sorted recycling bins at the transfer station and I didn't mind taking care of it myself as well. There were also glass and paper recycling bins at other locations, like supermarket parking lots. But the city became so enamored of mandatory garbage pickup (and the fees) that most people figured, "If I'm paying them for it, why should I put in any extra work?"
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What do you have against Winnie the Pooh?
In general, contractors have been involved in staff meetings right alongside full time employees. If it was project related, they needed to know as much as the employees.
The ONLY times I have ever seen contractors excused was when there was bad news to be handed out about the companies situation. And then we were all reminded that this info. had not yet been released publicly, so we were now prohibited from trading the company stock for a period of time. When we all made it back to our desks, the contractors had been on the phone with their brokers, dumping their company stock holdings.
This is an experience and skill problem. People new in the job market have fewer skills and experience. A position as an employee is better for them. Once you become known in your industry for your skills and people seek you out specifically, being a contractor is much better.
healthcare on your own costs thousands
Per what time period? I'm a geezer and my private insurance is much less than a thousand per month.
But then it depends on which group you are a member of. When I left Boeing (laid off), they offered me their insurance plan through COBRA. It turns out that the working population at Boeing is so old (and sick) that their group plan was a few hundred dollars a month MORE than the same benefit package bought privately.
BTW, we just sold the street leading up to your corporate HQ to Waymo.
Where I live, they could ferry the geezers from the senior center to Costco. Where they can wander the aisles for a few hours and eat from the free sample carts. It cheaper then actually having to feed them at the nursing home.
Meat production might be inefficient on a per acre basis. But animals can be grazed on unimproved grasslands. And with global warming, we are going to be seeing a lot more of these in the northern latitudes. On the other hand, growing plants for human consumption generally requires plowing under the native plant species and using the land to support monocultures. And using a lot of water, fertilizer and pesticides to do so.
I was just getting used to the end of Net Neutrality and having my ISP be able to block all these annoying GOP websites and ads begging for money. Now you are telling me that I'm going to have to see them?
Noooooo!!!!!
I think that's what 'riding shotgun' means. Perhaps literally.
Slashdotters can't find it.
By the time you're done for the day you'll have enough hot water to take a bath.
You do know that the intersection of gamers and daily bathers is pretty much the null set?
I might be a "cord never". I used to get cable TV (basic analog package) when I'd move into an apartment and there was coax lying on the floor. When I moved to a place with no coax, it was rabbit-ears or nothing. Now, on my own house, I have a homemade OTA antenna.
Broadband has been via fixed wireless or now FiOS.
The system need to be all open source and audited by multiple separate security companies.
Yeah, right. Lets see how well that will work.
Utility software (SCADA, etc) is covered by NDA agreements. It is customized for a particular utilities' system by the vendor and once set up, they don't want you taking that configuration information and entering into a maintenance contract with a third party.
There is also something to the fact that many of these systems are a real shit-show. And they don't want customers banding together, comparing notes and putting pressure on the vendor to clean up their act.
Even general electric isn't let in the system without a reason,
Your old SCADA version is about to expire and will cease to function X weeks after this time. Please provide access to our maintenance representative before this time in order to have an update installed. We will invoice you for the update once it is installed.
what they need to know is who started the whole shitshow
It was started by Vishnu.
Really, this is an insoluble problem. Because the purpose of religion is to cultivate unquestioning followers. And any attempt to punish their leaders or remove their ability to SWAT an enemy is going to be met with at least as much violence as the occasional butchered cow.
That $7000 Nikon D5 is the see in the dark Batman camera.
Or a fast shutter, motion capturing camera for sports and nature photography.
It's a prison colony, actually. The government can't break the habit of tossing the residents' cells.
The bastards do this, because the sorting time looks free to them.
If your municipality makes you do the sorting. Mine has a single bin. Which got shipped to China (until recently) where they sorted it and then did whatever. Once China no longer accepted recycling, the avoided cost of recycling reappeared as a real cost per ton to bury the stuff in a dump. The multiple bin solution incurs actual costs to collect and keep separate those multiple bins. So even with your (free) efforts, it wasn't worth it to my town.
I used to haul my garbage to the dump (transfer station actually) myself. It was much cheaper than paying for garbage pickup. They have sorted recycling bins at the transfer station and I didn't mind taking care of it myself as well. There were also glass and paper recycling bins at other locations, like supermarket parking lots. But the city became so enamored of mandatory garbage pickup (and the fees) that most people figured, "If I'm paying them for it, why should I put in any extra work?"
You mean 'wikador'.
You aint on CompuServe no more.
That's Compu-Serv.
*Actually, we can't, as it was sold to the Chinese.
That's because they mis-labeled Palestinians.