Why is this a surprise? Tesla is a High Tech company.
After working in the High Tech world for most of my career, I've come to expect layoffs. Fully half of the companies I've worked for have laid me off, never for cause. I don't think I was ever singled out because of the expense of my salary. It was always because the company had made a business decision to downsize or close a business unit. Most of the individual leaders I worked for tried to hire me into the next place they landed, and were sometimes successful.
This business is speculative. Sometimes the money is there, sometimes not. Sometimes your product sells, sometimes it does not. Look at the statistics on the success of start-ups. Most of them fail. If you're working for one that fails, you get laid off. Other times the revenue is just not there to support a large business, so the owners decide to make it a smaller business, to fit the new revenue model. They don't owe you a living. This environment does not produce jobs for life.
The best thing to do is learn to read the warning signs, have an exit plan, and have some money set aside for when the time comes. Maintain your employ-ability by learning the latest marketable skills (on your own time if you have to). Be ready, be valuable, be well networked with your work community. This is how it is.
Can they make the calorie display optional? I want it. All my other walking apps can tell me how many calories each walk is worth. I don't need the display forced on those who don't want it, but I'd like to have access.
Why did they need a land bridge to get to North America? I want to know how the Hawaiians got to Hawaii. If they can cross that much empty ocean (three fourths of the way across the Pacific from the west), then island hopping along the Aleutians from Japan to Seattle is child's play. Clinging to the land bridge theory is insulting, and difficult to prove. It's easier to prove the existence of sailing canoes and Hawaiians.
The fact that money was found in the Columbia River Basin does not show that he jumped there. He may have opened the door and thrown some of the money out, to leave a false trail. He could then have jumped much later, with the rest of the money.
The TRS-80 is the first computer I spent an appreciable amount of time programming. It was owned by an old guy who ran a pawn shop. It was kept in the back office, intended for doing the books. All there was for storage was an audio tape recorder. My friends and I spent hours on it, typing in programs printed in computer magazines, and debugging them. I wrote programs to help the old guy run the pawn shop.
Yeah, that's the ticket! It tastes "different". You don't believe me? Try it! You don't have any? Well, we'll have to ship some more up there then. That's going to be awfully expensive, so I'll have to charge extra for it.
This might make the "angel's share" easier to collect. Maybe there will be an "astronaut's share" as well. Yeah, that'll do it.
"Every time an astronaut gets his bell rung, an angel gets his share."
Did anyone stop to think that maybe they just don't want to? I'm a Software Engineer with three very smart daughters (they are bored in Honors Calculus), and none of them have the slightest interest in what goes on inside a computer. I'd love to teach them programming, but they just won't sit still for it. They are headed toward Medicine, because they find helping people is more rewarding than poking around inside computers, and I'm not trying to talk them out of it.
I know, small sample, personal anecdote, but my basic message is: Let them decide for themselves, and then ask them later why they chose what they did. Don't condescend to try to fix the system for them. Trust them to stick up for themselves. Once they get used to deciding for themselves, and relying on their supporters, they can go anywhere. Support them, don't decide for them.
So instead of flying by depending on forming an aerodynamic vacuum above the wing, they are possibly also taking advantage of van der Waals forces to electrostatically bond their wing momentarily to the surrounding air molecules as they push themselves forward? For the dragonfly, it would be like swimming through a mass of metallic ping-pong balls, using magnetic paddles. I wonder if anyone has thought to look at the electrical capabilities of the dragonfly, and the Gecko, which more famously uses van der Waals forces to climb glass.
Hasn't Microsoft been performing this same "act of terrorism" on millions of PCs for the last couple of decades? Windows has given me more cold sweats over senseless and irrecoverable data loss than Linux has.
Honesty, yes, but how about journalistic integrity? Linus has since recanted his statements. The community doesn't look so good when it repeats older parts of a changing story. It also doesn't do Linus any good to keep characterizing him based on his first statements. He would probably rather be judged on what was said in it's entirety. Slashdot does not look good putting this across with this headline. This is how media bias is practiced.
What if all the countries that sign up are ones that only want to make withdrawals? Who puts the uranium in the bank vault, and why would they want to do so? Sounds like a uranium supply company, not a bank.
Perhaps set it up as an international public utility, if we can't stand to have more than one supply company. If we *can* allow competition, then how is that different from what we have right now?
Maybe we should review the nuclear non-proliferation rules, and see if we can ease some restrictions that pertain to reactor fuel. I can't be the first to think of that, so that's not do-able, for some reason. Maybe they think the fuel consumers can't be trusted to refrain from enriching new fuel into weapons-grade material. Wait, if that is our fear now, how is this bank going to be any different? A country uses the bank to get fuel, and then they enrich it. We tell them to stop, and then we get the Saddam Hussein run-around, where our inspectors can never find the fuel we think they have. That or the fuel gets stolen, lost, or buried in the desert somewhere.
I think we can see why this won't work.
The rich will still buy it, because it will be like having a chauffeur. They can sit in the back, read their Wall Street Journal, and harrumph at every bit of news.
Where did we begin to think we have a right to not be filmed when we are out in public? Take the Air Force out of the equation, and there is no issue here. A cop with a dash-cam gets a lot closer than any drone can, and he can film you legally and collect evidence without engaging any Posse Comitatus issues. Besides, any reasonably competent defense attorney could get military-sourced surveillance evidence thrown out. Move along. Nothing to see here.
They are trying to use a technical solution to address a social problem. Train the people to be professional and respectful of their co-workers' time and the problem will take care of itself. Besides, if my incoming emails become too troublesome, I adjust my notifications, and deal with the emails when I need to, not when they arrive. I don't want the company controlling that valve for me. It's a clumsy way to try to address the problem.
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Just set up a cell local to the building that doesn't actually complete calls. The phones will register with it, and their calls won't go through.
Blockchain the votes, so the results are public, and anyone can check their own vote, but no one else can determine how someone voted.
Why is this a surprise? Tesla is a High Tech company. After working in the High Tech world for most of my career, I've come to expect layoffs. Fully half of the companies I've worked for have laid me off, never for cause. I don't think I was ever singled out because of the expense of my salary. It was always because the company had made a business decision to downsize or close a business unit. Most of the individual leaders I worked for tried to hire me into the next place they landed, and were sometimes successful. This business is speculative. Sometimes the money is there, sometimes not. Sometimes your product sells, sometimes it does not. Look at the statistics on the success of start-ups. Most of them fail. If you're working for one that fails, you get laid off. Other times the revenue is just not there to support a large business, so the owners decide to make it a smaller business, to fit the new revenue model. They don't owe you a living. This environment does not produce jobs for life. The best thing to do is learn to read the warning signs, have an exit plan, and have some money set aside for when the time comes. Maintain your employ-ability by learning the latest marketable skills (on your own time if you have to). Be ready, be valuable, be well networked with your work community. This is how it is.
Can they make the calorie display optional? I want it. All my other walking apps can tell me how many calories each walk is worth. I don't need the display forced on those who don't want it, but I'd like to have access.
Why did they need a land bridge to get to North America? I want to know how the Hawaiians got to Hawaii. If they can cross that much empty ocean (three fourths of the way across the Pacific from the west), then island hopping along the Aleutians from Japan to Seattle is child's play. Clinging to the land bridge theory is insulting, and difficult to prove. It's easier to prove the existence of sailing canoes and Hawaiians.
The fact that money was found in the Columbia River Basin does not show that he jumped there. He may have opened the door and thrown some of the money out, to leave a false trail. He could then have jumped much later, with the rest of the money.
Nickov? I thought that was Fermat's Last Theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The TRS-80 is the first computer I spent an appreciable amount of time programming. It was owned by an old guy who ran a pawn shop. It was kept in the back office, intended for doing the books. All there was for storage was an audio tape recorder. My friends and I spent hours on it, typing in programs printed in computer magazines, and debugging them. I wrote programs to help the old guy run the pawn shop.
Has it really been dead that long? Maybe we should cut it open and count the rings.
Yeah, that's the ticket! It tastes "different". You don't believe me? Try it! You don't have any? Well, we'll have to ship some more up there then. That's going to be awfully expensive, so I'll have to charge extra for it. This might make the "angel's share" easier to collect. Maybe there will be an "astronaut's share" as well. Yeah, that'll do it. "Every time an astronaut gets his bell rung, an angel gets his share."
Another case: http://news.yahoo.com/french-w...
Sounds like a James Bond villain. I don't expect you to talk, Mr. Bond, I expect you to BLEED!
Did anyone stop to think that maybe they just don't want to? I'm a Software Engineer with three very smart daughters (they are bored in Honors Calculus), and none of them have the slightest interest in what goes on inside a computer. I'd love to teach them programming, but they just won't sit still for it. They are headed toward Medicine, because they find helping people is more rewarding than poking around inside computers, and I'm not trying to talk them out of it. I know, small sample, personal anecdote, but my basic message is: Let them decide for themselves, and then ask them later why they chose what they did. Don't condescend to try to fix the system for them. Trust them to stick up for themselves. Once they get used to deciding for themselves, and relying on their supporters, they can go anywhere. Support them, don't decide for them.
So instead of flying by depending on forming an aerodynamic vacuum above the wing, they are possibly also taking advantage of van der Waals forces to electrostatically bond their wing momentarily to the surrounding air molecules as they push themselves forward? For the dragonfly, it would be like swimming through a mass of metallic ping-pong balls, using magnetic paddles. I wonder if anyone has thought to look at the electrical capabilities of the dragonfly, and the Gecko, which more famously uses van der Waals forces to climb glass.
Hasn't Microsoft been performing this same "act of terrorism" on millions of PCs for the last couple of decades? Windows has given me more cold sweats over senseless and irrecoverable data loss than Linux has.
Honesty, yes, but how about journalistic integrity? Linus has since recanted his statements. The community doesn't look so good when it repeats older parts of a changing story. It also doesn't do Linus any good to keep characterizing him based on his first statements. He would probably rather be judged on what was said in it's entirety. Slashdot does not look good putting this across with this headline. This is how media bias is practiced.
What if all the countries that sign up are ones that only want to make withdrawals? Who puts the uranium in the bank vault, and why would they want to do so? Sounds like a uranium supply company, not a bank. Perhaps set it up as an international public utility, if we can't stand to have more than one supply company. If we *can* allow competition, then how is that different from what we have right now? Maybe we should review the nuclear non-proliferation rules, and see if we can ease some restrictions that pertain to reactor fuel. I can't be the first to think of that, so that's not do-able, for some reason. Maybe they think the fuel consumers can't be trusted to refrain from enriching new fuel into weapons-grade material. Wait, if that is our fear now, how is this bank going to be any different? A country uses the bank to get fuel, and then they enrich it. We tell them to stop, and then we get the Saddam Hussein run-around, where our inspectors can never find the fuel we think they have. That or the fuel gets stolen, lost, or buried in the desert somewhere. I think we can see why this won't work.
The rich will still buy it, because it will be like having a chauffeur. They can sit in the back, read their Wall Street Journal, and harrumph at every bit of news.
Can we backdoor the bill?
Where did we begin to think we have a right to not be filmed when we are out in public? Take the Air Force out of the equation, and there is no issue here. A cop with a dash-cam gets a lot closer than any drone can, and he can film you legally and collect evidence without engaging any Posse Comitatus issues. Besides, any reasonably competent defense attorney could get military-sourced surveillance evidence thrown out. Move along. Nothing to see here.
I laugh! Chemicals are comical!
They are trying to use a technical solution to address a social problem. Train the people to be professional and respectful of their co-workers' time and the problem will take care of itself. Besides, if my incoming emails become too troublesome, I adjust my notifications, and deal with the emails when I need to, not when they arrive. I don't want the company controlling that valve for me. It's a clumsy way to try to address the problem.
Insufficient escape velocity. I keep getting drawn back in, so valuable time and attention can be extracted from me.
Weird Al Yankovic suddenly gains a serious political significance.
This won't work for elderly midgets.