If all those pesky zero tolerance rules get used, there should be a lot of fired teachers. Even without the zero tolerance rules, there should be a lot of fired teachers. I'm old enough to remember the nuclear "hide under the desk" drills, but they were always clear it was a drill.
The only way to get positive feedback is to not exist, at least if you're in authority.
How many bad cops are there, really? But there are plenty of people that paint them all with the same brush. I'm not saying that the military is filled with righteous humanitarians who just get stuck in a rough spot every now and again. But the fact is that bad news sells and good news doesn't. When given the choice between bad news and good news, the bad news will win every time. That having been said, I don't think the DoD should be in the business of making sure their side of the story gets told. I know people over there now, and have few friends that have made it back. It's still a war, they're still in the military, and the story isn't going to be all rosy. Or all bad.
I've always thought that some of the questions you're allowed to ask (more importantly, the ones you're not allowed to ask) when you call for references are a bit silly. The general rule seems to be that if the person was great at their job, you can talk them up. But if they were bad at their job, or did something outrageous that got them fired, about all you can say is that you wouldn't recommend them for rehire.
I don't know if that's because of some privacy laws, or whether that's just standard "don't send the lawyers after us!" protection. Either way it's struck me as silly, and with that in mind I'm not sure I'd point to search results (unless part of employee authorized criminal background check) as a reason for firing someone. In the same way that, if I happen to know someone that used to work with a "would not rehire" who gives me more scoop on the employee than the official mantra, I wouldn't divulge the receipt of more than "would not rehire" from a referred company.
Then again, I live in a right to work state, employers can fire people at any time for any reason...as long as it doesn't bump into EEOC guidelines. So we wouldn't need to provide a ream of documentation on firing someone (but it does help to have available).
That's what I was thinking. There's even the snide comments about the first level being a tutorial. Is the attention span of the average gamer so small that EA figures they won't remember? Wait, don't answer that.
So the guy speaks out against a religion, which falls under hate crime laws in the liberal bastion of California (tolerance is apparently enforced by law there). He flees to Canada...where he's promptly arrested after (probably) false tips are called in by the group he's picketing. Call my cynical, but I'm betting California, which seems to have a lot of rich Scientologists that also are politically active, isn't going to be the best place to go to trial. Especially over a law that doesn't exist (at least to that degree) in most other states.
Don't cry me a river about that...with the exception of upper echelons of management, I'd say most people do more for the company than they get back as a reward for their work.
I've been on both sides of the fence, I've seen users that put every piece of software they can find on their machine, then come calling when they break. I've been blamed for doing something to break a printer, about two weeks after I was there to swap a monitor.
On the flip side, I've worked in places with a tiny server share to store important data and an IT staff that doesn't really guarantee it'll be backed up. So we ended up having to work around the IT staff in a lot of things. It was easier to cobble together something that we can guarantee is backed up AND that has enough space for us than to go through the reams of paperwork to get more space and justify some sort of improved SLA.
In fairness to the IT folks though, a lot of the people working IT are just trying to feel their way through the system that was put in place before they started, and they think it's just as stupid as the end users. But they lack the power to change it, and their bosses don't want to.
I'm not one either... But it seems sort of logical. There's more power being used, more stress on their systems, likely a need for better monitoring which requires more people. Or at least that's how I see it, someone that really knows what's happening might be able to make it make more sense. It's probably a good idea for people who see most of their big usage in non-peak hours (nightclubs, maybe), but pretty much a raw deal for everybody else.
In my area, there are plenty of PS3's on the shelf, waiting for someone to find them a home. They should've lowered the price long ago, if they were going to. The shortage of drives doesn't seem to have hurt the availability any, and a lower price would go a long way toward getting some people to buy it...maybe. There's still a lot about the PS3 I don't like (and price is one of them, even with a $100 price cut).
I care less about the legal arguments and merits of the case than I do about what this says about Verizon's respect for customer information confidentiality. I was thinking about swapping because my current carrier has crappy sound quality (but a lot of bars!), and my hearing is bad enough that I'd rather have good quality and dropped calls. Not that your run of the mill we were a monopoly now we're not a monopoly hey we're a monopoly again carrier would do any better with privacy...
I don't see how the laws can help but extend to the virtual world. While the crime isn't directly equivalent to the crime in the real world, at the very least harassment has been committed. Depending on the laws of the countries in question, it's probably a real world crime. And regardless of the persons ability to log out at any time, a "crime" was committed against them.
I'll believe he "gets it" when he goes back to some of his big donors in the entertainment industry and starts asking them to consider backing initiatives that support consumer rights and fair use. Until then, this isn't much more than a publicity stunt.
If you are in your grace period, they can terminate you without giving a reason, but if you've been employed for some time they cannot legally fire you for refusing to perform an illegal act.
YMMV. In some states, you can technically be fired for any reason at any time, regardless of circumstances. If you can prove some kind of discriminatory or hostile workplace kinds of claims, you have some recourse for litigation. But if it's not documented, there's nothing to stop a company from firing people for no reason.
Do what? When did changing the proxy server settings on your web browser become indicative of imagination and higher problem solving skills? What problem were they trying to solve anyway? Not being able to look at stuff the school doesn't want them to look at? Stuff that, under the right circumstances, could've led to lawsuits against the school?
I bet the regulation will be there forever, more or less. From the sounds of it, it's up to the unit commanders to set the standards for their unit. There'll be some leeway to make sure every "stop at the PX and snag some milk" email doesn't have to be approved by on-high.
When I was in, back in the day, I'm willing to bet there were restrictions in place that could be applied to personal correspondence and telephone calls. Sounds like they're just updating the rules to keep up with the times. It's also not too surprising to me that the rules would be posted somewhere not everybody could read them, there'll be notes sent out to remind everybody about the new policy.
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To just make sure MMOs are no longer created or supported, that way the gaming industry can get back to genres that matter and all of the losers that waste their time on WoW can commit suicide.
Both parties are filled with people that want to place further restrictions on music, video games and the like. Heck, Lieberman mentioned by name some of the bands I enjoy listening to. Hillary wants lots of looks into this whole video game thing. And Gore's wife was a driving force in the whole PMRC thing. I haven't found a party yet that's actually for freedom.
I only read the article after information regarding the original sender of the email was taken out of the email. Is this a case where a person affiliated with/employed by the parent company saw the copyrighted material and started the ball rolling? It sounds like this was a threatening letter from a company drone that would've (hopefully) been brought to a standstill had real lawyers been called in.
I wonder how much MS really makes off Windows, particularly at the consumer level, in terms of profit per unit. It's easy to see in some business lines where the profit really is (ink jet printers versus cartridge refills, concessions versus ticket prices at theaters, etc.), but it's a little blurry in software. It probably makes good business sense for MS to lower the price on their OS by $100 or so per unit and make it up in other lines of business. 'Course, I still won't upgrade until I get more or less forced into it because of DirectX 10 (damn you, gaming addiction!), but it might get them more actual sales.
Nah, CO2 has the potential to react just as badly on Class D fires. The only recommended ways I know of involve, essentially, smothering the flames entirely. Powdered copper-based extinguishers were developed, I believe, to fight fires involving lithium.
Reading the article linked off TFA about an additional protocol that people want ratified has a line about "racist and xenophobic material" means any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as a pretext for any of these factors
It's dangerous ground as "promoting or inciting" are tough to prove. Writing something in your blog about the deaths of North African teenagers being the cause of national riots could be construed as likely to incite or promote discrimination against North African's. It may be factually accurate, but that might not matter.
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If all those pesky zero tolerance rules get used, there should be a lot of fired teachers. Even without the zero tolerance rules, there should be a lot of fired teachers. I'm old enough to remember the nuclear "hide under the desk" drills, but they were always clear it was a drill.
The only way to get positive feedback is to not exist, at least if you're in authority.
How many bad cops are there, really? But there are plenty of people that paint them all with the same brush. I'm not saying that the military is filled with righteous humanitarians who just get stuck in a rough spot every now and again. But the fact is that bad news sells and good news doesn't. When given the choice between bad news and good news, the bad news will win every time. That having been said, I don't think the DoD should be in the business of making sure their side of the story gets told. I know people over there now, and have few friends that have made it back. It's still a war, they're still in the military, and the story isn't going to be all rosy. Or all bad.
I've always thought that some of the questions you're allowed to ask (more importantly, the ones you're not allowed to ask) when you call for references are a bit silly. The general rule seems to be that if the person was great at their job, you can talk them up. But if they were bad at their job, or did something outrageous that got them fired, about all you can say is that you wouldn't recommend them for rehire.
I don't know if that's because of some privacy laws, or whether that's just standard "don't send the lawyers after us!" protection. Either way it's struck me as silly, and with that in mind I'm not sure I'd point to search results (unless part of employee authorized criminal background check) as a reason for firing someone. In the same way that, if I happen to know someone that used to work with a "would not rehire" who gives me more scoop on the employee than the official mantra, I wouldn't divulge the receipt of more than "would not rehire" from a referred company.
Then again, I live in a right to work state, employers can fire people at any time for any reason...as long as it doesn't bump into EEOC guidelines. So we wouldn't need to provide a ream of documentation on firing someone (but it does help to have available).
That's what I was thinking. There's even the snide comments about the first level being a tutorial. Is the attention span of the average gamer so small that EA figures they won't remember? Wait, don't answer that.
So the guy speaks out against a religion, which falls under hate crime laws in the liberal bastion of California (tolerance is apparently enforced by law there). He flees to Canada...where he's promptly arrested after (probably) false tips are called in by the group he's picketing. Call my cynical, but I'm betting California, which seems to have a lot of rich Scientologists that also are politically active, isn't going to be the best place to go to trial. Especially over a law that doesn't exist (at least to that degree) in most other states.
Don't cry me a river about that...with the exception of upper echelons of management, I'd say most people do more for the company than they get back as a reward for their work.
I've been on both sides of the fence, I've seen users that put every piece of software they can find on their machine, then come calling when they break. I've been blamed for doing something to break a printer, about two weeks after I was there to swap a monitor.
On the flip side, I've worked in places with a tiny server share to store important data and an IT staff that doesn't really guarantee it'll be backed up. So we ended up having to work around the IT staff in a lot of things. It was easier to cobble together something that we can guarantee is backed up AND that has enough space for us than to go through the reams of paperwork to get more space and justify some sort of improved SLA.
In fairness to the IT folks though, a lot of the people working IT are just trying to feel their way through the system that was put in place before they started, and they think it's just as stupid as the end users. But they lack the power to change it, and their bosses don't want to.
I'm not one either... But it seems sort of logical. There's more power being used, more stress on their systems, likely a need for better monitoring which requires more people. Or at least that's how I see it, someone that really knows what's happening might be able to make it make more sense. It's probably a good idea for people who see most of their big usage in non-peak hours (nightclubs, maybe), but pretty much a raw deal for everybody else.
Nope, you're not the only person. I also sorta liked the original Mortal Kombat. It wasn't going to win any Oscars, but it wasn't a bad action movie.
In my area, there are plenty of PS3's on the shelf, waiting for someone to find them a home. They should've lowered the price long ago, if they were going to. The shortage of drives doesn't seem to have hurt the availability any, and a lower price would go a long way toward getting some people to buy it...maybe. There's still a lot about the PS3 I don't like (and price is one of them, even with a $100 price cut).
I care less about the legal arguments and merits of the case than I do about what this says about Verizon's respect for customer information confidentiality. I was thinking about swapping because my current carrier has crappy sound quality (but a lot of bars!), and my hearing is bad enough that I'd rather have good quality and dropped calls. Not that your run of the mill we were a monopoly now we're not a monopoly hey we're a monopoly again carrier would do any better with privacy...
I don't see how the laws can help but extend to the virtual world. While the crime isn't directly equivalent to the crime in the real world, at the very least harassment has been committed. Depending on the laws of the countries in question, it's probably a real world crime. And regardless of the persons ability to log out at any time, a "crime" was committed against them.
I'll believe he "gets it" when he goes back to some of his big donors in the entertainment industry and starts asking them to consider backing initiatives that support consumer rights and fair use. Until then, this isn't much more than a publicity stunt.
If you are in your grace period, they can terminate you without giving a reason, but if you've been employed for some time they cannot legally fire you for refusing to perform an illegal act.
YMMV. In some states, you can technically be fired for any reason at any time, regardless of circumstances. If you can prove some kind of discriminatory or hostile workplace kinds of claims, you have some recourse for litigation. But if it's not documented, there's nothing to stop a company from firing people for no reason.
Do what? When did changing the proxy server settings on your web browser become indicative of imagination and higher problem solving skills? What problem were they trying to solve anyway? Not being able to look at stuff the school doesn't want them to look at? Stuff that, under the right circumstances, could've led to lawsuits against the school?
I bet the regulation will be there forever, more or less. From the sounds of it, it's up to the unit commanders to set the standards for their unit. There'll be some leeway to make sure every "stop at the PX and snag some milk" email doesn't have to be approved by on-high.
When I was in, back in the day, I'm willing to bet there were restrictions in place that could be applied to personal correspondence and telephone calls. Sounds like they're just updating the rules to keep up with the times. It's also not too surprising to me that the rules would be posted somewhere not everybody could read them, there'll be notes sent out to remind everybody about the new policy.
To just make sure MMOs are no longer created or supported, that way the gaming industry can get back to genres that matter and all of the losers that waste their time on WoW can commit suicide.
Fess up...you got banned for botting, didn't you?
Nah, this is what happens when the only piece of Wii hardware you can find is the controller.
Both parties are filled with people that want to place further restrictions on music, video games and the like. Heck, Lieberman mentioned by name some of the bands I enjoy listening to. Hillary wants lots of looks into this whole video game thing. And Gore's wife was a driving force in the whole PMRC thing. I haven't found a party yet that's actually for freedom.
Good thing both parties are filled with conservatives trying to squash free speech, isn't it?
New anti-RIAA bumper sticker:
"When MAC address spoofing is outlawed, only outlaws will spoof MAC addresses"
I only read the article after information regarding the original sender of the email was taken out of the email. Is this a case where a person affiliated with/employed by the parent company saw the copyrighted material and started the ball rolling? It sounds like this was a threatening letter from a company drone that would've (hopefully) been brought to a standstill had real lawyers been called in.
I wonder how much MS really makes off Windows, particularly at the consumer level, in terms of profit per unit. It's easy to see in some business lines where the profit really is (ink jet printers versus cartridge refills, concessions versus ticket prices at theaters, etc.), but it's a little blurry in software. It probably makes good business sense for MS to lower the price on their OS by $100 or so per unit and make it up in other lines of business. 'Course, I still won't upgrade until I get more or less forced into it because of DirectX 10 (damn you, gaming addiction!), but it might get them more actual sales.
Nah, CO2 has the potential to react just as badly on Class D fires. The only recommended ways I know of involve, essentially, smothering the flames entirely. Powdered copper-based extinguishers were developed, I believe, to fight fires involving lithium.
Reading the article linked off TFA about an additional protocol that people want ratified has a line about "racist and xenophobic material" means any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as a pretext for any of these factors
It's dangerous ground as "promoting or inciting" are tough to prove. Writing something in your blog about the deaths of North African teenagers being the cause of national riots could be construed as likely to incite or promote discrimination against North African's. It may be factually accurate, but that might not matter.