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  1. Re:For those who still want diesel on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Big bright HPS street lights are 400W. LED ones are about 100W.

    I doubt the wiring is significantly overbuilt. LED retrofits would give you 300W (not a lot) per lamp for charging, then you'd have to work out metering.

  2. Re:I could have had a V8 on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Traction contest. How wide are your tires? Has anybody tubbed a tesla yet?

  3. Re: For those who still want diesel on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    They still suck compared to large generators. Wires are old tech.

  4. Feds don't have the budget and states are refusing to pay a penny.

    When the feds try to make an example, they can't find juries to convict.

    Give it up. It's over. Simple demographics.

    The really amazing thing is watching the Korean war generation when it is legalized. Many take to it like ducks to water. Starts out a little toke for the pain, next thing you know, they've replaced a few of the tomatoes and have weed in their pancakes. Really good weed.

  5. Re:Very interesting... on Microsoft is Working On Software For The Legal Marijuana Industry (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The USA still has a lot of privately held small local banks. Often still owned by a single extended family. I did a year at one. (Moron married to a niece sank it. Couldn't keep a loan origination pipeline hedged, his only job, quarter mil/year in early 90s. No fun at work, great ratio...I digress.)

    Anybody with about 20 million and a non-felon to put up as president can own a bank. There is paperwork of course, don't try to own a bank if you don't like paperwork.

    Paypal is not a bank by US law, is one by EU law. They are a special case where they don't want to be a bank.

  6. Re:There are limits to GPS on Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into (popsci.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    GPS returns altitude.

  7. Re:ways around this on Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into (popsci.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Install cyanogen. Configure it to give bogus information to apps that want location information for no good reason (all but navi).

    Optional: Have that location be some ridiculously overpriced shopping district. Rodeo drive, Monaco, Manhattan etc. Just to fuck with the companies trying to monetize the information.

  8. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    At some point they likely noticed. I have poached clients a time or three. (Having learned from my former employers behavior, at least one of who started their business the same way.) Then again, the client isn't going out of their way to tell them I'm working for them either, but I haven't been hiding.

    I guess nobody saw the point of wasting money on lawyers and they sucked it up. I'm not sure. No lawsuits. Guess the non-signature put enough uncertainty in play, 'cause they had the lawyer on speed dial. Not having staff shysters had to change the calculus.

    The non-clause's that I've _really_ violated are the 'non-disparagement' ones. Always truth. Mostly of the form; 'I can actually explain those crazy results...' Helps to know where the skeletons are buried and who has what issue. I don't actually 'bad mouth' them.

  9. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    30 years on. No problems yet.

  10. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Every state has a labor board. They mostly deal with unemployment disputes and pay issues.

  11. Re:water? on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Crashes Into Droneship (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Try parking your car up to the hubs in salt water. See how that works.

  12. Re:Someone is playing Kerbal Space Program on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Crashes Into Droneship (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Spontaneous Thermal Self Disassembly (STSD) has been used by racers to describe blowing up a motor sense before the 80s (when I first heard it).

  13. Re:Apple's one to talk. on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Tons of garbage. Tons. I was happily not aware that Garth Brooks had _6_ greatest hits CDs. They aren't blank.

    But I kept it all. Never know when I'll trade with someone who likes the Beatles.

    He was OCD about it, no doubt. 1000 is low. 1000 might cover the good Jazz.

  14. Re:Apple's one to talk. on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Takes a day to copy. More to sort the CD folders for dups.

  15. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting == expensive and uncertain.

    How much would the severance have to be before the suit would be a good bet? All this assumes HR suddenly gains competence and notices you didn't actually sign.

    It would likely not work for a lawyer. How should I know that writing clearly 'I don't agree' is not sufficient.

  16. No. She must classify based on content. Same as anybody else.

    Anybody in state can start a formal process to declassify, but nobody can do it with the stroke of a pen.

    This truly is 'the Nixon defense'.

  17. SS does not have the authority to declassify documents. She can start a formal process to do so, but it is not in her authority to do it.

    She must by law classify things based on their content, not on her whim.

    For example: She emailed out full resolution spy satellite photos. Those are always classified, even if they don't directly contain any information beyond the capability of the satellite. Open and shut. She's guilty.

  18. Re:Sources of Support on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need to bomb Iran.

    The Sunnis will do it for us. We just need to maintain the stalemate.

  19. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Also note: I say professional HR. But even small companies have 'professional HR'. What I mean is avoid larger companies where HR has any decision making role in hiring.

    HR should be benefits admins at most, it's all they are competent for.

  20. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck off AC. There is a toilet that needs plunging on the first floor. Get to it.

  21. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Proven a fantasy?

    You apparently live in a fantasy world with competent HR. As I said I've done this many times and never had a problem.

  22. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They can claim the payment was done in error. But I've got my copy of the close paperwork that shows it's my termination payment.

    Good luck to the employer at the labor board.

  23. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I've done this on every exit interview and non-disclosure/non-compete I've signed in 30 years of work. That is, the ones they actually made me sign. First pass was always to 'forget' to sign any updated paperwork, 3/4 of the time they never followed up. Typical HR IS that incompetent.

    Nobody ever noticed. Not even the 3rd party non-disclosures when working in consulting.

    If I caused an HR drone some heartburn, good. I've had to work with the results of their incompetence, so it balances.

  24. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone is equally important?

    So they all get the same pay? No. Well you're just wrong. How hard are you to replace? If it's easy, you are not important to the company.

    Don't sign 'I don't agree' if this is your only option. HR drones, don't do it.

  25. Re:Sign 'I don't agree' on all HR paperwork on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Clear text. The person who didn't read it is at fault.