I have made and saved *a lot* of money for the trouble of saving paper records: being organized has quite simply made me money.
I've been able to get timely warranty replacement service. I have been able to increase my tax returns by submitting amended tax forms years later. I've taken advantage of offers that actually do save me money, and can easily comparison shop when I get sick of any given company's bullshit. I've been able to track my spending and activity, and modify it to be more efficient. I have actually bothered to mail in rebates. Most recently I was able to document the dozens of automated, after-hours phone calls (in violation of federal regulations) I received from SallieMae over the years. Having the paperwork handy meant that I was able to claim several hundred dollars from the multi-million class settlement, rather than the default $25 amount.
I keep two manilla folders handy: one for current tax documents (not including receipts), and the other for most current statements for all other accounts. I archive everything in the current accounts folder when it gets too full -- once or twice a year, tops. Accounts statements are stacked together, with the most recent statement placed on top. When they're archived, they go into file folders for each account; these are expanded as necessary. All federal tax information is sorted by year filed. I've moved a few times, so all state tax information is sorted by state and year. All residential leases and related housing documentation (notices, bills, etc) are filed by residence.
I also *always* get receipts. I stack these in my wallet the same way I do the mail records: the most recent receipt goes on top. Whenever I have a receipt transaction, I have my wallet out anyway. When this gets too bulky (about every two months) I place the receipts in an accordion file folder. It's easy to separate them by month, since they're already in chronological order. Hardware documentation is tricky; these things are variously-sized and simply screw up manilla folders. I keep manuals and warranties in one single plastic accordion file folder. Driver disks go into a large CD wallet. I once noted that a large video store (Le Video in San Francisco's Sunset District, a block down from the Craigslist offices) kept its entire DVD collection in a series of ~7 CD wallets, so I think this will be enough space for me.
This system is chronological, sorted by account, and takes very little time and space. No external metadata or additional processing is required, though I have at times sent entire accounts through scanners with document feeders, ran OCR on them, and uploaded the entire file to a google docs account. I bother to open my mail once a month at most; more frequently I do so quarterly. It takes me a few minutes at the outside to move items from the current folder to the archives. I have a decade's worth of bank statements, student loan statements, phone, utility, tax, 3 degrees' worth of academic records from 4 separate institutions, membership organizations, and receipts for almost every purchase I have ever made. (I do discard warranties and manuals at the same time I discard the hardware.)
This comprehensive chronological paper record takes up a mere two file boxes, and the accordion files with the receipts takes up another 1'x2' box. At this rate, if I keep every record and live until I'm 80, it will take up one entire four-shelf file cabinet. It has made me painfully aware of the vast extent to which my life is being tracked and documented, but it has helped me adjust to take the greatest personal advantage of the current state of affairs as possible.
Since when are QWERTY keyboards a terrible idea in the living room?
I picked up a Logitech diNovo Edge wireless keyboard a few years ago, and I very much prefer it to any remote control I've come across. Its volume slider alone is a more sophisticated, responsive, and precise approach to the three-button, louder/quieter/mute approach every remote has. Same with the horizontal and vertical scrolling touchpad. Searching for specific media? Keying in precisely what you're searching for will almost always be faster than browsing.
When it comes to remotes, there is no standardized button layout. Great, so I have to memorize new positions for each and every new device, even though the functions are the same! Even better, frequently remotes will have prominently-placed buttons that simply do not do anything, since you don't have the corresponding device, service, or configuration. Even the button layout is awkward: you can probably change the channel and adjust the volume without looking, but many other functions will require you to look at the device. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that remote control design is intentionally inefficient, as it would increase the time spent browsing.
I can imagine voice command being more efficient for some functions, but I cannot imagine a Kinect being a quicker and/or more convenient way to access so much functionality, unless the precision increases by an order of magnitude or two -- precise enough to use finger-entry on a virtual, QWERTY keyboard, basically.
There's no agency in government that should be accorded the singular privilege of not having to be second-guessed by a jury.
True enough, but despite the article's paraphrasing that's not what the brief from the Solicitor General actually says. The brief says that juries can screw up, and that lowering the standard needed to get claims like this to a jury will create disincentives to both inventing and patenting inventions.
"The clear-and-convincing-evidence standard also furthers the reliance interests created by a patent grant by affording the patent holder enhanced protection against an erroneous jury finding of invalidity. By allowing a lay jury to second-guess the PTO's judgment even in close cases, the preponderance standard would diminish the expected value of patents and would reduce future inventors' incentives to innovate and to disclose their inventions to the public."
Use an open source integrated library system like koha http://koha.org/. These are designed precisely for organizing multiple types of media. While they generally are used at a larger scale, they easily scale down to smaller personal libraries like yours.
Since it's a personal, local library, you will only need to use a few of the available modules -- no need for circulation, acquisitions, etc. While some of your media does have the option for auto-retrieval in more limited media systems like iTunes, for the level of organization, access, and retrieval you want, you will need some manual review.
I think the death penalty is wrong, and should end. But your reasoning on this point bothers me. Show me to the person who has been executed in the US who did not him/herself execute at least one other person.
If the result of the government collecting data on you is imprisonment or death, and you've been killing people, fuck you.
The scrolling effect is a novel improvement, but the limits with the "note highway" are the same as they are for tab notation: it's a low level representation. It adds in an extra level of translation from cue to sound that will slow a person down. Sure, people who only master all levels of this kind of guitar training might be able to shred on tunes they've already learned, but they will be stuck trying to play along to something they've only just heard, or playing along with others live.
Positional notations train the brain to think of playing instruments in terms of "finger goes here, here, then here." That's can be good enough for starting out, but skilled musicians practice to the point that specific instrumental positions are mapped to tones. Once you reach this point, any tone you can hear or sing you can play. Reading music becomes a matter of seeing a shape and thinking of a noise, not a fingering.
Tablature has existed for a long time because sometimes it is a useful shortcut, but classical music notation is far more robust because it is a method for representing tones, not fingerings. Having to thinking about where to put your fingers to make the sounds you want will slow a person down. It's like the difference between translating your thoughts into a different language, and thinking in that language.
Musicians who are fluent readers are able to see notes and hear them in their head. When you see notes you hear the sound, like when you see words you hear them in your head. Tab and note highways are more like seeing words and knowing where to press on your keyboard to reproduce them, letter by letter.
Color me unimpressed. Correctional officers make their living guarding over people who live in cages. They are charged with depriving dozens of people of their liberty and privacy. Accounts of correctional officers abusing their privileges for personal profit --or just gratification-- are commonplace. It's human nature for correctional officers to fall prey to their power; as a result these people need to have a very serious level of power-checks and reviews in place.
"We must secure liberty and privacy above anything else!" Except well, you know... for prisoners. I have little sympathy for securing the facebook login info for someone who spends his days watching over caged people who are forced to shit and piss in front of their cell mates.
will be proving that he typed the comments.
Though as dumb as he sounds, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he has already readily and unwittingly confessed to doing so.
Sounds to me like the law is only treating symptoms. How about a law that makes it illegal to sell customer info without their express written consent?
Yep. To quote the article: "When people frantically begin shredding sensitive documents and deleting computer files and smashing flash drives and chasing garbage trucks at 2 a.m.... it is not because they have been operating legitimately," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Ahhh the old "if you are innocent, then you shouldn't have a right to privacy" argument. Obviously I disagree. I'd destroy my hard drive too if I got word the government was coming. They don't need to know that I donated to wikileaks and other projects.
The difference here is that people engaged in finance --because they are dealing with other peoples' money-- are held to a different set of rules. One of those rules --and it's a big and very well-known one in finance-- is that if you can reasonably anticipate litigation, you are under a legal obligation to preserve any documents or data that might be relevant to that litigation.
If you do destroy relevant data, depending on whether your actions ranged from accidentally going along with normal office policy to ridiculously obviously willful destruction of evidence, the penalties can range from an optional slap on the wrist to an assumption that whatever you destroyed was incriminating.
That is an excellent idea. However the California Correctional Peace Officer's Association is one of, if not the, most powerful political entities in the state., and it is in the interest of the CCPOA to increase prisoners.
Policies to this effect are generally an easy political sell for the CCPOA, since "tough on crime" tends to be a sound bite with purchase. At least it seems so far to have been a more effective one than "should that nonviolent action really be illegal?"
Technically yes, but not logically. If you think that politicians and lawyers aren't terrorists because they aren't *logical* enough as a class, your own logic is wanting. They are generally more skilled than engineers at directing the actions of others. If your goal is to terrorize, it's logical to delegate the risk to others.
Since not committing terrorist acts is much more logical than committing them, it's not as if neither the terrorist engineer nor the terrorist-inspiring politician/lawyer is logical in an absolute sense. But relatively speaking, the terrorist politician/lawyer's path --delegating the risk of exposure/imprisonment/death-- is more logical than shouldering the risk on one's own.
Watching that many is certainly possible, but recalling them all seems unlikely.
World record holder Gwilym Hughes got it by watching ~14 films a week from 1953 to 2008. He said: "People think that I'm glued to the television set 24 hours a day but I'm not because I'm a member of about 10 organisations. I watch films from about 9pm until about 12. Sometimes I could set up one on the televisions in the study. It works out about 10 to 14 films a week."
His favorite movies is also one of my favorites -- Lawrence of Arabia.
The prostitution ads have already started to move to "Therapeutic Services" under the guise of massage and bodywork. Adult Services was like a CL trash folder; it kept the other sections relatively free of prostitution ads.
CL had implemented a verification scheme and extra hoop-jumping for ads in Adult Services after the earlier lawsuits. CL has always been willing to comply with law enforcement requests supported by warrants. If the point was fighting prostitution, what the fuck more could CL have done? They gave police departments an up-to-the-minute list of suspect numbers, addresses, and business fronts to investigate. CL's verification efforts gave them even more info on the posters of such ads.
And the uninformed & grandstanding efforts of the 17 AGs who signed onto the August letter to CL have just trashed this. Prostitution ads are *already* be back to where they were when Adult Services was named Erotic Services. What a complete waste of time and money this game of whack-a-mole has been. Regardless of what you think of prostitution, these AGs have demonstrated that they are not able or willing to bother to spend the time to understand how to achieve their purported goals. An election is coming up.
Vote these incompetent AGs out. Their names are:
Kansas: Steve Six Connecticut: Steven Blumenthal Massachusetts: Martha Coakley Arkansas: Dustin MacDaniel Idaho: Lawrence Wadson Illinois: Lisa Madigan Iowa: Tom Miller Maryland: Douglas F. Gansler Michigan: Mike Cox Missouri: Chris Koster Montana: Steve Bullock New Hampshire: Michael A. Delaney Ohio: Richard Cordray Rhode Island: Patrick C. Lynch South Carolina: Henry McMaster Tennessee: Robert E. Cooper, Jr. Texas: Greg Abbott Virginia: Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II
Deaths by airplane crash aren't newsworthy because they are so rare; it is because plummeting out of the sky seems so fascinatingly terrifying. It's similar to society's fascination with serial killers: rare, but scary.
Saying please before hand means that the work being done is done for the doctors benefit at the expense of someone elses time. Vs. Just shooting out orders that says you are here for me and just me.... there is a cost savings by making the Dr. think twice, as well it can help keep the load down for the labs for a while.
Granted I have never worked w/ MDs, so I can only take your post at face value. But from my perspective this policy seems to prioritize the emotional comfort of hospital staff above the quality of medical care.
I can understand your point where the tasks are degrading, arbitrary, or unnecessary. But sometimes a seemingly unnecessary blood test will yield information that makes for a faster, more accurate, or more efficient diagnosis and treatment, right?
If you sync Chrome to a gmail account on each device you can already get the behavior you describe. In preferences, select "On startup: Reopen the pages that were open last."
It's quite handy if you consistently move among devices.
Learn the names of the people you see every day. Say hello to them the first time you see them each day, and say goodbye as you leave.
It's a very basic bit of social etiquette, but often neglected at work. The simple act of verbally acknowledging the presence of others can have a dramatic improvement on your work environment on several levels.
It's the difference in the elastic modulus among materials. The envelopes, manual, and cardboard packaging have different properties from the encased plastic discs. Opposing shear forces with small enough clearance could easily snap a CD/DVD in the middle, without leaving any particularly unusual bend or mark on the external plant-pulp packaging. If the tire and road surfaces were flat and clean enough, a loaded semi could drive over a piece of mail without harming it; not so for the disc.
There are certainly privacy concerns, but discussion of these tends to dismiss possible benefits of this sort of thing. I believe an appropriate balance here would be a system that accepted RFID hit as indicative of someone's presence, but did not count a lack of an RFID hit as proof of absence. That way people who object to the system could leave their IDs, wrap them in foil, or otherwise not use or disable the function.
That's not how fiduciary duty works, for several reasons. Short egregious violations and an accompanying CYA failure, neither the executives nor the board members will personally liable for damages; that's one of the main points of incorporating in the first place. The SHs might be able to leverage this problem into a voting in new board members --who will then be able to affect the employment of company executives-- but I seriously doubt that will happen.
Liability is going to hit BP. The executives, board, and shareholders will be affected only to this extent that this reduces the value of their shares.
1. Where does such a "do formulas like OpenOffice.org" element appear? 2. Are "formulas like OpenOffice.org" open to the public? The whole closed-source thing seemed to be the problem with "do stuff like Word 95". You can see how OpenOffice.org does formulas, but you can't see how Word 95 does them.
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I have made and saved *a lot* of money for the trouble of saving paper records: being organized has quite simply made me money.
I've been able to get timely warranty replacement service. I have been able to increase my tax returns by submitting amended tax forms years later. I've taken advantage of offers that actually do save me money, and can easily comparison shop when I get sick of any given company's bullshit. I've been able to track my spending and activity, and modify it to be more efficient. I have actually bothered to mail in rebates. Most recently I was able to document the dozens of automated, after-hours phone calls (in violation of federal regulations) I received from SallieMae over the years. Having the paperwork handy meant that I was able to claim several hundred dollars from the multi-million class settlement, rather than the default $25 amount.
I keep two manilla folders handy: one for current tax documents (not including receipts), and the other for most current statements for all other accounts. I archive everything in the current accounts folder when it gets too full -- once or twice a year, tops. Accounts statements are stacked together, with the most recent statement placed on top. When they're archived, they go into file folders for each account; these are expanded as necessary. All federal tax information is sorted by year filed. I've moved a few times, so all state tax information is sorted by state and year. All residential leases and related housing documentation (notices, bills, etc) are filed by residence.
I also *always* get receipts. I stack these in my wallet the same way I do the mail records: the most recent receipt goes on top. Whenever I have a receipt transaction, I have my wallet out anyway. When this gets too bulky (about every two months) I place the receipts in an accordion file folder. It's easy to separate them by month, since they're already in chronological order. Hardware documentation is tricky; these things are variously-sized and simply screw up manilla folders. I keep manuals and warranties in one single plastic accordion file folder. Driver disks go into a large CD wallet. I once noted that a large video store (Le Video in San Francisco's Sunset District, a block down from the Craigslist offices) kept its entire DVD collection in a series of ~7 CD wallets, so I think this will be enough space for me.
This system is chronological, sorted by account, and takes very little time and space. No external metadata or additional processing is required, though I have at times sent entire accounts through scanners with document feeders, ran OCR on them, and uploaded the entire file to a google docs account. I bother to open my mail once a month at most; more frequently I do so quarterly. It takes me a few minutes at the outside to move items from the current folder to the archives. I have a decade's worth of bank statements, student loan statements, phone, utility, tax, 3 degrees' worth of academic records from 4 separate institutions, membership organizations, and receipts for almost every purchase I have ever made. (I do discard warranties and manuals at the same time I discard the hardware.)
This comprehensive chronological paper record takes up a mere two file boxes, and the accordion files with the receipts takes up another 1'x2' box. At this rate, if I keep every record and live until I'm 80, it will take up one entire four-shelf file cabinet. It has made me painfully aware of the vast extent to which my life is being tracked and documented, but it has helped me adjust to take the greatest personal advantage of the current state of affairs as possible.
Since when are QWERTY keyboards a terrible idea in the living room?
I picked up a Logitech diNovo Edge wireless keyboard a few years ago, and I very much prefer it to any remote control I've come across. Its volume slider alone is a more sophisticated, responsive, and precise approach to the three-button, louder/quieter/mute approach every remote has. Same with the horizontal and vertical scrolling touchpad. Searching for specific media? Keying in precisely what you're searching for will almost always be faster than browsing.
When it comes to remotes, there is no standardized button layout. Great, so I have to memorize new positions for each and every new device, even though the functions are the same! Even better, frequently remotes will have prominently-placed buttons that simply do not do anything, since you don't have the corresponding device, service, or configuration. Even the button layout is awkward: you can probably change the channel and adjust the volume without looking, but many other functions will require you to look at the device. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that remote control design is intentionally inefficient, as it would increase the time spent browsing.
I can imagine voice command being more efficient for some functions, but I cannot imagine a Kinect being a quicker and/or more convenient way to access so much functionality, unless the precision increases by an order of magnitude or two -- precise enough to use finger-entry on a virtual, QWERTY keyboard, basically.
the wheel tends to gum up after 18 months
You may find keeping wet wipes on your desk and wiping your fingers off after every 10th Cheeto or so clears that problem up.
there's a much better approach to Cheeto eating: http://wondermark.com/601/
There's no agency in government that should be accorded the singular privilege of not having to be second-guessed by a jury.
True enough, but despite the article's paraphrasing that's not what the brief from the Solicitor General actually says. The brief says that juries can screw up, and that lowering the standard needed to get claims like this to a jury will create disincentives to both inventing and patenting inventions.
"The clear-and-convincing-evidence standard also furthers the reliance interests created by a patent grant by affording the patent holder enhanced protection against an erroneous jury finding of invalidity. By allowing a lay jury to second-guess the PTO's judgment even in close cases, the preponderance standard would diminish the expected value of patents and would reduce future inventors' incentives to innovate and to disclose their inventions to the public."
Use an open source integrated library system like koha http://koha.org/. These are designed precisely for organizing multiple types of media. While they generally are used at a larger scale, they easily scale down to smaller personal libraries like yours.
Since it's a personal, local library, you will only need to use a few of the available modules -- no need for circulation, acquisitions, etc. While some of your media does have the option for auto-retrieval in more limited media systems like iTunes, for the level of organization, access, and retrieval you want, you will need some manual review.
I think the death penalty is wrong, and should end. But your reasoning on this point bothers me. Show me to the person who has been executed in the US who did not him/herself execute at least one other person. If the result of the government collecting data on you is imprisonment or death, and you've been killing people, fuck you.
The scrolling effect is a novel improvement, but the limits with the "note highway" are the same as they are for tab notation: it's a low level representation. It adds in an extra level of translation from cue to sound that will slow a person down. Sure, people who only master all levels of this kind of guitar training might be able to shred on tunes they've already learned, but they will be stuck trying to play along to something they've only just heard, or playing along with others live.
Positional notations train the brain to think of playing instruments in terms of "finger goes here, here, then here." That's can be good enough for starting out, but skilled musicians practice to the point that specific instrumental positions are mapped to tones. Once you reach this point, any tone you can hear or sing you can play. Reading music becomes a matter of seeing a shape and thinking of a noise, not a fingering.
Tablature has existed for a long time because sometimes it is a useful shortcut, but classical music notation is far more robust because it is a method for representing tones, not fingerings. Having to thinking about where to put your fingers to make the sounds you want will slow a person down. It's like the difference between translating your thoughts into a different language, and thinking in that language.
Musicians who are fluent readers are able to see notes and hear them in their head. When you see notes you hear the sound, like when you see words you hear them in your head. Tab and note highways are more like seeing words and knowing where to press on your keyboard to reproduce them, letter by letter.
Color me unimpressed. Correctional officers make their living guarding over people who live in cages. They are charged with depriving dozens of people of their liberty and privacy. Accounts of correctional officers abusing their privileges for personal profit --or just gratification-- are commonplace. It's human nature for correctional officers to fall prey to their power; as a result these people need to have a very serious level of power-checks and reviews in place.
"We must secure liberty and privacy above anything else!" Except well, you know... for prisoners. I have little sympathy for securing the facebook login info for someone who spends his days watching over caged people who are forced to shit and piss in front of their cell mates.
will be proving that he typed the comments. Though as dumb as he sounds, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he has already readily and unwittingly confessed to doing so.
Sounds to me like the law is only treating symptoms. How about a law that makes it illegal to sell customer info without their express written consent?
The FTC is actually asking for public comments on something along those lines. Submit comments by Feb. 18. (It would help if your comments address the specific questions they ask; see some of the already-submitted comments to get an idea as to how off-target some can be.)
At the risk of seeming as if I'm merely self-promoting, for those who don't have time to read the entire ~100 page report but would be interested in commenting, I tried to summarize the report, as well as suggest some targeted consumer-privacy friendly comments.
Yep. To quote the article: "When people frantically begin shredding sensitive documents and deleting computer files and smashing flash drives and chasing garbage trucks at 2 a.m. ... it is not because they have been operating legitimately," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Ahhh the old "if you are innocent, then you shouldn't have a right to privacy" argument.
Obviously I disagree.
I'd destroy my hard drive too if I got word the government was coming. They don't need to know that I donated to wikileaks and other projects.
The difference here is that people engaged in finance --because they are dealing with other peoples' money-- are held to a different set of rules. One of those rules --and it's a big and very well-known one in finance-- is that if you can reasonably anticipate litigation, you are under a legal obligation to preserve any documents or data that might be relevant to that litigation.
If you do destroy relevant data, depending on whether your actions ranged from accidentally going along with normal office policy to ridiculously obviously willful destruction of evidence, the penalties can range from an optional slap on the wrist to an assumption that whatever you destroyed was incriminating.
That is an excellent idea. However the California Correctional Peace Officer's Association is one of, if not the, most powerful political entities in the state., and it is in the interest of the CCPOA to increase prisoners.
Policies to this effect are generally an easy political sell for the CCPOA, since "tough on crime" tends to be a sound bite with purchase. At least it seems so far to have been a more effective one than "should that nonviolent action really be illegal?"
Technically yes, but not logically. If you think that politicians and lawyers aren't terrorists because they aren't *logical* enough as a class, your own logic is wanting. They are generally more skilled than engineers at directing the actions of others. If your goal is to terrorize, it's logical to delegate the risk to others.
Since not committing terrorist acts is much more logical than committing them, it's not as if neither the terrorist engineer nor the terrorist-inspiring politician/lawyer is logical in an absolute sense. But relatively speaking, the terrorist politician/lawyer's path --delegating the risk of exposure/imprisonment/death-- is more logical than shouldering the risk on one's own.
Watching that many is certainly possible, but recalling them all seems unlikely.
World record holder Gwilym Hughes got it by watching ~14 films a week from 1953 to 2008. He said: "People think that I'm glued to the television set 24 hours a day but I'm not because I'm a member of about 10 organisations. I watch films from about 9pm until about 12. Sometimes I could set up one on the televisions in the study. It works out about 10 to 14 films a week."
His favorite movies is also one of my favorites -- Lawrence of Arabia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11066046
The prostitution ads have already started to move to "Therapeutic Services" under the guise of massage and bodywork. Adult Services was like a CL trash folder; it kept the other sections relatively free of prostitution ads.
CL had implemented a verification scheme and extra hoop-jumping for ads in Adult Services after the earlier lawsuits. CL has always been willing to comply with law enforcement requests supported by warrants. If the point was fighting prostitution, what the fuck more could CL have done? They gave police departments an up-to-the-minute list of suspect numbers, addresses, and business fronts to investigate. CL's verification efforts gave them even more info on the posters of such ads.
And the uninformed & grandstanding efforts of the 17 AGs who signed onto the August letter to CL have just trashed this. Prostitution ads are *already* be back to where they were when Adult Services was named Erotic Services. What a complete waste of time and money this game of whack-a-mole has been. Regardless of what you think of prostitution, these AGs have demonstrated that they are not able or willing to bother to spend the time to understand how to achieve their purported goals. An election is coming up.
Vote these incompetent AGs out. Their names are:
Kansas: Steve Six
Connecticut: Steven Blumenthal
Massachusetts: Martha Coakley
Arkansas: Dustin MacDaniel
Idaho: Lawrence Wadson
Illinois: Lisa Madigan
Iowa: Tom Miller
Maryland: Douglas F. Gansler
Michigan: Mike Cox
Missouri: Chris Koster
Montana: Steve Bullock
New Hampshire: Michael A. Delaney
Ohio: Richard Cordray
Rhode Island: Patrick C. Lynch
South Carolina: Henry McMaster
Tennessee: Robert E. Cooper, Jr.
Texas: Greg Abbott
Virginia: Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II
Deaths by airplane crash aren't newsworthy because they are so rare; it is because plummeting out of the sky seems so fascinatingly terrifying. It's similar to society's fascination with serial killers: rare, but scary.
Saying please before hand means that the work being done is done for the doctors benefit at the expense of someone elses time. Vs. Just shooting out orders that says you are here for me and just me.... there is a cost savings by making the Dr. think twice, as well it can help keep the load down for the labs for a while.
Granted I have never worked w/ MDs, so I can only take your post at face value. But from my perspective this policy seems to prioritize the emotional comfort of hospital staff above the quality of medical care.
I can understand your point where the tasks are degrading, arbitrary, or unnecessary. But sometimes a seemingly unnecessary blood test will yield information that makes for a faster, more accurate, or more efficient diagnosis and treatment, right?
How they check out the books has nothing to do with this system. The thumbprints take the traditional place of the library card or school ID.
Library circulation systems include patron accounts, and need a way to match book to person, be it card, thumbprint, or honor code.
If you sync Chrome to a gmail account on each device you can already get the behavior you describe. In preferences, select "On startup: Reopen the pages that were open last."
It's quite handy if you consistently move among devices.
Learn the names of the people you see every day. Say hello to them the first time you see them each day, and say goodbye as you leave.
It's a very basic bit of social etiquette, but often neglected at work. The simple act of verbally acknowledging the presence of others can have a dramatic improvement on your work environment on several levels.
It's the difference in the elastic modulus among materials. The envelopes, manual, and cardboard packaging have different properties from the encased plastic discs. Opposing shear forces with small enough clearance could easily snap a CD/DVD in the middle, without leaving any particularly unusual bend or mark on the external plant-pulp packaging. If the tire and road surfaces were flat and clean enough, a loaded semi could drive over a piece of mail without harming it; not so for the disc.
It seems the only winning move is not to rtfa.
There are certainly privacy concerns, but discussion of these tends to dismiss possible benefits of this sort of thing. I believe an appropriate balance here would be a system that accepted RFID hit as indicative of someone's presence, but did not count a lack of an RFID hit as proof of absence. That way people who object to the system could leave their IDs, wrap them in foil, or otherwise not use or disable the function.
That's not how fiduciary duty works, for several reasons. Short egregious violations and an accompanying CYA failure, neither the executives nor the board members will personally liable for damages; that's one of the main points of incorporating in the first place. The SHs might be able to leverage this problem into a voting in new board members --who will then be able to affect the employment of company executives-- but I seriously doubt that will happen.
Liability is going to hit BP. The executives, board, and shareholders will be affected only to this extent that this reduces the value of their shares.
Two questions:
1. Where does such a "do formulas like OpenOffice.org" element appear?
2. Are "formulas like OpenOffice.org" open to the public? The whole closed-source thing seemed to be the problem with "do stuff like Word 95". You can see how OpenOffice.org does formulas, but you can't see how Word 95 does them.