Kind of. You're presented with a blank page, it then takes 4 or 5 seconds to load the text "Sideways Dictionary" at the bottom of the page. Not wildly impressed.
Content seems to be largely snippets worthy of BadAnalogyGuy.
Anecdotal proof of this is right here on/., where many many people respond to the "linear" text messages that appear in front of them by reading only the last few words, and then they post a reply.
But they don't read the whole thing as a gestalt, they just identify a couple of key words (government, socialism, Apple, taxes, or whatever) and press the auto-rant button.
If it ain't worth sayin' to them in person, it very likely ain't worth sayin', just sayin'.
Yes, because everyone's friends and family live within a short walk of each other, just like back in the days when we all lived in villages of a couple of hundred people at most.
I'd trust it more if it didn't have a fallible human behind the wheel.
I trust computers not to drink, drive sleepy, fiddle with the radio, talk to the hounddog on the CB, text cousin Willy, be aware of what was happening around it for a full 360 degrees every microsecond.
Yes, but can you really trust them not to be evil?
On the contrary. Once the British leave the neo-conservative corporatocracy called the EU, they at least have the opportunity to become human again. The British can choose to be governed by a democratic power instead of lobbyists. Whether they do so is off course the question. Much of the neo-conservative belief system came from people like Margaret Thatcher after all.
Whatever you think of Maggie T's beliefs, linking her philosophically to the EU is, um, counter-intuitive to say the least.
what if he was hired for oncall cyber security incident support for secure environments?
Then that fact would presumably have come up in the job interview, would it not?
You don't turn up for work and get told on day one "oh by the way you're going to be based in Antarctica for the next two years, hope you packed a jumper in your briefcase".
If you can't meet the requirements a specific job needs, the employer has a right to not hire you or to fire you. Promises of work-life balance are subjective, and it's up to the employer to decide their policy. It's up to the employee to decide whether or not they like the company. It's definitely not up to the government to decide. I feel bad for the guy, but he hasn't really been wronged. He might have a case, though, if he can show damages from thinking he had a job, and lost time looking for another job.
A classic example of the libertarian fallacy that all contract negotiations are undertaken by people with equal power.
The reason you have to have "the government" interfere is precisely because employers have basically all the power.
And no, most employees are not the special snowflake rockstar genius programmers that apparently comprise the bulk of the slashdot readership.
Due to this page http://www.baesystems.com/en/c... they are pretty much screwed any where in the world, when that page hits the court.
The page specifically states that it is for "Careers in the UK". Last time I checked, the state of Massachusetts was not part of the United Kingdom... It hasn't been ruled by English overlords for over 200 years.;-)
This is the US Benefits Page. Note that there is no "take care of dying wife" leave, but there is "bereavement" leave for *after* she dies.:-O
The point is that the benefits in the UK are minimal by UK standards, so it is reasonable to infer that they will also be minimal by US standards in the US too.
For instance, 27 days annual leave probably sounds like some sort of mad socialist dream to most US readers, but even the stingiest of employers here will give you 20 days + bank (public) holidays).
Ok, then I'm pretty sure you can come up with a scenario where someone agreeing to work beyond his normal working hours from home is a reason to fire him.
easy. this was the cyber security team at BAE, a well known defense supplier. If he was hired as part of a incident response team dealing with classified environments with his role then he could easily have requirements to come into the office after hours as many environments cannot be accessed remotely. I have had that exact scenario myself working with another defense contractor.
Surely if you were recruiting for a job which requires someone to be physically available after hours (or travel away from home half the month, or whatever) this would be discussed at the interview, and put in the job contract?
I thought even libertarians agreed that you'd have to have some sort of legal process to enforce contracts, etc?
Whether you call it "paying tax to the government" or "a compulsory private insurance arrangement" you've got to pay for a legal system and have enforcement capabilities somewhere/somehow.
For those blissfully unaware of the existence of Katie Hopkins, she's a former UK Apprentice contestant and all-round pretty shitty human being, who now makes her living out of being "controversial," and is one of the most widely hated "celebrities" in the country. Five minutes with her would make spending the whole night with Piers Morgan seem pleasant by comparison.
She's basically a professional right wing troll, so I imagine the majority of the slashdot audience will be on her side.
You need to take mental health into affect too. In many places, without DST people would be starting work before sunrise, and going home in a dark. Lack of sunlight for at least part of your day can be a cause of depression. Where I live, there's only 7 hours' of daylight in winter.
Then logically, businesses should cut their working hours to 5 a day in the winter, to allow an hour's commute each way in daylight.
I've heard this over and over again - it was even a movie - but where do people work 9-5? 8-5 with a nominal hour for lunch is common for businesses, and 10-6 (no lunch) is common for retail, but I've never worked a job where you were expected to show up at 9.
Here in the UK the standard office hours are still 9 to 5, i.e. you would expect to be able to ring up a business at 9.01 or 4.59 and have someone answer the phone.
days when it's dark when I go to work and dark when I go home
What we need is to do daylight saving time twice a day during the winter, so we get an extra hour of daylight in the morning AND an extra hour of daylight in the evening. We could catch up in the summer.
Personally, I believe it's only the taxi-government cartel preventing this.
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Kind of. You're presented with a blank page, it then takes 4 or 5 seconds to load the text "Sideways Dictionary" at the bottom of the page. Not wildly impressed.
Content seems to be largely snippets worthy of BadAnalogyGuy.
Anecdotal proof of this is right here on /., where many many people respond to the "linear" text messages that appear in front of them by reading only the last few words, and then they post a reply.
But they don't read the whole thing as a gestalt, they just identify a couple of key words (government, socialism, Apple, taxes, or whatever) and press the auto-rant button.
What is so wrong with war? Thinning the herd every once in a while is good for the species.
Even assuming you want a human society built on pure natural selection, in nature it's the old and weak who get picked off, not the young and strong.
In wars, the soldiers are mostly young and fit.
If it ain't worth sayin' to them in person, it very likely ain't worth sayin', just sayin'.
Yes, because everyone's friends and family live within a short walk of each other, just like back in the days when we all lived in villages of a couple of hundred people at most.
There is no logical reason for cat in French to be "le chat" instead of "la chat" but you still need to differentiate between a male and female cat.
I'd trust it more if it didn't have a fallible human behind the wheel.
I trust computers not to drink, drive sleepy, fiddle with the radio, talk to the hounddog on the CB, text cousin Willy, be aware of what was happening around it for a full 360 degrees every microsecond.
Yes, but can you really trust them not to be evil?
Or isn't there a master power switch.
When I change the blade on my circular saw table, I always unplug it first. Even though I know I won't be touching the "on" switch, I don't trust it.
I somehow doubt you're allowed to turn off the whole factory at the mains just because you're moving into a different room.
During the hiring process he should have said he could only work part-time for the first couple months before transitioning to full-time.
No, he was able to work full time, just not overtime at the office.
I suppose in US terms that means part time, but not to the rest of the world.
Yes, you cannot work more than 10 hours a day
Bullshit. You can't be forced to work more than 10 hours a day, that's all. You can always opt out.
Thanks for more proof that most of the arguments for Brexit were built on a combination of ignorance and lies.
The result of one referendum is not the be all and end all of UK democracy.
On the contrary. Once the British leave the neo-conservative corporatocracy called the EU, they at least have the opportunity to become human again. The British can choose to be governed by a democratic power instead of lobbyists. Whether they do so is off course the question. Much of the neo-conservative belief system came from people like Margaret Thatcher after all.
Whatever you think of Maggie T's beliefs, linking her philosophically to the EU is, um, counter-intuitive to say the least.
what if he was hired for oncall cyber security incident support for secure environments?
Then that fact would presumably have come up in the job interview, would it not?
You don't turn up for work and get told on day one "oh by the way you're going to be based in Antarctica for the next two years, hope you packed a jumper in your briefcase".
If you can't meet the requirements a specific job needs, the employer has a right to not hire you or to fire you. Promises of work-life balance are subjective, and it's up to the employer to decide their policy. It's up to the employee to decide whether or not they like the company. It's definitely not up to the government to decide. I feel bad for the guy, but he hasn't really been wronged. He might have a case, though, if he can show damages from thinking he had a job, and lost time looking for another job.
A classic example of the libertarian fallacy that all contract negotiations are undertaken by people with equal power.
The reason you have to have "the government" interfere is precisely because employers have basically all the power.
And no, most employees are not the special snowflake rockstar genius programmers that apparently comprise the bulk of the slashdot readership.
I have such a position supervising a couple of large dev teams and I too would nod, smile and say ok, great etc etc and then immediately proceed to HR
You're a really poor supervisor/manager then.
Due to this page http://www.baesystems.com/en/c... they are pretty much screwed any where in the world, when that page hits the court.
The page specifically states that it is for "Careers in the UK". Last time I checked, the state of Massachusetts was not part of the United Kingdom... It hasn't been ruled by English overlords for over 200 years. ;-)
This is the US Benefits Page. Note that there is no "take care of dying wife" leave, but there is "bereavement" leave for *after* she dies. :-O
The point is that the benefits in the UK are minimal by UK standards, so it is reasonable to infer that they will also be minimal by US standards in the US too.
For instance, 27 days annual leave probably sounds like some sort of mad socialist dream to most US readers, but even the stingiest of employers here will give you 20 days + bank (public) holidays).
Ok, then I'm pretty sure you can come up with a scenario where someone agreeing to work beyond his normal working hours from home is a reason to fire him.
easy. this was the cyber security team at BAE, a well known defense supplier. If he was hired as part of a incident response team dealing with classified environments with his role then he could easily have requirements to come into the office after hours as many environments cannot be accessed remotely. I have had that exact scenario myself working with another defense contractor.
Surely if you were recruiting for a job which requires someone to be physically available after hours (or travel away from home half the month, or whatever) this would be discussed at the interview, and put in the job contract?
I find it amusing that you are using Darwinian natural selection as a religious proof.
even criticizing this verdict could see you sued by the judge and fined or jail for contempt of court.
No. It couldn't.
Whether you call it "paying tax to the government" or "a compulsory private insurance arrangement" you've got to pay for a legal system and have enforcement capabilities somewhere/somehow.
For those blissfully unaware of the existence of Katie Hopkins, she's a former UK Apprentice contestant and all-round pretty shitty human being, who now makes her living out of being "controversial," and is one of the most widely hated "celebrities" in the country. Five minutes with her would make spending the whole night with Piers Morgan seem pleasant by comparison.
She's basically a professional right wing troll, so I imagine the majority of the slashdot audience will be on her side.
yes. obviously you don't understand time, clocks, nor timezones.
But which of us, apart from Gene Ray, does?
You need to take mental health into affect too. In many places, without DST people would be starting work before sunrise, and going home in a dark. Lack of sunlight for at least part of your day can be a cause of depression. Where I live, there's only 7 hours' of daylight in winter.
Then logically, businesses should cut their working hours to 5 a day in the winter, to allow an hour's commute each way in daylight.
Somehow, I don't think this will happen.
I've heard this over and over again - it was even a movie - but where do people work 9-5? 8-5 with a nominal hour for lunch is common for businesses, and 10-6 (no lunch) is common for retail, but I've never worked a job where you were expected to show up at 9.
Here in the UK the standard office hours are still 9 to 5, i.e. you would expect to be able to ring up a business at 9.01 or 4.59 and have someone answer the phone.
DST is useful if you give a fuck about the sun. Guess what. I don't.
Next argument?
I think it's fair to say you'd miss it if it was gone though.
days when it's dark when I go to work and dark when I go home
What we need is to do daylight saving time twice a day during the winter, so we get an extra hour of daylight in the morning AND an extra hour of daylight in the evening. We could catch up in the summer.
Personally, I believe it's only the taxi-government cartel preventing this.