I do not mind the ban. In fact I am all in favor of a ban in most public places. I do mind the fact that they lie about the reason.
And look at what the excuse to ban the lift is. Not because it is bullshit, but it can boost economic productivity
Yeah, it also empowers people (whatever that means) as they had to find something to say about the people as well.
And it isn't "probably no risk" it is "no risk" as in "not absolute zero, but extremely close to it to be irrelevant."
So keep the ban, but treat us as mature people, not as kids. Shoot those who can not handle that and call it the Darwin Law, for all I care, but stop selling me bullish.
You still think that you can vote against something that companies want? I love your child like innocent view of the world. This will not be about what people think or want, but what companies want. You are powerless as your vote will be either with the companies who are for it or with the companies who are against it. At no moment will you be able to vote for what is good for you.
There are different situations for almost each person. Some people are sick 2 or three days per month and always on a Monday and/or Friday. That is about 20 sick days per year or 10-15 long weekends.
Then there is the person who is seriously sick for 40 days in a row.
Guess who will be getting that promotion? If the reaction of the cow orkers to "He is sick" is "Uh-huh" and not "Oh my. What does he have?" then you know that this 15th time sickness is likely a hangover.
And even that you need a doctors note the first day does not deter them.
If you are a contractor, then indeed you will not get payed, but then that is the choice you made by becoming a contractor. You can't have a cake and east it too.
If you do not compare it to other things, numbers mean nothing. Please give numbers for other professions.
And the wages INCREASED almost 2USD. As the increase already included adjustment for inflation, this is an increase of almost 19%. So you keep using that word flat, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
I see some places where it could be useful and a nice addition to both the mouse and keyboard. Especially on a portable. I do not see it on a desktop, not because I would not want it, but because the screen is not at arms length.
If I try to touch my screen without changing my sitting position, i.r. no leaning forward, not moving my shoulder forward, I can't. So I would have to move forward and that is not convenient. Not much. About 2 centimeters, but still.
Arms length is often said to be the ideal distance. That might have been true in the past. Not so much for the larger screens we are using now. 1920x1200 24" are mostly placed at the end of the desk. The exceptions I know of are people who have very bad eyes.
I see how they placed them at our company of 500+ people and with nobody are those screens close enough.
The reasons are two fold. First you want to be able to see the whole screen with the least head movement possible. Second you want to be able to use your desk for whatever you like and you can not reach stuff that is behind your monitor.
I disagree. Any troll can post false "fact" after false "fact" fast enough to overwhelm anyone else's ability to check and disprove them. Therefore the responsibility should be on the person presenting the fact to provide a valid citation (if not up front, then at least when asked for it).
Free beer might be possible. However a direct line to the brewery is not something that is possible. Technically it will be, but even breweries themselves do not have them. They will use the kegs instead.
If it is for a house, the beer consumption should be high enough to even warrant the use of a keg. A long line also needs to be cleaned and this will make the loss too high. And yes, I have talked to brewers. Small and large.
I have also been to several places where people claimed that have a direct link to the brewery. All these stories where untrue.
So unless somebody shows a story that is verified by somebody unrelated, then I might believe it. Till then as soon as I see a story that talks about something like a direct link to the brewery, I assume the story to be false and all other information in that story to be false as well.
What I get from postings is that there is a difference between a unionized and non-unionized companies and also that you can not choose your union in the US.
I live in Belgium and if the company has 50 people or more, there must be elections to have a union rep. Where I work we have less. I am member of a union. I have no idea who is or isn't and neither does my boss or HR department, nor do they care.
I can choose which union I go to or not be in the union anymore. The same laws will apply. The same rules will apply. Irregardless if I am in a union or not.
Unless it's 2002 again and we're suddenly writing out "www." for everything?
There are many people who do that. Even companies and IT people. Where I work our website www.example.com is available to see through our firewall, but not the IDENTICAL example.com one. Many sites still forward example.com to www.example.com for some reason.
Many people when I spell out a website like here.example.com will start typing http://www./ not only in their browser, but on google.
People tell me that their email has no spaces and is all lowercase.
Nice how you react to the first part of the posting, but not the second part.
Stop blaming and start solving.
I have worked in places where both Jews and Muslims could sit together and talk. All the rest is politics and perhaps you don't know, politicians are liars.
From the article, it seems as if the TSA did the safe thing and called the bomb squad, which I guess is the right thing to do.
They have you nicely conditioned into thinking that a watch is something that it is OK to call in the bomb squad for.
Your defense might be that they used box cutters to destroy 3 planes, The fourth plane showed us that will not happen again.
And even if it were possible, that leaves the fact that they are unable to determine what is dangerous. So if this is a false positive, how many false negatives are there? Never heard of somebody who forgot something in his hand luggage and they said nothing? Happened to me. I forgot that my keys had a very small leatherman knife. So I put it in the bag with all the cables and chargers for my portables and phones. Lots of random metal in cables and such to trow off stoopid people. They told me to open the bag and took out the water I also had forgotten. Drank that and walked on with my knife still in the bag onto the plane. I have heard from others similar stories. Most of the times concerning lighters they have forgotten. False negatives do exist and as we see here. False positives also do exist. Proof they are unable to do their job.
And yes, in the eyes of the police (not of the law) everybody is guilty. Everybody is a treat.
What exactly would the problem be with anyone having these things in their car?
From the top of my head, the country he was in. In Germany there will almost always 2 police officers in a car. So one will be driving while the other will be doing the handling.
And further, this is a non-story. The person was speeding and got a ticket for that. The items where not-secured and THAT also was a ticket.
If it was not a printer that was unsecured, but a case of beer (which would be legal to have in the car in Germany) the same might have happened.
It feels as if the story was written by a patent-troll. Just because it said 'on a computer' does not mean it is anything new.
When I was working, my boss did not want me to surf during working hours. He looked at the PC if things were installed. So at home I downloaded the Internet on a floppy from QNX and used that.
Big advantages was that I just booted from the floppy, so no installation needed. That was with floppies. Now the boy could easily use a USB stick and run almost any Linux distro. He could even use SUSEstudio.com to make his own that is specialized in running torrents the moment it is booted.
What they can do is blame terrorists (It happened at an airport, so it must be terrorists) and then ask for a law that enables police to ask anybody to identify themselves and hand over your phone for inspection.
It also makes it possible for blind readers to get a cheaper reader that reads 'normal' books and turns them into speech with e.g.an OCR reader and festival.
Normally if a contract contains something that is not legal, the whole contract can become void. So even if they put this in, how can this be legal?
If they put in their contract that they will now be the legal guardians of your children, that would not make it so. At least I hope.
Saying:Yeah, but you signed, does not make illegal contracts legal. I doubt it is possible to take away that kind of rights by signing a contract. I am using signing and not even 'clicking on ok'
How many do you think you are going to lend out? To how many people? Be realistic. Making a card per person and write in the book they lend and when might be easier.
On a card you just write the name of the person. Then when lending out a book, write down the name of the book, the author and the date. Then when they bring it back, fill that out.
I would go for a per-person approach and not a per book approach as libraries do it, because you will most likely have less people then books.
Having it on paper and not electronically will make it easier to use for the next 50 to 100 years. No real reason to update. Instead of cards, a paper notebook would do the trick as well.
You can even use it for other members in the family to keep record who read what and when. Nice to look at in many years time.
I would not go with anything electronic. Just make sure that you know what kind of notebook you want, need and how many columns you need. An extra is that other people will be able to use it when you are no longer alive. That way they can get the books back (if they want to) without any knowledge of the way databases work at that time.
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I do not mind the ban. In fact I am all in favor of a ban in most public places. I do mind the fact that they lie about the reason.
And look at what the excuse to ban the lift is. Not because it is bullshit, but it can boost economic productivity
Yeah, it also empowers people (whatever that means) as they had to find something to say about the people as well.
And it isn't "probably no risk" it is "no risk" as in "not absolute zero, but extremely close to it to be irrelevant."
So keep the ban, but treat us as mature people, not as kids. Shoot those who can not handle that and call it the Darwin Law, for all I care, but stop selling me bullish.
Yeah, just like the TSA and some snake oil, I am willing to sell you.
You still think that you can vote against something that companies want? I love your child like innocent view of the world.
This will not be about what people think or want, but what companies want.
You are powerless as your vote will be either with the companies who are for it or with the companies who are against it. At no moment will you be able to vote for what is good for you.
Bullfrog. If he wanted it halted, he would have done so. He wanted the war on Android and was willing to risk it all.
There are different situations for almost each person. Some people are sick 2 or three days per month and always on a Monday and/or Friday.
That is about 20 sick days per year or 10-15 long weekends.
Then there is the person who is seriously sick for 40 days in a row.
Guess who will be getting that promotion? If the reaction of the cow orkers to "He is sick" is "Uh-huh" and not "Oh my. What does he have?" then you know that this 15th time sickness is likely a hangover.
And even that you need a doctors note the first day does not deter them.
If you are a contractor, then indeed you will not get payed, but then that is the choice you made by becoming a contractor. You can't have a cake and east it too.
That way they will not ever never need to show anything.
If you do not compare it to other things, numbers mean nothing.
Please give numbers for other professions.
And the wages INCREASED almost 2USD. As the increase already included adjustment for inflation, this is an increase of almost 19%.
So you keep using that word flat, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Again: adjusted for inflation.
I see some places where it could be useful and a nice addition to both the mouse and keyboard. Especially on a portable.
I do not see it on a desktop, not because I would not want it, but because the screen is not at arms length.
If I try to touch my screen without changing my sitting position, i.r. no leaning forward, not moving my shoulder forward, I can't. So I would have to move forward and that is not convenient. Not much. About 2 centimeters, but still.
Arms length is often said to be the ideal distance. That might have been true in the past. Not so much for the larger screens we are using now. 1920x1200 24" are mostly placed at the end of the desk. The exceptions I know of are people who have very bad eyes.
I see how they placed them at our company of 500+ people and with nobody are those screens close enough.
The reasons are two fold. First you want to be able to see the whole screen with the least head movement possible. Second you want to be able to use your desk for whatever you like and you can not reach stuff that is behind your monitor.
Citation needed.
Free beer might be possible. However a direct line to the brewery is not something that is possible. Technically it will be, but even breweries themselves do not have them. They will use the kegs instead.
If it is for a house, the beer consumption should be high enough to even warrant the use of a keg. A long line also needs to be cleaned and this will make the loss too high. And yes, I have talked to brewers. Small and large.
I have also been to several places where people claimed that have a direct link to the brewery. All these stories where untrue.
So unless somebody shows a story that is verified by somebody unrelated, then I might believe it. Till then as soon as I see a story that talks about something like a direct link to the brewery, I assume the story to be false and all other information in that story to be false as well.
What I get from postings is that there is a difference between a unionized and non-unionized companies and also that you can not choose your union in the US.
I live in Belgium and if the company has 50 people or more, there must be elections to have a union rep. Where I work we have less. I am member of a union. I have no idea who is or isn't and neither does my boss or HR department, nor do they care.
I can choose which union I go to or not be in the union anymore. The same laws will apply. The same rules will apply. Irregardless if I am in a union or not.
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There are many people who do that. Even companies and IT people. Where I work our website www.example.com is available to see through our firewall, but not the IDENTICAL example.com one. Many sites still forward example.com to www.example.com for some reason.
Many people when I spell out a website like here.example.com will start typing http://www./ not only in their browser, but on google.
People tell me that their email has no spaces and is all lowercase.
Nice how you react to the first part of the posting, but not the second part.
Stop blaming and start solving.
I have worked in places where both Jews and Muslims could sit together and talk. All the rest is politics and perhaps you don't know, politicians are liars.
I am a Siamese twin, you insensitive clod.
Another is http://bandcamp.com/
They have you nicely conditioned into thinking that a watch is something that it is OK to call in the bomb squad for.
Your defense might be that they used box cutters to destroy 3 planes, The fourth plane showed us that will not happen again.
And even if it were possible, that leaves the fact that they are unable to determine what is dangerous. So if this is a false positive, how many false negatives are there? Never heard of somebody who forgot something in his hand luggage and they said nothing? Happened to me. I forgot that my keys had a very small leatherman knife. So I put it in the bag with all the cables and chargers for my portables and phones. Lots of random metal in cables and such to trow off stoopid people.
They told me to open the bag and took out the water I also had forgotten. Drank that and walked on with my knife still in the bag onto the plane.
I have heard from others similar stories. Most of the times concerning lighters they have forgotten.
False negatives do exist and as we see here. False positives also do exist.
Proof they are unable to do their job.
And yes, in the eyes of the police (not of the law) everybody is guilty. Everybody is a treat.
The government is lying to you. I do not even have to ask what country you are from, because that is irrelevant.
This is because humans lie. You lie to others about how their baby looks. Darn, you lie to yourself how YOUR baby looks.
When I was working, my boss did not want me to surf during working hours. He looked at the PC if things were installed. So at home I downloaded the Internet on a floppy from QNX and used that.
Big advantages was that I just booted from the floppy, so no installation needed. That was with floppies. Now the boy could easily use a USB stick and run almost any Linux distro. He could even use SUSEstudio.com to make his own that is specialized in running torrents the moment it is booted.
What they can do is blame terrorists (It happened at an airport, so it must be terrorists) and then ask for a law that enables police to ask anybody to identify themselves and hand over your phone for inspection.
Because in the end nobody cares enough to remove them.
It also makes it possible for blind readers to get a cheaper reader that reads 'normal' books and turns them into speech with e.g.an OCR reader and festival.
Normally if a contract contains something that is not legal, the whole contract can become void. So even if they put this in, how can this be legal?
If they put in their contract that they will now be the legal guardians of your children, that would not make it so. At least I hope.
Saying:Yeah, but you signed, does not make illegal contracts legal. I doubt it is possible to take away that kind of rights by signing a contract. I am using signing and not even 'clicking on ok'
How many do you think you are going to lend out? To how many people? Be realistic. Making a card per person and write in the book they lend and when might be easier.
On a card you just write the name of the person. Then when lending out a book, write down the name of the book, the author and the date. Then when they bring it back, fill that out.
I would go for a per-person approach and not a per book approach as libraries do it, because you will most likely have less people then books.
Having it on paper and not electronically will make it easier to use for the next 50 to 100 years. No real reason to update. Instead of cards, a paper notebook would do the trick as well.
You can even use it for other members in the family to keep record who read what and when. Nice to look at in many years time.
I would not go with anything electronic. Just make sure that you know what kind of notebook you want, need and how many columns you need. An extra is that other people will be able to use it when you are no longer alive. That way they can get the books back (if they want to) without any knowledge of the way databases work at that time.