The trick is that it's easier to prosecute employers. Currently an employer can claim the day laborer said he was legal. I'm unsure of the actual laws, but I think they can get away with several excuses. If you force every employer to validate the citizenship and work status of every worker, then you can prosecute the employer who can't show that he's done this.
I suspect the banks do have insurance that covers the loss during a robbery. I also suspect that the small to mid-size businesses don't have insurance that covers someone logging in and emptying their bank accounts, which can sink a small company.
And I agree, aside from the ease of counterfeits (how hard is it to fake a SS card). The real necessity is placing the responsibility on employers to check employees worker status. Currently, an employer has to "knowingly" employ an illegal immigrant to be prosecuted, and proving someone knew something is awfully difficult. They can usually claim the employee lied about his status.
This would require employers to validate worker status, and would be easier to prosecute. I don't understand why it would be particularly difficult for an employer to validate that the name on a SS card matches the number and that other pertinent demographics looked reasonable (age, sex, etc).
Tracking citizens of what, their work? We already do that....
This is nothing more then putting a "picture" on your social security card.
Which is exactly the problem. Read to one of the other posters on the same level as you. He describes "other" uses for this card, like stores and other government agencies tracking non-work related things. It's not entirely crazy that a national ID card will be used for far more than simply track work. Look at the social security card that you cite. It was never intended to be a national ID number, but it's become one, not just for the government, but for most businesses as well.
Ummm...actually, that's exactly what they want to do. They want to force employers to only hire people with "papers". The idea being that illegal immigrants can't get "papers" and will therefore be unable to work. It's actually a two phased plan. They require employees to have this ID card, they also require employers to check that employees have said ID card and are verified to work in the US. It's currently difficult to prove that an employer knowingly hired someone who isn't allowed to work in the US. This allows the government to prove that employers didn't check their employees worker status, which is far easier to prosecute.
The ultimate goal is that illegal immigrants won't be allowed to work here. The unfortunate side effect is that immigration is going to be even more of a nightmare for people who are legal to work in the US. And suddenly, many Americans are going to find themselves having to get lawyers and work out paperwork when their cards don't come up valid, or they lose them, etc.
I lived in a suburb of Detroit during the rolling blackout in the northeast. Drives that would normally take 10 minutes took hours, there were lines at the gas stations, people who didn't have cash on hand were scrambling to borrow money because they couldn't get money from the ATM, etc.
Blackouts in a local area is a completely different animal from widespread blackouts. Planes will not fly unless they keep those generators fueled so air traffic controllers can guide them. That will be very difficult when the fuel trucks are delivering their fuel to hospitals, and other essential infrastructure, all of which will be difficult to reach with no traffic signals, doubly difficult with most of the gas stations offline because they too don't have power. People can't pay for things because we all use credit cards for everything. These are all things that can be handled by areas outside the affected blackout zone in limited blackout situations (Think of the Northeast US blackout of a few years ago). When more than half the power grid goes offline, expect a certain amount of chaos. We are completely dependent on the computers and electrical infrastructure we all take for granted right now.
No, just like I don't get to return the heater core on my car if I happen to be in a state where I never need to use the heat. It's kind of a package deal. If you don't like the package, you have the option of telling Sony to take their whole package and stuff it.
Unfortunately, in this case, we need to cut pork not to cut taxes, but rather to get our debt load under control. Every American household is now responsible for almost a million dollars in government debt and as-yet-unfunded government programs. We're going to be in huge debt for a long time, and we're increasing it at a break-neck pace. Maybe it does move some money and stimulate the economy now, but it's killing our ability to remain viable in the future. Washington has been falling prey to the same short-sightedness they've accused big business of. Big business shoots for quarterly results. Washington is shooting for pork spending before the next election cycle. The end result is we're digging ourselves into a hole from which we may not emerge, at least not cleanly.
Yes. I'm pretty sure "shall not be infringed" is awfully clear. Just because you don't like the implications of the constitution doesn't mean it can be completely ignored. If we, as a country, disagree with the constitution, we have very clear and defined ways of changing it. I'm getting quite tired of seeing SCOTUS opinions that use consequences, or possible consequences as legal justification for blatantly ignoring the constitution. http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Scalia-terror-Guantanamo/2009/12/14/id/342437 It is not the court's job to determine what's best for the country. It's the court's job to determine law.
Insightful yes, it is a little muddier than this. Almost half of the debt is owed to other government accounts. They've been consistently borrowing from Social Security to pad their budgets. So, we have to worry about spooking the holders of the other ~$7 trillion. A big number, definitely, but everyone should be aware of the shell game going on in Washington. Go read this article on the Clinton surplus: http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
I believe that if you consume more entertainment than you can afford, then you need to learn to do without some entertainment. Just because you can't afford as much as you'd like to have, doesn't entitle you to still have it without paying it. We aren't a communist society, and we don't exort communist ideals. If you can't afford it, learn to live without it.
Unfortunately, most of the comments I see tend to be freeloaders hiding behind a banner of freedom so they can feel all warm and fuzzy inside when they blindly download dozens of games without paying for them.
Another alternative I've seen is a combination of laptop and paper. Typing notes where you can, and using paper when needed for equations and diagrams. Mention the diagram in the typed notes for reference. It can be scanned after class or simply filed.
My handwriting is not great, and I have found that one note is very good with handwriting recognition, and this has been with limited use, so no need to make a large time investment in adjusting your handwriting style to meet the needs of the handwriting software.
I'm hoping courts will agree with you. Sneaking terms into small print while implying something else in regular print should be illegal. Whether courts see it that way, however, is very much in question.
Except, if I remember it correctly, you did autorize it, it is just in very tiny print somewhere on the form you clicked. Smarmy yes, illegal, maybe not.
Plus, they get to keep the whole of that cost. They subsidize some development, hardware/bandwidth costs, and community development costs. But, as opposed to the, percentage of game cost, license fee they get from games, that whole fee goes directly into their coffers.
Not a dupe, just double embarrassment for Verizon. Femtocells are devices used to extend cellular coverage, usually in your home or office, generally via your own internet connection with a box you generally have to pay extra for. The MiFi device is a mini wireless access point that has a built in cellular access. It allows you to share your Verizon cellular internet service with friends or coworkers.
I can't imagine they fought with the EU as hard as they did with the intention of killing MySQL. Were that the case, I imagine they would have added a stipulation that they would spinoff or release the MySQL brand and ease the concerns of the EU regulators.
huh... he had enough warning to spend the time writing out no carrier, and wait for the preview and submit... May I ask where you got this battery? Mine's getting a little flakey.
I hate seeing this comment on every science article mentioned. It reflects a common attitude among people and corporations, and it is, in many ways, the wrong attitude. Yes, many ideas aren't scalable. But there is, and needs to be a lag time between discovering something and then figuring out how to manufacture and apply it. If we only concern ourselves with something we can bring to market tomorrow then a lot of items will never see the light of day. Some science needs time to develop, and it isn't any less impressive if they haven't already started building the factories to put these in [insert application here].
I may another "edge case" but I see a lot of benefit in using a device like this (even better the Notion Ink Adam mentioned elsewhere) for reading and annotating PDFs. Holding a tablet feels more natural to me for reading, and the ability to annotate and scribble notes, or quickly switch to another screen and look up something while comfortably sitting on the couch appeals to me.
It's an enormous amount of time spent doing something that seems almost silly now: making things like liquid helium. If you notice we had abundant amounts of it, and use them specifically in medical imaging.
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The trick is that it's easier to prosecute employers. Currently an employer can claim the day laborer said he was legal. I'm unsure of the actual laws, but I think they can get away with several excuses. If you force every employer to validate the citizenship and work status of every worker, then you can prosecute the employer who can't show that he's done this.
I suspect the banks do have insurance that covers the loss during a robbery. I also suspect that the small to mid-size businesses don't have insurance that covers someone logging in and emptying their bank accounts, which can sink a small company.
And I agree, aside from the ease of counterfeits (how hard is it to fake a SS card). The real necessity is placing the responsibility on employers to check employees worker status. Currently, an employer has to "knowingly" employ an illegal immigrant to be prosecuted, and proving someone knew something is awfully difficult. They can usually claim the employee lied about his status.
This would require employers to validate worker status, and would be easier to prosecute. I don't understand why it would be particularly difficult for an employer to validate that the name on a SS card matches the number and that other pertinent demographics looked reasonable (age, sex, etc).
Tracking citizens of what, their work? We already do that. ...
This is nothing more then putting a "picture" on your social security card.
Which is exactly the problem. Read to one of the other posters on the same level as you. He describes "other" uses for this card, like stores and other government agencies tracking non-work related things. It's not entirely crazy that a national ID card will be used for far more than simply track work. Look at the social security card that you cite. It was never intended to be a national ID number, but it's become one, not just for the government, but for most businesses as well.
Ummm...actually, that's exactly what they want to do. They want to force employers to only hire people with "papers". The idea being that illegal immigrants can't get "papers" and will therefore be unable to work. It's actually a two phased plan. They require employees to have this ID card, they also require employers to check that employees have said ID card and are verified to work in the US. It's currently difficult to prove that an employer knowingly hired someone who isn't allowed to work in the US. This allows the government to prove that employers didn't check their employees worker status, which is far easier to prosecute.
The ultimate goal is that illegal immigrants won't be allowed to work here. The unfortunate side effect is that immigration is going to be even more of a nightmare for people who are legal to work in the US. And suddenly, many Americans are going to find themselves having to get lawyers and work out paperwork when their cards don't come up valid, or they lose them, etc.
I lived in a suburb of Detroit during the rolling blackout in the northeast. Drives that would normally take 10 minutes took hours, there were lines at the gas stations, people who didn't have cash on hand were scrambling to borrow money because they couldn't get money from the ATM, etc.
Blackouts in a local area is a completely different animal from widespread blackouts. Planes will not fly unless they keep those generators fueled so air traffic controllers can guide them. That will be very difficult when the fuel trucks are delivering their fuel to hospitals, and other essential infrastructure, all of which will be difficult to reach with no traffic signals, doubly difficult with most of the gas stations offline because they too don't have power. People can't pay for things because we all use credit cards for everything. These are all things that can be handled by areas outside the affected blackout zone in limited blackout situations (Think of the Northeast US blackout of a few years ago). When more than half the power grid goes offline, expect a certain amount of chaos. We are completely dependent on the computers and electrical infrastructure we all take for granted right now.
No, just like I don't get to return the heater core on my car if I happen to be in a state where I never need to use the heat. It's kind of a package deal. If you don't like the package, you have the option of telling Sony to take their whole package and stuff it.
Newspapers are great to have because they offer better-researched, more compressive, and less biased news and commentary than random blogs.
You haven't read the NY Times lately, have you?
Unfortunately, in this case, we need to cut pork not to cut taxes, but rather to get our debt load under control. Every American household is now responsible for almost a million dollars in government debt and as-yet-unfunded government programs. We're going to be in huge debt for a long time, and we're increasing it at a break-neck pace. Maybe it does move some money and stimulate the economy now, but it's killing our ability to remain viable in the future. Washington has been falling prey to the same short-sightedness they've accused big business of. Big business shoots for quarterly results. Washington is shooting for pork spending before the next election cycle. The end result is we're digging ourselves into a hole from which we may not emerge, at least not cleanly.
Yes. I'm pretty sure "shall not be infringed" is awfully clear. Just because you don't like the implications of the constitution doesn't mean it can be completely ignored. If we, as a country, disagree with the constitution, we have very clear and defined ways of changing it. I'm getting quite tired of seeing SCOTUS opinions that use consequences, or possible consequences as legal justification for blatantly ignoring the constitution. http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Scalia-terror-Guantanamo/2009/12/14/id/342437 It is not the court's job to determine what's best for the country. It's the court's job to determine law.
Insightful yes, it is a little muddier than this. Almost half of the debt is owed to other government accounts. They've been consistently borrowing from Social Security to pad their budgets. So, we have to worry about spooking the holders of the other ~$7 trillion. A big number, definitely, but everyone should be aware of the shell game going on in Washington. Go read this article on the Clinton surplus: http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
I believe that if you consume more entertainment than you can afford, then you need to learn to do without some entertainment. Just because you can't afford as much as you'd like to have, doesn't entitle you to still have it without paying it. We aren't a communist society, and we don't exort communist ideals. If you can't afford it, learn to live without it.
Unfortunately, most of the comments I see tend to be freeloaders hiding behind a banner of freedom so they can feel all warm and fuzzy inside when they blindly download dozens of games without paying for them.
Another alternative I've seen is a combination of laptop and paper. Typing notes where you can, and using paper when needed for equations and diagrams. Mention the diagram in the typed notes for reference. It can be scanned after class or simply filed.
My handwriting is not great, and I have found that one note is very good with handwriting recognition, and this has been with limited use, so no need to make a large time investment in adjusting your handwriting style to meet the needs of the handwriting software.
I'm hoping courts will agree with you. Sneaking terms into small print while implying something else in regular print should be illegal. Whether courts see it that way, however, is very much in question.
Except, if I remember it correctly, you did autorize it, it is just in very tiny print somewhere on the form you clicked. Smarmy yes, illegal, maybe not.
Plus, they get to keep the whole of that cost. They subsidize some development, hardware/bandwidth costs, and community development costs. But, as opposed to the, percentage of game cost, license fee they get from games, that whole fee goes directly into their coffers.
Not a dupe, just double embarrassment for Verizon. Femtocells are devices used to extend cellular coverage, usually in your home or office, generally via your own internet connection with a box you generally have to pay extra for. The MiFi device is a mini wireless access point that has a built in cellular access. It allows you to share your Verizon cellular internet service with friends or coworkers.
I can't imagine they fought with the EU as hard as they did with the intention of killing MySQL. Were that the case, I imagine they would have added a stipulation that they would spinoff or release the MySQL brand and ease the concerns of the EU regulators.
huh... he had enough warning to spend the time writing out no carrier, and wait for the preview and submit... May I ask where you got this battery? Mine's getting a little flakey.
I hate seeing this comment on every science article mentioned. It reflects a common attitude among people and corporations, and it is, in many ways, the wrong attitude. Yes, many ideas aren't scalable. But there is, and needs to be a lag time between discovering something and then figuring out how to manufacture and apply it. If we only concern ourselves with something we can bring to market tomorrow then a lot of items will never see the light of day. Some science needs time to develop, and it isn't any less impressive if they haven't already started building the factories to put these in [insert application here].
I may another "edge case" but I see a lot of benefit in using a device like this (even better the Notion Ink Adam mentioned elsewhere) for reading and annotating PDFs. Holding a tablet feels more natural to me for reading, and the ability to annotate and scribble notes, or quickly switch to another screen and look up something while comfortably sitting on the couch appeals to me.
A wonderful example was the race to create superfluids and acheive absolute zero. PBS had a great special on this. Transcripts here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3501_zero.html
It's an enormous amount of time spent doing something that seems almost silly now: making things like liquid helium. If you notice we had abundant amounts of it, and use them specifically in medical imaging.