I'm pretty sure you can't tell someone their job is moving, and that if they don't like it, they can just quit, and get no compensation. IANAL but my state, Texas, is an "at will" employment state. The employer OR employee can end the employment relationship at any time for any reason as long as it's not an illegal reason e.g. (race, religion etc). You have zero recourse.
Not sure if you are trolling or not. But I'll bite.
You're lucky if you don't see disinformation in your Inbox. I get several fwd: hoaxs a day from well meaning but idiotic relatives. To think that corporations/politicians aren't involved in the ones that pertain to products is naive. http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html Just glancing at the fist 3 they all pertain to either a business or politician. Like all good hoaxes they contain a grain of truth.
Yeah I should have paid closer attention to the GP I was originally responding to. I was trying to answer a question which upon reading it again he didn't really ask. So my answer doesn't make sense. You did give a great explanation of how the lotto really works. I was simply trying to point out that your not better off by trying to buy more tickets. So I used the simplest example I could think of, a coin flip.
The problem with that "sure fire" method to win is multi winners. Often On the big jackpots they end up split. So even if I had 107 million dollars to buy all the combos I'm still making a wager that I'm the only winner.
Assuming you choose different numbers for each ticket, your odds of winning would go up however your odds of losing go up at the same level.
Take your 50/50 example. You buy 1 ticket you have an equal chance to win and lose. you buy 2 tickets you have a 100% to win one and 100% to lose one. still 50/50 odds. In other words buy 1 ticket or 2 each have the same odds. The real question you should ask yourself is how much voluntary tax do you want to pay? I pay enough in tax's, therefore I don't pay extra to the lotto.
If I was facebook I'd accept Google's offer as well. It'd be a funny headline "google and microsoft now own 1.6% of facebook each". Google paid half price and still well more than it was worth. Now that would be a great day for facebook. One thing the first dotcom bubble should have taught us all, Take the money while the money is good.
I used to be very protective of my email the same way. However no matter how hard I tried one of my relatives, or business relationships would be careless with my address and it would inevitably end up on many spammers lists. I tried several anti spam tools but I couldn't get any that were satisfactory to me. It was getting so bad I was ready toss my email and get a new one. Which would have been a real shame, as my email is myFirstname@Mylastname.com. Anyway I signed up for gmail's my domain deal. Since then my account has been spam free. Well the inbox is spam free the spam folder usually has about 3000 spams(they are auto deleted after 30 days.) Now I don't care. Out of habit I'm still somewhat cautious But I don't really have to be.
> There's still a few emails that never made the transfer, and I'm not completely sure why yet.
I have had that issue with certain attachments. When Google pulls email from my work account if it contains an exe or a zip with an exe inside. However gmail sends me a message each time that says "We were unable to download the message with "this subject" due to a suspicious attachment". That could be the reason.
I like your idealism. But many people can't afford the luxury of that idealism. And that was something else the story said that turnover was incredibly high. No doubt many of the workers have your same sense of duty. But at the end of the day those workers that quit still didn't fix the problem. I wish I could find that article...
>Maybe the Patent Office should just be a kind of notary who only records when someone came up with the idea
They actually have one of those it's called the "copyright office". IANAL so I'm not exactly sure what are the different protections afforded by each. My guess would be from a practical point of view you could file your idea with the copyright office and prevent yourself from being sued for infringing on someone else's patent that was filed after you filed. however if you wanted the protection of a patent to sue others then you better go through the patent process. As bad as it is, It's all we've got.
That was my first instinct too. Just the other day I heard on NPR I believe, they were talking about the length of time it takes for a patent to get through is 24 months. They also said that the each patent officer has a quota to get through and the quota has stayed the same since the offices inception even though the complexity of the patents and the amount of documentation that comes with them have increased several fold. They said that many patent examiners get caught up with their quota over their vacation. To be sure the system is broken but it's not the the workers fault. I wish I could find the source. maybe somebody else can.
you can also do it on a windows box. just have iis's deafault 404 error page point to a location with the cgi query string as a search term. I just did it on a clients website yesterday.
Great point. Pseudo-science that helps your side is still not science. The "Truth" in this case is bad enough without exaggeration. It's too bad some feel the need to lower themselves to the opposing sides level.
The scientist who is sharing the prize with Gore is "90%" sure we are the cause of global warming. That's how you can usually tell good science from fake Pseudo-science or belief. 90% sure, not we are going to turn earth into an oven within 10 years. 90% probable, That's real science. It's not sexy. It's not certain. It's what this set of data and research has led us to understand. If someone says they are 100% percent sure of something in the realm of science they are often stating their belief.
I saw an IMAX film about the shuttle once. The viewers got to "Ride" down the zip line. It was fun. It seems like a much cheaper way to get to the ground fast.
Maybe I misunderstood your post. But once you fake the screen via modified html running locally or a photoshopped screen scrape it would be just as easy to make an un-doctered video of the false image on the screen. Not that the whole thing isn't legit to begin with.
I wonder if the ID proponents do feel more validated will they agree that the scientists that created the life are far closer to being a god than they will ever be?
I have a copy of word 2007. It doesn't allow me to save or open odf. I just checked ms website for an ODF plugin. No luck. A third party plugin may exist.
Although you are incorrect about who will take the hit from fraudulent activities. It's the businesses that will take the hit. As any business that accepts credit cards will tell you fraudulent charges comes straight out of the businesses pocket not the banks.
The merchant is generally liable for credit card charge backs, even when the bank has authorized the transaction. After a merchant is stung by a fraud, the credit card processors often hike their rates, citing increased risk. The merchant also risks losing their accounts with the card companies if their fraud rate gets too high.
You make a good point about Fry's re-shrink wrapping. I usually check and try to grab the item from the back of the stack.
However I've had great results returning items to the Frys in Houston (the one on N 45) They never questioned me. I say the ram is bad. no problem they don't even check. They give store credit or new ram (your choice) same with motherboards. I even returned one particular type of mother board twice it seemed to be a defective batch. I finally just took the store credit.
'Not to mention that in our system it actually costs more to kill someone than to keep them in prison for life.'
The increased cost associated with killing someone is not due to the method of execution. It's the increased cost to house them in a separate more secure part of the prison, "Death row". Not to mention the automatic appeals process that is not afforded to a "normal" prisoner.
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Not sure if you are trolling or not. But I'll bite. You're lucky if you don't see disinformation in your Inbox. I get several fwd: hoaxs a day from well meaning but idiotic relatives. To think that corporations/politicians aren't involved in the ones that pertain to products is naive. http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html Just glancing at the fist 3 they all pertain to either a business or politician. Like all good hoaxes they contain a grain of truth.
Yeah I should have paid closer attention to the GP I was originally responding to. I was trying to answer a question which upon reading it again he didn't really ask. So my answer doesn't make sense. You did give a great explanation of how the lotto really works. I was simply trying to point out that your not better off by trying to buy more tickets. So I used the simplest example I could think of, a coin flip.
Spoken like a true lotto player! Good luck to sir. Remember play early play often. Every dollar you spend is .5 I don't have to.
The problem with that "sure fire" method to win is multi winners. Often On the big jackpots they end up split. So even if I had 107 million dollars to buy all the combos I'm still making a wager that I'm the only winner.
Assuming you choose different numbers for each ticket, your odds of winning would go up however your odds of losing go up at the same level. Take your 50/50 example. You buy 1 ticket you have an equal chance to win and lose. you buy 2 tickets you have a 100% to win one and 100% to lose one. still 50/50 odds. In other words buy 1 ticket or 2 each have the same odds. The real question you should ask yourself is how much voluntary tax do you want to pay? I pay enough in tax's, therefore I don't pay extra to the lotto.
If I was facebook I'd accept Google's offer as well. It'd be a funny headline "google and microsoft now own 1.6% of facebook each". Google paid half price and still well more than it was worth. Now that would be a great day for facebook. One thing the first dotcom bubble should have taught us all, Take the money while the money is good.
I used to be very protective of my email the same way. However no matter how hard I tried one of my relatives, or business relationships would be careless with my address and it would inevitably end up on many spammers lists. I tried several anti spam tools but I couldn't get any that were satisfactory to me. It was getting so bad I was ready toss my email and get a new one. Which would have been a real shame, as my email is myFirstname@Mylastname.com. Anyway I signed up for gmail's my domain deal. Since then my account has been spam free. Well the inbox is spam free the spam folder usually has about 3000 spams(they are auto deleted after 30 days.) Now I don't care. Out of habit I'm still somewhat cautious But I don't really have to be.
> There's still a few emails that never made the transfer, and I'm not completely sure why yet. I have had that issue with certain attachments. When Google pulls email from my work account if it contains an exe or a zip with an exe inside. However gmail sends me a message each time that says "We were unable to download the message with "this subject" due to a suspicious attachment". That could be the reason.
I like your idealism. But many people can't afford the luxury of that idealism. And that was something else the story said that turnover was incredibly high. No doubt many of the workers have your same sense of duty. But at the end of the day those workers that quit still didn't fix the problem. I wish I could find that article...
>Maybe the Patent Office should just be a kind of notary who only records when someone came up with the idea They actually have one of those it's called the "copyright office". IANAL so I'm not exactly sure what are the different protections afforded by each. My guess would be from a practical point of view you could file your idea with the copyright office and prevent yourself from being sued for infringing on someone else's patent that was filed after you filed. however if you wanted the protection of a patent to sue others then you better go through the patent process. As bad as it is, It's all we've got.
That was my first instinct too. Just the other day I heard on NPR I believe, they were talking about the length of time it takes for a patent to get through is 24 months. They also said that the each patent officer has a quota to get through and the quota has stayed the same since the offices inception even though the complexity of the patents and the amount of documentation that comes with them have increased several fold. They said that many patent examiners get caught up with their quota over their vacation. To be sure the system is broken but it's not the the workers fault. I wish I could find the source. maybe somebody else can.
Filed: August 23, 2004 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,287,042.PN.&OS=PN/7,287,042&RS=PN/7,287,042
you can also do it on a windows box. just have iis's deafault 404 error page point to a location with the cgi query string as a search term. I just did it on a clients website yesterday.
Great point. Pseudo-science that helps your side is still not science. The "Truth" in this case is bad enough without exaggeration. It's too bad some feel the need to lower themselves to the opposing sides level.
The scientist who is sharing the prize with Gore is "90%" sure we are the cause of global warming. That's how you can usually tell good science from fake Pseudo-science or belief. 90% sure, not we are going to turn earth into an oven within 10 years. 90% probable, That's real science. It's not sexy. It's not certain. It's what this set of data and research has led us to understand. If someone says they are 100% percent sure of something in the realm of science they are often stating their belief.
> I forget the interesting euphemism they had for 'lying' on the phone... anyone remember?
Pretexting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(computer_security)
I saw an IMAX film about the shuttle once. The viewers got to "Ride" down the zip line. It was fun. It seems like a much cheaper way to get to the ground fast.
Maybe I misunderstood your post. But once you fake the screen via modified html running locally or a photoshopped screen scrape it would be just as easy to make an un-doctered video of the false image on the screen. Not that the whole thing isn't legit to begin with.
I wonder if the ID proponents do feel more validated will they agree that the scientists that created the life are far closer to being a god than they will ever be?
I have a copy of word 2007. It doesn't allow me to save or open odf. I just checked ms website for an ODF plugin. No luck. A third party plugin may exist.
Great points about the vulnerabilities.
Although you are incorrect about who will take the hit from fraudulent activities. It's the businesses that will take the hit. As any business that accepts credit cards will tell you fraudulent charges comes straight out of the businesses pocket not the banks.
http://www.wiscocomputing.com/articles/ccfraud.htYou make a good point about Fry's re-shrink wrapping. I usually check and try to grab the item from the back of the stack.
However I've had great results returning items to the Frys in Houston (the one on N 45) They never questioned me. I say the ram is bad. no problem they don't even check. They give store credit or new ram (your choice) same with motherboards. I even returned one particular type of mother board twice it seemed to be a defective batch. I finally just took the store credit.
A common misconception about Darwin's "The Origin of Species". It's not about survival of the fittest. It's about survival of the fit enough.
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http://www.online-literature.com/darwin/originofs
The increased cost associated with killing someone is not due to the method of execution. It's the increased cost to house them in a separate more secure part of the prison, "Death row". Not to mention the automatic appeals process that is not afforded to a "normal" prisoner.
A link about death row costs in California: http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=cost&men u=1%22
Alex, What are the odds of successfully surviving a direct attack on a star destroyer?