The logic goes something along the lines of the Employer is legally responisble for providing a safe work environment, free from threat of phyisical injury, bullying or harrasment. As the function is arranged and funded by the employer, it is considered an extension of the workplace, and all workplace protection responsibilities apply.
That's not to say that if someone criminally assulted someone else they wouldn't be held personally responsible in the eyes of the law. But an employer could potentially be see as contributing to the action if they don't ensure a safe environment.
Pretty much all serious large employers (and possibly small to medium, I haven't worked in that sector in over a decade), have codes of conduct that employees sign when they start, and annual refresher courses, stating they understand the harrasment policy and that it extends to work supported social events.
I used to work for a large multi-national (Australian division) where we used to have quite a few senior managers from the UK.
While Australians have a reputation for hard drinking, the UK guys would typically start earlier, go longer and get totally wrecked. Then be up the next morning roaring to go. I remember at one work event we were informed that the company would no longer be welcome to book accomodation at that venue because someone decided around midnight to start playing carpet bowls in the lounge around midnight, and shortly after someone else decided it was a neat idea to bowl overarm. They left holes in the walls.
It was also the culture at this compant that we had beer fridges in all the managers' offices, if you worked past 5pm it was acceptable to have a beer or wine sitting on your desk while you were working, and we had regular Friday night drinks in the office starting about 4pm.
I went from that job to working for a public utility where every site was classed as 'dry', if you had anything to drink you were not to come back onto the premises. You were warned to take your bag with you if you went to the Christmas lunch and planned to drink as you were no to come back to the office.
I'm now working for the pulic service, it's a bit of a split between the two. Not dry (they have Friday drinks), but not the hard drinking culture of the first company mentioned.
Many years ago I was playing in a Macho women with Guns game at a RP convention and I had a character who in the initial part of the adventure was determine to be too stupid to be trusted with a gun, so she was given a flashlight.
Over the course of the module she found that anything she shone the toch on died (because the other characters shot it), so when we were gearing up for the ultimate encounter and she was finally told she could have any weapon she wanted, she asked for a portable floodlight.
While IVF can certainly help. Don't assume it is a certainty.
My husband and I recently went through the IVF process after trying other options for a number of years. The statisitcs were were given (off the top of my head) were that one in seven couples required assistance to conceive, and by the time to get to the ICSI process the success rate is about 30-40%. Of embyros that are successfully fertilised, approximately 70% of the will fail to result in a pregnancy regadless of how they were fertilised (naturally or artifically such as via IVF). And that's before you factor in miscarriages.
In the first world, the average woman of child bearing age has less pregnancies than we used to even 100 years ago. Advances in medicine means more children reach adulthood, and contraception among other factors is resulting in less conceptions. It's too early to know what impact this will have in an evolutionary sense. Only time (and lots of it) will tell.
A standard foot is a standard scientific unit. Therefore 80 ft/sec is a speed measured by standard scientific units.
Um... actually the standard scientific unit is meters.
We have generally accepted conventions. It's convenient to follow them. There's nothing to say we have to, but if we don't, and we screw up in the conversion somewhere, it's our own damned fault.
Don't be an idiot.
You mean like the Hubble Telescope, if only they'd referred to my previous point...
If it were normal, I wouldn't care. Why would you? Where did you get the idea that it's normal to wake up at 7AM (or whatever time you wake up), instead of, say, 6PM? These are just arbitrary numbers, nothing more. The only reason you care is because you've been culturally ingrained to think that 5AM-11AM = "morning", 12PM = "noon", 1PM-6PM = "afternoon", and 6PM-11PM = "evening".
Culturally ingrained, and the fact that AM means before noon (anti-meridian) and PM means after noon (post-meridian) by their very definition. If you want to change this you need to start by changing the language you use to describe it.
Shift workers (and college students) adjust to getting up in the afternoon and going to bed in the morning when they want to. However our human system is designed to sleep when it's dark and wake when it's light. The current solution of time zones is actually a fairly elegant solution to give people a common language to describe local conditions and clearly communicates the current position of the sun to people regardless of their relative location. It ain't broken so quit trying to fix it.
I would also hope that if they adopted such a stupid idea, they would at least do so without the appendix AM/AM, where M represents Meridian, when the sun is at it's highest point in the sky.
Some where at home I have a copy of Encylopedia Magica from Wizards of the Coast, I think it was a D&D 3.0 product. Volumes 1 & 2 have an error in them where someone did a global find/replace of "mage" to "wizard". So through 2 entire volumes, spells do "dawizard" instead of doing "damage". It's quite amusing but a little confusing when you first encounter it.
The Blizzard official forums have a profanity filter which replaces words on it's banned list with random #$%^ type garbage. This means words like drape (another frequently used term for a cloak in WoW), grape etc... appear as d#$%^, for example. It's annoying and stupid.
I see your waistband comment and beg you to consider the situation for women who have had to change sanitary products - toilet paper really doesn't do the job for cleaning 'residue' off your hands or from under your nails (no applicator is going to keep your hands clean when step one is removing the previous tampon and you have to fish around for the string). A handbasin in the cubical would be awesome.
I also migrated forward from SoundJam on a System & workstation (Centris 610) over numerous machines and multiple iOS devices and haven't lost anything that I'm aware of.
I also have a couple of hundred CDs I still need to get around to ripping at some point for when the iCloud service comes into being.
Given the Cult of Steve, it's inevitable that the stock will take a dive initially on the announcement. However I expect it will recover after a few canny operators to the opportunity to buy 'low'.
I might have to check how to buy into the market here. (I've never bought stocks before so wouldn't know who to start.)
As a long time Apple user (since '87, I remember the dark times of the early/mid '90s), I know how bad it could get, but I'm hoping that Tim Cook has served a strong apprenticeship with Steve Jobs and will take the company to a continuing future of developing markets. If anyone knows the path Steve saw for the company, it's Tim. Only time will tell.
The also took Darryl Lea to court over trademark violation a few years back when Darryl Lea started selling chocolate in packaging a little too similar in colour to Cadburys.
I may be being naive, but sure the killer application for iPads in a corporate envirnonment is where the user needs to be mobile and use a reasonably constrained set of functions - e.g. looking up a patient's records and prescribing a course of treatment on a hopsital ward.
PCs are for operating in a fixed envirnonment with a highly varied task load?
Oddly enough, I am currently reading all the Agatha Christie novels, I'm about 8 from the end. While about 2/3s are as you have described, where the solution seems to be based on some random fact you couldn't have known as the reader, I have found that a significant number of them do have all the clues in them if you can spot them.
What I find more annoying is the assumtpion that as an educated reader you speak Latin, French, German and possibly a smattering of Italian or Spanish. In one example a key clue hinges on knowing the Russian alphabet (Murder on the Orient Express). I'm quite well read and have a university level education, but in Australian public schools, you are generally not taught donzens of languages meaning there are significant passage, often containing essential information, which are opaque to me.
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You obviously never had to deal with a Newton owner whose device needed to be sent away for service.
Their typical response was "you'll pry this from my cold, dead hands".
They were scary.
Was it an evil robot hand?
The logic goes something along the lines of the Employer is legally responisble for providing a safe work environment, free from threat of phyisical injury, bullying or harrasment. As the function is arranged and funded by the employer, it is considered an extension of the workplace, and all workplace protection responsibilities apply.
That's not to say that if someone criminally assulted someone else they wouldn't be held personally responsible in the eyes of the law. But an employer could potentially be see as contributing to the action if they don't ensure a safe environment.
Pretty much all serious large employers (and possibly small to medium, I haven't worked in that sector in over a decade), have codes of conduct that employees sign when they start, and annual refresher courses, stating they understand the harrasment policy and that it extends to work supported social events.
I used to work for a large multi-national (Australian division) where we used to have quite a few senior managers from the UK.
While Australians have a reputation for hard drinking, the UK guys would typically start earlier, go longer and get totally wrecked. Then be up the next morning roaring to go. I remember at one work event we were informed that the company would no longer be welcome to book accomodation at that venue because someone decided around midnight to start playing carpet bowls in the lounge around midnight, and shortly after someone else decided it was a neat idea to bowl overarm. They left holes in the walls.
It was also the culture at this compant that we had beer fridges in all the managers' offices, if you worked past 5pm it was acceptable to have a beer or wine sitting on your desk while you were working, and we had regular Friday night drinks in the office starting about 4pm.
I went from that job to working for a public utility where every site was classed as 'dry', if you had anything to drink you were not to come back onto the premises. You were warned to take your bag with you if you went to the Christmas lunch and planned to drink as you were no to come back to the office.
I'm now working for the pulic service, it's a bit of a split between the two. Not dry (they have Friday drinks), but not the hard drinking culture of the first company mentioned.
thank you Professor Higgins
Many years ago I was playing in a Macho women with Guns game at a RP convention and I had a character who in the initial part of the adventure was determine to be too stupid to be trusted with a gun, so she was given a flashlight.
Over the course of the module she found that anything she shone the toch on died (because the other characters shot it), so when we were gearing up for the ultimate encounter and she was finally told she could have any weapon she wanted, she asked for a portable floodlight.
While IVF can certainly help. Don't assume it is a certainty.
My husband and I recently went through the IVF process after trying other options for a number of years. The statisitcs were were given (off the top of my head) were that one in seven couples required assistance to conceive, and by the time to get to the ICSI process the success rate is about 30-40%. Of embyros that are successfully fertilised, approximately 70% of the will fail to result in a pregnancy regadless of how they were fertilised (naturally or artifically such as via IVF). And that's before you factor in miscarriages.
In the first world, the average woman of child bearing age has less pregnancies than we used to even 100 years ago. Advances in medicine means more children reach adulthood, and contraception among other factors is resulting in less conceptions. It's too early to know what impact this will have in an evolutionary sense. Only time (and lots of it) will tell.
Ego is not a dirty word. - Skyhooks
In fact, iTunes as a 3rd party product (SoundJam) which they bought and rebadged originally. I was a SoundJam user for years prior to iTunes.
From memory the product(s) which became iCal/Addressbook started out as Expresso, but I could be wrong.
A standard foot is a standard scientific unit. Therefore 80 ft/sec is a speed measured by standard scientific units.
Um... actually the standard scientific unit is meters.
We have generally accepted conventions. It's convenient to follow them. There's nothing to say we have to, but if we don't, and we screw up in the conversion somewhere, it's our own damned fault.
Don't be an idiot.
You mean like the Hubble Telescope, if only they'd referred to my previous point...
If it were normal, I wouldn't care. Why would you? Where did you get the idea that it's normal to wake up at 7AM (or whatever time you wake up), instead of, say, 6PM? These are just arbitrary numbers, nothing more. The only reason you care is because you've been culturally ingrained to think that 5AM-11AM = "morning", 12PM = "noon", 1PM-6PM = "afternoon", and 6PM-11PM = "evening".
Culturally ingrained, and the fact that AM means before noon (anti-meridian) and PM means after noon (post-meridian) by their very definition. If you want to change this you need to start by changing the language you use to describe it.
Shift workers (and college students) adjust to getting up in the afternoon and going to bed in the morning when they want to. However our human system is designed to sleep when it's dark and wake when it's light. The current solution of time zones is actually a fairly elegant solution to give people a common language to describe local conditions and clearly communicates the current position of the sun to people regardless of their relative location. It ain't broken so quit trying to fix it.
I would also hope that if they adopted such a stupid idea, they would at least do so without the appendix AM/AM, where M represents Meridian, when the sun is at it's highest point in the sky.
Some where at home I have a copy of Encylopedia Magica from Wizards of the Coast, I think it was a D&D 3.0 product. Volumes 1 & 2 have an error in them where someone did a global find/replace of "mage" to "wizard". So through 2 entire volumes, spells do "dawizard" instead of doing "damage". It's quite amusing but a little confusing when you first encounter it.
The Blizzard official forums have a profanity filter which replaces words on it's banned list with random #$%^ type garbage. This means words like drape (another frequently used term for a cloak in WoW), grape etc... appear as d#$%^, for example. It's annoying and stupid.
???
I use my iPad in bed most nights to read, browse the web or poke the Zen Garden in PvZ.
I either prop it up on my knees or hold it while lying on my side.
The biggest problem I have is if one of the cats decide to sit on my chest so that I can't see the screen.
It's slightly heavier than my husband's ereader, but the weight doesn't prevent me from comfortably using it in bed.
I see your waistband comment and beg you to consider the situation for women who have had to change sanitary products - toilet paper really doesn't do the job for cleaning 'residue' off your hands or from under your nails (no applicator is going to keep your hands clean when step one is removing the previous tampon and you have to fish around for the string). A handbasin in the cubical would be awesome.
LOL, personally I blame it on a cat walking across the keyboard.
Fezzes are cool.
I also migrated forward from SoundJam on a System & workstation (Centris 610) over numerous machines and multiple iOS devices and haven't lost anything that I'm aware of.
I also have a couple of hundred CDs I still need to get around to ripping at some point for when the iCloud service comes into being.
Given the Cult of Steve, it's inevitable that the stock will take a dive initially on the announcement. However I expect it will recover after a few canny operators to the opportunity to buy 'low'.
I might have to check how to buy into the market here. (I've never bought stocks before so wouldn't know who to start.)
As a long time Apple user (since '87, I remember the dark times of the early/mid '90s), I know how bad it could get, but I'm hoping that Tim Cook has served a strong apprenticeship with Steve Jobs and will take the company to a continuing future of developing markets. If anyone knows the path Steve saw for the company, it's Tim. Only time will tell.
The also took Darryl Lea to court over trademark violation a few years back when Darryl Lea started selling chocolate in packaging a little too similar in colour to Cadburys.
It's not Wikipedia I'd worry about...
I may be being naive, but sure the killer application for iPads in a corporate envirnonment is where the user needs to be mobile and use a reasonably constrained set of functions - e.g. looking up a patient's records and prescribing a course of treatment on a hopsital ward.
PCs are for operating in a fixed envirnonment with a highly varied task load?
Oddly enough, I am currently reading all the Agatha Christie novels, I'm about 8 from the end. While about 2/3s are as you have described, where the solution seems to be based on some random fact you couldn't have known as the reader, I have found that a significant number of them do have all the clues in them if you can spot them.
What I find more annoying is the assumtpion that as an educated reader you speak Latin, French, German and possibly a smattering of Italian or Spanish. In one example a key clue hinges on knowing the Russian alphabet (Murder on the Orient Express). I'm quite well read and have a university level education, but in Australian public schools, you are generally not taught donzens of languages meaning there are significant passage, often containing essential information, which are opaque to me.