When a company with on staff lawyers and an entire department for HR does this, it is not an accident.
I could believe that the "contract" saying you can't take photos of the equipment at McDonalds when you get a job as a cashier there, is "bad management". But, I have never had (or known personally anyone who has had) a single employer supply the terms of employment to an employee prior to them arriving on the first day. I'm sure that EVERY company doesn't have bad management.
I only wish that I could agree that it was an oversight. If it was we could just ask for the paperwork at the time of the offer, and it would be a non-issue.
As long as the sex is in a Disney movie, giving yourself a blowjob in public is perfectly ok.
Shrek 2 has Puss In Boots played by Antonio Banderas sitting on the back of a horse giving himself a blow job when Princess Fiona played by Cameron Diaz walks in and mistakes him for Shrek played by Mike Myers.
So, just ask anyone complaining about GTA:SA what they think about Shrek 2. If they say that Shrek 2 is ok, and GTA:SA is bad, then they are either to stupid to understand the ideas that they are parroting, or they are one of those people that just want to see the video game industry go down, irrelevent of the facts.
Part of the problem is that often (I don't know about this case), draconian "contracts" are presented well after a person has left their last job. You show up to work the first day, and the employer hands you a packet to sign. If you don't sign, you are now unemployed. This mean that most employee "contracts" are signed under duress. While I have never heard of this being used in a lawsuit, I certainly would like to see it used, as the current situation creates an unfair barganing position for employers.
So, what part of the operator not knowing my location is different than the issue with Vonage? Other than the fact that we had to pay for the claim that they would locate us, and never delivered?
The FCC has NOT drawn a line that says all phones must work alike. The last time I called 911 from my cell phone was after they implemented the tracking system that we all paid form. The 911 operator did not know my location, and I had to tell her.
Also, since Cingular bought AT&T, they have downgraded service to the transferred customers. Dropping calls, not ringing calls through, not delivering messages for hours. Disconnecting phones from the their network without any notice; requiring users to reboot their phone to reconnect.
Now, most the the Cingular problems are not directly related to 911, but certainly the FCC has not required Cingular's cell phones to work like a land line.
Each one of you keep suggesting that the roads are still going to be there...The designer was clear that this was a REPLACEMENT for roads. Also, how is that guy making minimum wage going to afford a moving company. Since he doesn't drive. Why would he? He always public transportation right?
"How did he get the money to get into the vehicle and live there?"
He got it from the asshole that doesn't mind making beggin a profitable business just so he can feel good by giving money to a bum.
" What did he do when one of the users pressed the reject button and sent him and the vehicle to the depot for servicing?"
He waits their every day until the same user tries to use that station again, and stabs or rapes them.
"Really? You haven't done the maths have you? Average ridership for cars in the US is 1.2 people per vehicle. The Taxi2000 has space for 3. The vehicles run with a 0.5second headway, 7,200 vehicles per hour (a highway lane is about 2000 vehicle per hour)."
This doesn't fail because of the 90% of the cars that have one driver. It fails because of the 10% with 4. Disenfrachising people just because you don't fall into their group is just not ok.
"7,200 vehicles per hour (a highway lane is about 2000 vehicle per hour)"
So, a 4 lane highway can handle more traffic. Ok. And at what speed do these vehicles in one lane need to travel to handle that traffic? Are those numbers calculated at one person per vehicle? Because people are certainly not going to start carpooling MORE because of a system like this.
"No, it doesn't. It has a similar infrastructure cost to suburban roadways, about 8million dollars per mile. No drivers to be paid, stations every 800metres or so. With those levels of cost and coverage it can support urban and suburban populace."
I'm not buying the numbers. You are going to need security at each of those stations to stop the rapings and muggings. You are going to need huge numbers of people to clean the urine from the cars and stations. The numbers your stating sound like best case for pods, and worst for cars.
You also have to remember that huge parts of our country are rural. Basically these kinds of schemes would require an entire rework of our entire culture from the top down. They are not answers to OUR transportation problems. There are answers, but this isn't even close.
The flaws of that idea are to numerous to count. But here are some:
* They had nothing indicating how the urine that the bum who is living in it is going to be cleaned. Don't say that it will get sent back to a cleaning crew. Just look at the vast majority of public restrooms (since that is what these would quickly become). Even with staff on site, they are generally not kept clean.
* Population control. Unless you plan to inact Chinese style population control, a three person shuttle is simply not going to cut it.
* Rats in a cage. This designer has fallen prey to one of the most common problems that total mass transit advocates fall prey to. It requires everyone to live in tiny high rise condos. People don't want that. They want a house that you don't have to listen to your neighbors arguing next door, and a yard for their kids to play in. This would also require huge numbers of people to give up an use of their land.
* Cannot move. If you somehow get a bed into your new rat cage condo, how do you move. I don't think that king size bed, or your dresser for that matter, are going to fit inside one of those little pods. Or, does the desinger suggest that we all start sleeping on roll up mats, and keep our clothes in easily collapsible boxes?
* Roads will still be needed for delivery. The claim that this would make roads unnecessary is childish at best. Even if we do start sleeping on roll up mats, there are huge numbers of products that simply are not feasible to shrink to human size. For example: Sheetrock, couches, large TVs, bunny hutches, carpet, the kinds of air conditioners required for cooling these rat cage condos to safe levels, furnices large enough to heat these same buildings to safe levels. I'm sure others could add thousands of items to this list.
* Does teaching children that government censorship is ok cause problems for children and society?
* If the parents don't do anything about this censorship, then do we just let the damage happen anyway?
* What age was considered a child historically, as opposed to the last century? Do parents have increasingly less control over what their 15 year old does?
Unfortunatly, there are many of us that see the children of the censor happy parents as the ones screwing up their kids. They are not only bringing up their children in a fantasy world that prevents them from learning to cope with ideas that they are sure to be faced with once they are no longer under the protective wing of their parent, but also teaching them that whatever arbitrary set of moral standards they have, are absolute, and should be FORCED on everyone around them.
So, You have labeled the wrong group as "messed up parents", and are afraid of the wrong group.
It amazes me the hypocracy that goes on here. A majority of the posts whine and complain about the government getting involved, then insist that parents who make the informed choice that their child can understand the difference between real and imaginary are somehow bad people.
When you take the stance that letting your kids play these games are inherently wrong, and that parents would only let their kids play them if they are failing at being a parent, you are screaming for legislation.
It's great that they put some kind of information on the box. But, the real key is in teaching kids the difference between real and fantasy.
I'm still amazed how many parents whine about content, then let their kids watch Shrek 2 over and over again just because it is rated PG. This is the movie that is loaded with sex and violence, including a scene where a woman walks in on a guy sucking his own cock!
You have to remember that their is a large group of people that get a feeling of superiority by not having TV. For some reason many of them think that penis jokes Southpark is trash, but penis jokes in Shakespear is art.
I assume that you are willing to accept the likely possiblity that the imbalance is caused by a large percentage of women being unwilling to learn the skills necessary to work effectively in that field?
"But at the same time, I think it's hard for guys to realize just how much discrimination there still is out there."
Let me get this straight... Lumping all men into a group and stating that they will have difficulty understanding a perticular idea is ok, but doing the same to women is wrong?
Perhaps it is not that there is a significant amount of discrimination, but instead, maybe it is just that there are a large number of people that don't understand when something is discriminitory, and when it is not.
Uh, given that Microsoft has been cought Illegally copying code for inclusion in thier OS multiple times, I don't know how you can assume that they are clean now. The first biggie I remember was when they copied Stacker code into DOS 6. They didn't even bother to remove Stackers name from the code.
Also, you have to keep in mind that a Chinese characters are entire words. So while a symbol might have to be four times the size to be readable, it also will be one symbol for what could be five or six symbols in English.
I'm with you. The line that the console manufacturers loose money on each sale is not likely. It amazes me how many people can accept the "creative accounting" done by the MPAA and RIAA to rationalize the price/profit in the movie and music industry, but don't believe that the same goes on in the console industry.
Really, I understand that the music and gaming parts of Sony are different divisions. But, to think that the Music division of Sony uses smoke and mirrors in their accounting, but the console division is giving us the staight scoop, seems kind of silly.
"You would hope us humans would have learned out lesson about draining the natural resources by then."
The problem with using natural resouces isn't that you use them. It is only a problem if you use them faster than they replenish themselves. Or, if you care whether they run out or not.
The problem with useing "Vandelay Enterprises" is that the unemployment office has the employer ID number that the business is run under, and if you claim to have paid this person a salary, you are obliged to have paid taxes. Or at least filed. Once you have failed to do that, you are in it with the IRS. While "technically" the police are not supposed to go to the IRS to convict you of a crime, the IRS can go to anyone they want to convict you of tax evasion.
If the IRS can bring down Capon, they can certainly take out some chump fraudulently collecting unemployment checks.
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When a company with on staff lawyers and an entire department for HR does this, it is not an accident.
I could believe that the "contract" saying you can't take photos of the equipment at McDonalds when you get a job as a cashier there, is "bad management". But, I have never had (or known personally anyone who has had) a single employer supply the terms of employment to an employee prior to them arriving on the first day. I'm sure that EVERY company doesn't have bad management.
I only wish that I could agree that it was an oversight. If it was we could just ask for the paperwork at the time of the offer, and it would be a non-issue.
As long as the sex is in a Disney movie, giving yourself a blowjob in public is perfectly ok.
Shrek 2 has Puss In Boots played by Antonio Banderas sitting on the back of a horse giving himself a blow job when Princess Fiona played by Cameron Diaz walks in and mistakes him for Shrek played by Mike Myers.
So, just ask anyone complaining about GTA:SA what they think about Shrek 2. If they say that Shrek 2 is ok, and GTA:SA is bad, then they are either to stupid to understand the ideas that they are parroting, or they are one of those people that just want to see the video game industry go down, irrelevent of the facts.
Your not happy that the Axis nations tried to fight on too many fronts?!?!?!? (Just kidding...)
Part of the problem is that often (I don't know about this case), draconian "contracts" are presented well after a person has left their last job. You show up to work the first day, and the employer hands you a packet to sign. If you don't sign, you are now unemployed. This mean that most employee "contracts" are signed under duress. While I have never heard of this being used in a lawsuit, I certainly would like to see it used, as the current situation creates an unfair barganing position for employers.
You have to wonder if adding the extra 130 pins (even if they were not connected to anything internal) would increase or decrease their sales.
It's great when you get to read something that just screams 'It's funny because it true!'
So, what part of the operator not knowing my location is different than the issue with Vonage? Other than the fact that we had to pay for the claim that they would locate us, and never delivered?
The FCC has NOT drawn a line that says all phones must work alike. The last time I called 911 from my cell phone was after they implemented the tracking system that we all paid form. The 911 operator did not know my location, and I had to tell her.
Also, since Cingular bought AT&T, they have downgraded service to the transferred customers. Dropping calls, not ringing calls through, not delivering messages for hours. Disconnecting phones from the their network without any notice; requiring users to reboot their phone to reconnect.
Now, most the the Cingular problems are not directly related to 911, but certainly the FCC has not required Cingular's cell phones to work like a land line.
Each one of you keep suggesting that the roads are still going to be there...The designer was clear that this was a REPLACEMENT for roads. Also, how is that guy making minimum wage going to afford a moving company. Since he doesn't drive. Why would he? He always public transportation right?
"How did he get the money to get into the vehicle and live there?"
He got it from the asshole that doesn't mind making beggin a profitable business just so he can feel good by giving money to a bum.
" What did he do when one of the users pressed the reject button and sent him and the vehicle to the depot for servicing?"
He waits their every day until the same user tries to use that station again, and stabs or rapes them.
"Really? You haven't done the maths have you? Average ridership for cars in the US is 1.2 people per vehicle. The Taxi2000 has space for 3. The vehicles run with a 0.5second headway, 7,200 vehicles per hour (a highway lane is about 2000 vehicle per hour)."
This doesn't fail because of the 90% of the cars that have one driver. It fails because of the 10% with 4. Disenfrachising people just because you don't fall into their group is just not ok.
"7,200 vehicles per hour (a highway lane is about 2000 vehicle per hour)"
So, a 4 lane highway can handle more traffic. Ok. And at what speed do these vehicles in one lane need to travel to handle that traffic? Are those numbers calculated at one person per vehicle? Because people are certainly not going to start carpooling MORE because of a system like this.
"No, it doesn't. It has a similar infrastructure cost to suburban roadways, about 8million dollars per mile. No drivers to be paid, stations every 800metres or so. With those levels of cost and coverage it can support urban and suburban populace."
I'm not buying the numbers. You are going to need security at each of those stations to stop the rapings and muggings. You are going to need huge numbers of people to clean the urine from the cars and stations. The numbers your stating sound like best case for pods, and worst for cars.
You also have to remember that huge parts of our country are rural. Basically these kinds of schemes would require an entire rework of our entire culture from the top down. They are not answers to OUR transportation problems. There are answers, but this isn't even close.
Read the link. The designer claims this will replace roads, which makes your entire post pointless.
The flaws of that idea are to numerous to count. But here are some:
* They had nothing indicating how the urine that the bum who is living in it is going to be cleaned. Don't say that it will get sent back to a cleaning crew. Just look at the vast majority of public restrooms (since that is what these would quickly become). Even with staff on site, they are generally not kept clean.
* Population control. Unless you plan to inact Chinese style population control, a three person shuttle is simply not going to cut it.
* Rats in a cage. This designer has fallen prey to one of the most common problems that total mass transit advocates fall prey to. It requires everyone to live in tiny high rise condos. People don't want that. They want a house that you don't have to listen to your neighbors arguing next door, and a yard for their kids to play in. This would also require huge numbers of people to give up an use of their land.
* Cannot move. If you somehow get a bed into your new rat cage condo, how do you move. I don't think that king size bed, or your dresser for that matter, are going to fit inside one of those little pods. Or, does the desinger suggest that we all start sleeping on roll up mats, and keep our clothes in easily collapsible boxes?
* Roads will still be needed for delivery. The claim that this would make roads unnecessary is childish at best. Even if we do start sleeping on roll up mats, there are huge numbers of products that simply are not feasible to shrink to human size. For example: Sheetrock, couches, large TVs, bunny hutches, carpet, the kinds of air conditioners required for cooling these rat cage condos to safe levels, furnices large enough to heat these same buildings to safe levels. I'm sure others could add thousands of items to this list.
The list goes on....
* Does teaching children that government censorship is ok cause problems for children and society?
* If the parents don't do anything about this censorship, then do we just let the damage happen anyway?
* What age was considered a child historically, as opposed to the last century? Do parents have increasingly less control over what their 15 year old does?
Unfortunatly, there are many of us that see the children of the censor happy parents as the ones screwing up their kids. They are not only bringing up their children in a fantasy world that prevents them from learning to cope with ideas that they are sure to be faced with once they are no longer under the protective wing of their parent, but also teaching them that whatever arbitrary set of moral standards they have, are absolute, and should be FORCED on everyone around them.
So, You have labeled the wrong group as "messed up parents", and are afraid of the wrong group.
It amazes me the hypocracy that goes on here. A majority of the posts whine and complain about the government getting involved, then insist that parents who make the informed choice that their child can understand the difference between real and imaginary are somehow bad people.
When you take the stance that letting your kids play these games are inherently wrong, and that parents would only let their kids play them if they are failing at being a parent, you are screaming for legislation.
It's great that they put some kind of information on the box. But, the real key is in teaching kids the difference between real and fantasy.
I'm still amazed how many parents whine about content, then let their kids watch Shrek 2 over and over again just because it is rated PG. This is the movie that is loaded with sex and violence, including a scene where a woman walks in on a guy sucking his own cock!
You have to remember that their is a large group of people that get a feeling of superiority by not having TV. For some reason many of them think that penis jokes Southpark is trash, but penis jokes in Shakespear is art.
I assume that you are willing to accept the likely possiblity that the imbalance is caused by a large percentage of women being unwilling to learn the skills necessary to work effectively in that field?
"But at the same time, I think it's hard for guys to realize just how much discrimination there still is out there."
Let me get this straight... Lumping all men into a group and stating that they will have difficulty understanding a perticular idea is ok, but doing the same to women is wrong?
Perhaps it is not that there is a significant amount of discrimination, but instead, maybe it is just that there are a large number of people that don't understand when something is discriminitory, and when it is not.
Uh, given that Microsoft has been cought Illegally copying code for inclusion in thier OS multiple times, I don't know how you can assume that they are clean now. The first biggie I remember was when they copied Stacker code into DOS 6. They didn't even bother to remove Stackers name from the code.
You can skateboard. Just not well. You are also allowed to play guitar. Just no screaming metal riffs.
Also, you have to keep in mind that a Chinese characters are entire words. So while a symbol might have to be four times the size to be readable, it also will be one symbol for what could be five or six symbols in English.
I'm with you. The line that the console manufacturers loose money on each sale is not likely. It amazes me how many people can accept the "creative accounting" done by the MPAA and RIAA to rationalize the price/profit in the movie and music industry, but don't believe that the same goes on in the console industry.
Really, I understand that the music and gaming parts of Sony are different divisions. But, to think that the Music division of Sony uses smoke and mirrors in their accounting, but the console division is giving us the staight scoop, seems kind of silly.
The first copyright infringement of a physical object!
"You would hope us humans would have learned out lesson about draining the natural resources by then." The problem with using natural resouces isn't that you use them. It is only a problem if you use them faster than they replenish themselves. Or, if you care whether they run out or not.
The problem with useing "Vandelay Enterprises" is that the unemployment office has the employer ID number that the business is run under, and if you claim to have paid this person a salary, you are obliged to have paid taxes. Or at least filed. Once you have failed to do that, you are in it with the IRS. While "technically" the police are not supposed to go to the IRS to convict you of a crime, the IRS can go to anyone they want to convict you of tax evasion.
If the IRS can bring down Capon, they can certainly take out some chump fraudulently collecting unemployment checks.