As a university student, I used to have a sign on my fridge in the shared house that read Chocolate, Alcohol and Mixers only, Please do not waste space with unnecessary items such as vegetables.
I also held the theory that an Irish Coffee was the perfect food containing all the major food groups: Chocolate, Caffeine, Sugars, Fats (Cream), Alcohol.
We both know this is about as likely to happen as a dog ceasing to lick their balls. They do it because they can and it seems like a good idea at the time.
IMNA(P)L, does it need to infringe on ALL claims, or is one claim sufficient for it to be considered infringing? You've stated that in your opinion claims 2, 7, 8 and 10 aren't relevant, what about claims 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9?
Mostly the number of fast food wrappers around our house is a function of being about 2 blocks from a McDonalds and getting them blown into our yard. I get really tired of picking them up every other day.
Not sure if it's a good thing that I saw most of the content yesterday by clicking and dragging. It took quite a while. I missed the stuff in the sky, but saw all the underground and surface events.
Not that I really post to it much anymore, but I pay over double your annual hosting charges for my 'crappy LiveJournal blog'. Does that make it a real, live, actual website? We also have our own domain name, but don't have a webpage up, just use it for email. In my self awareness I know that I don't really have that much to say of value beyond making the odd post on a social network, and most of that is behind some kind of pseudonym.
I suppose when I got out, I might just rape a nice looking girl so that I at least committed the crime I did the time for.
I get that you are probably joking (at least I hope you are), but I really want you to think about what you are joking about for a minute. Because *you* got unjustly locked up, you have decided that an innocent woman who has nothing to do with the original case should have her life destroyed in an incredibly violating way. And you are treating it as a casual throw away line.
Do you have a sister, girlfriend, wife or mother? How would you feel if someone raped them? How would you feel if someone raped them and the reason was they felt that society owed them a rape and they didn't care who the victim was and your loved one was chosen.
Can you see why this is something that shouldn't be joked about.
I'm glad things worked out for you. My husband was misdiagnosed as epileptic for nearly a decade before his apnea was correctly diagnosed. According to his specialist he rates about a 3.5 on the 1-3 scale for severity. He has acquired amnesia covering several years from where his condition meant he couldn't form long term memories and often couldn't distinguish between short and long term memories and was hallucinating frequently.
I do most of the driving even though he never lost his license just to be sure that if there was an accident the insurance company can't weasel out of paying because he was behind the wheel - even though he would never drive if he was experiencing pre-seizure symptoms.
He spent nearly 5 years out of the fulltime workforce after he was recovering from his lowest point medically, and we have been blessed with friends in positions to recommend him for roles since getting back into full time work where the employers have known about his condition upfront and been fabulous about dealing with it. However any role he interviewed for where he mentioned it outside of interviews where he had a personal recommendation from an existing employee have resulted in a closed door.
As the spouse of someone with a chronic medical condition, I feel I have to disclose it when I interview because I periodically get calls asking me to take him home because he's collapsed at work and isn't competent to make his own way home unescorted.
He currently has a application support role with a large university. One of his coping mechanisms for memory issues is that he documents EVERYTHING to the nth degree. He is highly organised at work, because he needs familiarity. He is good at researching solutions and can follow instructions/read the manual. It makes him good at his job in a way some people who rely on memory and 'wing it' aren't.
The 40 hours per week isn't always the biggest problem. It's the random out of hours work that some sectors of the industry requires. For many people with physical disabilities and mental disabilities, they need to manage energy reserves, sleep cycles and predictability to manage stress. Being on call is about the worst thing you can do to people in that situation.
People frequently underestimate the skill sets required to be a good small business owner, even when you are the sole employee.
I have a strong work ethic, I have worked in some form or another since I was 14, I am generally motivated to do a good job and get tasks complete, I chase things down and seek extra work if I feel my load is light.
I would suck running my own business. I loathe job hunting because I am introverted and hate the whole sales aspect of marketing myself to recruiters or potential employers. The though of having to market myself day-in, day-out to keep the mortgage paid gives me nightmares. Everyone who is self employed is in sales on some level, I can't handle that.
Some people revel in that part of being their own boss. Others don't. Some of us are self aware enough to know whether it will work for us or not before we sink our life savings into finding out.
How is accommodating someone with a mental disability any different that dealing with someone with a physical disability?
If you have someone at work who is in a wheel chair, you would need to ensure there is access for them, everything they need to do their job can be reached from the chair, that in the event of an evacuation their location is rapidly determined and they are evacuated along with everyone else even though they can't take the stairs.
If a person is deaf you have to adapt meeting practices, phones, etc..., if a person is blind they may need screen readers or braille output devices. If a person is recovering from an injury they may be on reduced hours and reduced duties.
If you, as an employer, have decided that this person will add benefit to your company sufficient for them to be on the payroll (or volunteers list), then you have a responsibility to make it a safe workplace for them.
My husband has a medical condition which can result in him having fits and seizures. It can be triggered by stress and heat among other conditions. His work has ensured that the first aid officers on his floor know how to manage someone having a seizure. They have provided a standing fan near his desk so he can control the air flow if it's a warm day and he needs more breeze than the aircon is providing as a base. His coworkers have my number in their phones and visa-versa so that we can communicate if he has an episode. My boss is aware that I keep a chat window open to him during the day to monitor him (especially on bad days) so that I can call his boss if I notice him starting to have symptoms (aphasia is often a warning sign).
His boss has found him to be an excellent employee who occasionally has bad days. The good days outweigh the bad days. Lots of places wouldn't consider him knowing he is subject to seizures.
I get incredibly angry listening to policy wonks talking about getting the disabled back to work and off benefits. That's all well and good, but how do you get employers to take a chance on someone with a medical condition which may unpredictably affect their capacity to work. It's incredibly tempting to lie about it in the recruitment process, but it's likely to come up before your trial period is over - and then your boss has to assess that if you lied about that, what else may you be deceiving him about.
Most people with some kind of mental disability have triggers. Your responsibility as a boss is to provide them with a 'safe' environment where you minimise their exposure to trigger situations - for example, don't put them in a customer facing role, keep them dealing with internal staff who are familiar with some degree of routine. If you take on someone with a chronic medical condition (mental or physical) then you sign on for the possibility that they may have medical absences on potentially short notice.
But guess what. You sign on for the same thing with parents who may have to take time off to look after sick kids. Or people with partners or older parents or siblings who may have to take carers leave to look after other members of their family. Or singles who may have accidents, injuries or just a cold or flu at various times of the year.
So as a nutritionist, what would you say is the optimal diet for an early 40's man to shed excess weight? My husband is trying to diet at present and is struggling with it. He has the added complication of chronic illness related seizures which can make exercise 'interesting'.
If people were going to live long enough to see the consequences, maybe they would care more about the environment. Maybe it's still wishful thinking, provided they are happy with their McInsect Burger and Plankton Fries.
User experience really is one of the few things where "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like" really applies. Randomuser may not be able to articulate why they prefer a particular user interface, but that doesn't make them any less qualified to decide which one they find the easiest or most comfortable to use.
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As a university student, I used to have a sign on my fridge in the shared house that read Chocolate, Alcohol and Mixers only, Please do not waste space with unnecessary items such as vegetables.
I also held the theory that an Irish Coffee was the perfect food containing all the major food groups: Chocolate, Caffeine, Sugars, Fats (Cream), Alcohol.
We both know this is about as likely to happen as a dog ceasing to lick their balls. They do it because they can and it seems like a good idea at the time.
IMNA(P)L, does it need to infringe on ALL claims, or is one claim sufficient for it to be considered infringing? You've stated that in your opinion claims 2, 7, 8 and 10 aren't relevant, what about claims 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9?
Mostly the number of fast food wrappers around our house is a function of being about 2 blocks from a McDonalds and getting them blown into our yard. I get really tired of picking them up every other day.
Only there are 2 whales (falling) and no bowl of petunias.
There were of course two missiles in the source material.
Not sure if it's a good thing that I saw most of the content yesterday by clicking and dragging. It took quite a while. I missed the stuff in the sky, but saw all the underground and surface events.
I know I found a blue whale, an x-wing and the submarine (it was subterranean).
Don't you mean a RAZR?
IIRC it only affects high resolution colour printers and the dataglyph is printed in yellow ink/toner.
Despite your skepticism, it was intended as an anti-counterfeiting measure, initiated by the Secret Service not the FBI.
I don't want your website - I want YouTube, I want Slashdot, I want quality journalism, I want music.
I'm glad there's a comma between I want Slashdot and I want quality journalism. :)
Not that I really post to it much anymore, but I pay over double your annual hosting charges for my 'crappy LiveJournal blog'. Does that make it a real, live, actual website? We also have our own domain name, but don't have a webpage up, just use it for email. In my self awareness I know that I don't really have that much to say of value beyond making the odd post on a social network, and most of that is behind some kind of pseudonym.
Check out Max Barry's Jennifer Government for an example of a book set in a world where product placement is king.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
I suppose when I got out, I might just rape a nice looking girl so that I at least committed the crime I did the time for.
I get that you are probably joking (at least I hope you are), but I really want you to think about what you are joking about for a minute. Because *you* got unjustly locked up, you have decided that an innocent woman who has nothing to do with the original case should have her life destroyed in an incredibly violating way. And you are treating it as a casual throw away line.
Do you have a sister, girlfriend, wife or mother? How would you feel if someone raped them? How would you feel if someone raped them and the reason was they felt that society owed them a rape and they didn't care who the victim was and your loved one was chosen.
Can you see why this is something that shouldn't be joked about.
Gosh darn it, and I so wanted to know what the proximity of my college cluster was to my work cluster (what does that mean anyway?)
Have you checked down the back of the sofa?
I'm glad things worked out for you. My husband was misdiagnosed as epileptic for nearly a decade before his apnea was correctly diagnosed. According to his specialist he rates about a 3.5 on the 1-3 scale for severity. He has acquired amnesia covering several years from where his condition meant he couldn't form long term memories and often couldn't distinguish between short and long term memories and was hallucinating frequently.
I do most of the driving even though he never lost his license just to be sure that if there was an accident the insurance company can't weasel out of paying because he was behind the wheel - even though he would never drive if he was experiencing pre-seizure symptoms.
He spent nearly 5 years out of the fulltime workforce after he was recovering from his lowest point medically, and we have been blessed with friends in positions to recommend him for roles since getting back into full time work where the employers have known about his condition upfront and been fabulous about dealing with it. However any role he interviewed for where he mentioned it outside of interviews where he had a personal recommendation from an existing employee have resulted in a closed door.
As the spouse of someone with a chronic medical condition, I feel I have to disclose it when I interview because I periodically get calls asking me to take him home because he's collapsed at work and isn't competent to make his own way home unescorted.
He currently has a application support role with a large university. One of his coping mechanisms for memory issues is that he documents EVERYTHING to the nth degree. He is highly organised at work, because he needs familiarity. He is good at researching solutions and can follow instructions/read the manual. It makes him good at his job in a way some people who rely on memory and 'wing it' aren't.
The 40 hours per week isn't always the biggest problem. It's the random out of hours work that some sectors of the industry requires. For many people with physical disabilities and mental disabilities, they need to manage energy reserves, sleep cycles and predictability to manage stress. Being on call is about the worst thing you can do to people in that situation.
People frequently underestimate the skill sets required to be a good small business owner, even when you are the sole employee.
I have a strong work ethic, I have worked in some form or another since I was 14, I am generally motivated to do a good job and get tasks complete, I chase things down and seek extra work if I feel my load is light.
I would suck running my own business. I loathe job hunting because I am introverted and hate the whole sales aspect of marketing myself to recruiters or potential employers. The though of having to market myself day-in, day-out to keep the mortgage paid gives me nightmares. Everyone who is self employed is in sales on some level, I can't handle that.
Some people revel in that part of being their own boss. Others don't. Some of us are self aware enough to know whether it will work for us or not before we sink our life savings into finding out.
How is accommodating someone with a mental disability any different that dealing with someone with a physical disability?
If you have someone at work who is in a wheel chair, you would need to ensure there is access for them, everything they need to do their job can be reached from the chair, that in the event of an evacuation their location is rapidly determined and they are evacuated along with everyone else even though they can't take the stairs.
If a person is deaf you have to adapt meeting practices, phones, etc..., if a person is blind they may need screen readers or braille output devices. If a person is recovering from an injury they may be on reduced hours and reduced duties.
If you, as an employer, have decided that this person will add benefit to your company sufficient for them to be on the payroll (or volunteers list), then you have a responsibility to make it a safe workplace for them.
My husband has a medical condition which can result in him having fits and seizures. It can be triggered by stress and heat among other conditions. His work has ensured that the first aid officers on his floor know how to manage someone having a seizure. They have provided a standing fan near his desk so he can control the air flow if it's a warm day and he needs more breeze than the aircon is providing as a base. His coworkers have my number in their phones and visa-versa so that we can communicate if he has an episode. My boss is aware that I keep a chat window open to him during the day to monitor him (especially on bad days) so that I can call his boss if I notice him starting to have symptoms (aphasia is often a warning sign).
His boss has found him to be an excellent employee who occasionally has bad days. The good days outweigh the bad days. Lots of places wouldn't consider him knowing he is subject to seizures.
I get incredibly angry listening to policy wonks talking about getting the disabled back to work and off benefits. That's all well and good, but how do you get employers to take a chance on someone with a medical condition which may unpredictably affect their capacity to work. It's incredibly tempting to lie about it in the recruitment process, but it's likely to come up before your trial period is over - and then your boss has to assess that if you lied about that, what else may you be deceiving him about.
Most people with some kind of mental disability have triggers. Your responsibility as a boss is to provide them with a 'safe' environment where you minimise their exposure to trigger situations - for example, don't put them in a customer facing role, keep them dealing with internal staff who are familiar with some degree of routine. If you take on someone with a chronic medical condition (mental or physical) then you sign on for the possibility that they may have medical absences on potentially short notice.
But guess what. You sign on for the same thing with parents who may have to take time off to look after sick kids. Or people with partners or older parents or siblings who may have to take carers leave to look after other members of their family. Or singles who may have accidents, injuries or just a cold or flu at various times of the year.
It was a really cool evening, made even neater by seeing so many familiar faces.
So as a nutritionist, what would you say is the optimal diet for an early 40's man to shed excess weight? My husband is trying to diet at present and is struggling with it. He has the added complication of chronic illness related seizures which can make exercise 'interesting'.
If people were going to live long enough to see the consequences, maybe they would care more about the environment. Maybe it's still wishful thinking, provided they are happy with their McInsect Burger and Plankton Fries.
User experience really is one of the few things where "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like" really applies. Randomuser may not be able to articulate why they prefer a particular user interface, but that doesn't make them any less qualified to decide which one they find the easiest or most comfortable to use.
Make sure you have a 'Plan B' before the day in case things don't work out though.