That's not the way the insurance companies work for life insurance.
It's more likely, they would deny you new coverage if your markers were up but that once you signed up - if you paid your premiums, then you would continue to be covered without further tests. And of course for term life, it wouldn't come up at all after you bought the policy.
I think you are missing the difference so I'll try to explain.
Looking at a cell phone is not offensive. Obviously showing the screen to a friend is not offensive.
Holding the camera up pointing at the room with the screen towards you would be offensive whether or not you were filming.
Glass is the equivalent of walking around holding your cell phone up in filming position... all the time. You may not be recording but nothing stops you from quickly flipping into recording mode or taking pictures.
These people are trying to relax. Some of them may be having affairs while they "work late at the office".
Some of them may be criminal types, meeting in the bar for business.
And you are walking around holding a camera up, ready to start taking pictures of them at any instant.
Save 1 crew, save the ship (this was the chosen option) Lose 1 crew, lose the ship (this is what happened) Lose 1 crew, save the ship by leaving it in orbit til it can be repaired. Lose 2 crews, lose two ships. (a high risk with the atlantis plan) Save both crews, lose no ships. (probably very likely to occur) a) repair it. b) carry crew down- leave columbia to be repaired later.
We killed 3500 young americans to protect oil and gasoline prices over the last 10 years.
Not when you are talking about astronauts who signed on knowing death was a high risk and you are risking a multi billion dollar space ship.
Plus, if you let the astronauts die, you CAN recover the columbia when the atlantis is really ready so you are really talking about risky two multi-billion dollar space ships and the entire program.
If I were one of the astronauts I would have said don't you dare try to save me unless it is 99% going to work. I wouldn't have the loss of two ships and the death of the space program on my shoulders.
Sometimes, you have to make hard choices. This was one of those situations.
They bring them in on an "L" visa to work here at native company wages for six months in one calendar year and then six months in the next calendar year.
N OOPPP S O PPVPP O R PPDHO U T VMRWM T H MVRWM H --West
H= Hospital, Museum and Park district.
We have no zoning in houston but deed restrictions and politics prevent random rampant reuse of land. You typically see areas shift very slowly to new purposes over a couple decades. Developers TRY to force this (Our "Galleria Area" being an example) but often fail the first couple times before the idea "takes" (The galleria was basically empty and tiny for a looooong time-- today you can't even find parking and it's full to the gills--- so full a lot of people won't go there any more. lol)
P=Poor (Shotgun sheds, lots of minorities) V=Being redeveloped to a wealthy area from poor or middle class. M=Museum, Hospital & Park district W=Wealthy (Upper Middle Class- $500k houses) R=Obscenely Rich- includes Memorial Park O=Industrial Parks M=Middle Class areas
Going out another layer -- East N OOPPP S O PPVPP O R PPDMO U T VMRWM T H MVRWM H --West
Basically-- for historical reasons and because of a large bayou running through town, the east side was poor for decades and is just now changing.
In a really big ring around all this is a lot of "M" areas (the suburbs). Houston is bigger across than some states.
The Center for Public Integrity found compensation for leaders of the 10 largest unions ranged from $173,000 at the United Auto Workers to $618,000 at the Laborersâ(TM) International Union of North America and almost $480,000 for the president of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. The latter is the target of GOP governors in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Kansas.
Wowsers! $618,000 dollars a year!!!
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Productivity improvements via robotics and automation are destroying jobs quickly now--- and the pace is increasing. As you would suspect, these industries do not employ nearly as many people as they replace.
The only solution I can see is to lower the "full time" work week AND to stop abuse of the "exempt" status. Unless a person founded/owns the business or directly manages at least three other people who they make hiring/firing/promotion/salary decisions for- they should not be classified as "exempt" and any work they do over 45 hours a week should qualify for overtime. Any work past 55 hours a week should qualify for double time.
The 40 hour work week and overtime was created to tighten up employment in the first time. Lowering the work week and removing the abuse of the "exempt" status is a logical next step.
Because within 25 year- if you don't, you are looking at a minimum of 20% unemployment- even if you have a degree with good grades.
While a 2d6 roll MIGHT be a "12" or a "2", it would be unwise to bet better than 1:6 odds against a "7".
Randomness has great predictive ability. Many aspects of your life (traffic, life insurance, food safety, politics) are better understood and used in a "random" context.
And while the chair I'm sitting on may vaporize in two seconds- the VERY great probability is that it will remain intact. So I'm going to risk sitting on it.
It's a well made film with good writing about a robot who achieves enlightenment and how humans react (both positively and negatively) to the fact that a robot has done so.
If a robot can think sufficiently finely, it will be possible for it to think it has a soul and is saved or will be reincarnated or it meets the criteria for whatever other religions out there exist that do not explicitly prohibit members who do not meet certain historical standards.
I think that's at least a hundred years off.
Hopefully robots will not create or join a religion which has a failure of friendliness.
It was in text when I copied it... here' I'll fix it.
Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He said to the waitress: I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream. The waitress replied: I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?
It looks like the apostrophe's were not normal apostrophe's.
And this being slashdot, they can massively change the interface but are unable to let you edit your posts for even five minutes after you post! LOL.
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Thanks for the complement-- I "don't" post about 4 times to 1 time I do post. I'll write it up and then think- is this really worth posting or did I just need to say it.
I also moderate a lot and focus on moderating up posts that are polite but an unpopular opinion. I don't think we should moderate things down just because we don't agree.
Don't see a lot of talk about the thousands dead in the OVER TEN YEAR long war in the middle east do you?
This is the kind of things the Smothers Brothers said that made the president of the united states call the president of CBS at 3am too tell him to shut them up.
But you can have sex just about anyway you want as long as the partners are of age.
Drugs and religion are fine too.
Just don't bother the powers that be where it really matters to them. If you do that, you'll be unemployed (freedom of speech protects you from the government- not from being fired by your company because it doesn't like what you said- or one of its business partners doesn't like what you said).
I'm hoping that employee abuse will be forced to decline as a result.
My last job before I retired, they worked us 70+ hours per week (multiple heart attacks, divorces, etc) with the implied promise we'd pick up SAP skills and have nice jobs after the implementation. Then (as happens with MANY SAP implementations), at the end they laid 95% of us off and upgraded Infosys (who had been "helping") to support the entire project.
I had to work thru it since I was so close to retirement (and they were paying us very well and providing free lunch and dinner while working us in 20 day long "weeks" of 12 hour days ) but my advice is- if Infosys is brought in to "help", start looking for a new job. Many of the people let go have not found work and it's been over a year.
I met a ex co-worker on the plane back from Winter Park last night and she said the conditions are better (40-50 hour weeks for six months now) but Infosys has been a challenge to work with. They are very literal and they never ever say no to anything. They just say they'll "do their best" and you have to understand that means "no, I can't do this." Upper management still plans on this as a "yes." so there have been repeated failures to meet targets.
Get your certs and find a new job if your employer is abusing you. You don't have to take it right now and sometime soon we are going to have another 6-18 month long downturn. The current cycle is 62 months long-- that's historic in length.
One thing to keep in mind is that you may be paying over $10,000 dollars extra for that capacity vs renting a really big long range truck the few times a year you need this ability.
If it turns out you don't need that extra range, then you paid a lot of extra money for nothing.
However, there seems to be a severe disconnect between extra range and price. It should be cheap and a simple matter to have a slightly larger gas tank but that's not the way things work out in practice.
I've seen some people just load 10 to 15 extra gallons of a gas on a tow mounted shelf behind the car but I guess those shelves cost a five hundred to a thousand bucks.
There is only so much beach front property, downtown workspace, premium ski lodge property, 20 minutes at the top of mount everest (currently costs $100,000 plus you have to wait in line with 200 other climbers even at that price-- they should seriously wait at a lower base camp instead of right below the peak- it's killing people the way they do it now. they could wait at a lower camp- then leave for their 20 minutes at the top).
And premium time saving options like the superpass at disney (since most of us are all really just trading hours of our lives for things ultimately).
For normal things tho- I think we are approaching post scarcity and an inability to find work which can't be done cheaper by a machine or program. Even the lowly security guard job is about to take a 95% reduction over the next decade due to a sub $30,000 robot that can work 3 shifts semi-autonomously.
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Come on man, you are really telling me that you hold your camera up in a filming position to show pictures to your friend?
Puh-leaze.
That's not the way the insurance companies work for life insurance.
It's more likely, they would deny you new coverage if your markers were up but that once you signed up - if you paid your premiums, then you would continue to be covered without further tests. And of course for term life, it wouldn't come up at all after you bought the policy.
I think you are missing the difference so I'll try to explain.
Looking at a cell phone is not offensive.
Obviously showing the screen to a friend is not offensive.
Holding the camera up pointing at the room with the screen towards you would be offensive whether or not you were filming.
Glass is the equivalent of walking around holding your cell phone up in filming position... all the time. You may not be recording but nothing stops you from quickly flipping into recording mode or taking pictures.
These people are trying to relax. Some of them may be having affairs while they "work late at the office".
Some of them may be criminal types, meeting in the bar for business.
And you are walking around holding a camera up, ready to start taking pictures of them at any instant.
They call them "software engineers" these days.
Because they want to have the illusion that programmers are generic glorp that can be poured onto any problem.
It's a little more complicated than that.
Save 1 crew, save the ship (this was the chosen option)
Lose 1 crew, lose the ship (this is what happened)
Lose 1 crew, save the ship by leaving it in orbit til it can be repaired.
Lose 2 crews, lose two ships. (a high risk with the atlantis plan)
Save both crews, lose no ships. (probably very likely to occur)
a) repair it.
b) carry crew down- leave columbia to be repaired later.
We killed 3500 young americans to protect oil and gasoline prices over the last 10 years.
Not when you are talking about astronauts who signed on knowing death was a high risk and you are risking a multi billion dollar space ship.
Plus, if you let the astronauts die, you CAN recover the columbia when the atlantis is really ready so you are really talking about risky two multi-billion dollar space ships and the entire program.
If I were one of the astronauts I would have said don't you dare try to save me unless it is 99% going to work. I wouldn't have the loss of two ships and the death of the space program on my shoulders.
Sometimes, you have to make hard choices. This was one of those situations.
Because you were cutting corners?
What then?
H1B wasn't good enough for them.
They bring them in on an "L" visa to work here at native company wages for six months in one calendar year and then six months in the next calendar year.
Six to an apartment right next to the client.
Senior analysts making under $30,000 per year.
I hate it when you guys are in this mode.
Overloaded "M"
N OOPPP S
O PPVPP O
R PPDHO U
T VMRWM T
H MVRWM H
--West
H= Hospital, Museum and Park district.
We have no zoning in houston but deed restrictions and politics prevent random rampant reuse of land. You typically see areas shift very slowly to new purposes over a couple decades. Developers TRY to force this (Our "Galleria Area" being an example) but often fail the first couple times before the idea "takes" (The galleria was basically empty and tiny for a looooong time-- today you can't even find parking and it's full to the gills--- so full a lot of people won't go there any more. lol)
In houston you have
PVP
PDM
WRW
P=Poor (Shotgun sheds, lots of minorities)
V=Being redeveloped to a wealthy area from poor or middle class.
M=Museum, Hospital & Park district
W=Wealthy (Upper Middle Class- $500k houses)
R=Obscenely Rich- includes Memorial Park
O=Industrial Parks
M=Middle Class areas
Going out another layer
-- East
N OOPPP S
O PPVPP O
R PPDMO U
T VMRWM T
H MVRWM H
--West
Basically-- for historical reasons and because of a large bayou running through town, the east side was poor for decades and is just now changing.
In a really big ring around all this is a lot of "M" areas (the suburbs).
Houston is bigger across than some states.
Grrr. "They Live".
If you pay attention to MSNBC (supposedly very liberal), you will notice a lot of pro-wealthy comments slid in like the mayo on a sandwich.
The clue is: Who owns the media? Who pays the journalist's salaries?
Pay attention!
It's almost like that old movie "Them" with Roddy Piper.
I thought that was an interesting question!
http://www.publicintegrity.org...
The Center for Public Integrity found compensation for leaders of the 10 largest unions ranged from $173,000 at the United Auto Workers to $618,000 at the Laborersâ(TM) International Union of North America and almost $480,000 for the president of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. The latter is the target of GOP governors in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Kansas.
Wowsers! $618,000 dollars a year!!!
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Productivity improvements via robotics and automation are destroying jobs quickly now--- and the pace is increasing. As you would suspect, these industries do not employ nearly as many people as they replace.
The only solution I can see is to lower the "full time" work week AND to stop abuse of the "exempt" status. Unless a person founded/owns the business or directly manages at least three other people who they make hiring/firing/promotion/salary decisions for- they should not be classified as "exempt" and any work they do over 45 hours a week should qualify for overtime. Any work past 55 hours a week should qualify for double time.
The 40 hour work week and overtime was created to tighten up employment in the first time. Lowering the work week and removing the abuse of the "exempt" status is a logical next step.
Because within 25 year- if you don't, you are looking at a minimum of 20% unemployment- even if you have a degree with good grades.
While a 2d6 roll MIGHT be a "12" or a "2", it would be unwise to bet better than 1:6 odds against a "7".
Randomness has great predictive ability. Many aspects of your life (traffic, life insurance, food safety, politics) are better understood and used in a "random" context.
And while the chair I'm sitting on may vaporize in two seconds- the VERY great probability is that it will remain intact. So I'm going to risk sitting on it.
Good point... and I agree on Bicentennial man.
To be honest- I didn't even remember (and still don't) the other stores in that movie.
But the robot was so well done, it stuck with me. I can still see it in my mind's eye- and I have a *terrible* memory.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in this general area...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/...
It's a well made film with good writing about a robot who achieves enlightenment and how humans react (both positively and negatively) to the fact that a robot has done so.
If a robot can think sufficiently finely, it will be possible for it to think it has a soul and is saved or will be reincarnated or it meets the criteria for whatever other religions out there exist that do not explicitly prohibit members who do not meet certain historical standards.
I think that's at least a hundred years off.
Hopefully robots will not create or join a religion which has a failure of friendliness.
I KNOW!
It was in text when I copied it... here' I'll fix it.
Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He said to the waitress: I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream. The waitress replied: I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?
It looks like the apostrophe's were not normal apostrophe's.
And this being slashdot, they can massively change the interface but are unable to let you edit your posts for even five minutes after you post! LOL.
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Thanks for the complement-- I "don't" post about 4 times to 1 time I do post. I'll write it up and then think- is this really worth posting or did I just need to say it.
I also moderate a lot and focus on moderating up posts that are polite but an unpopular opinion. I don't think we should moderate things down just because we don't agree.
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I previewed it this time! Looks good!
Netflix was one stop shopping.
Now Warner things I will pay the same price for just their movies.
Will amazon Prime box be the same problem with Roku?
Do they really expect me to hook a half dozen boxes to my TV when one box with software apps would do?
Seems like VHS vs Betamax-- and ROKU is pretty well established so It's probably VHS.
Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting at a French café, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He said to the waitress: âoeIâ(TM)d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.â The waitress replied: âoeIâ(TM)m sorry, Monsieur, but weâ(TM)re out of cream. How about with no milk?â
Don't see a lot of talk about the thousands dead in the OVER TEN YEAR long war in the middle east do you?
This is the kind of things the Smothers Brothers said that made the president of the united states call the president of CBS at 3am too tell him to shut them up.
But you can have sex just about anyway you want as long as the partners are of age.
Drugs and religion are fine too.
Just don't bother the powers that be where it really matters to them. If you do that, you'll be unemployed (freedom of speech protects you from the government- not from being fired by your company because it doesn't like what you said- or one of its business partners doesn't like what you said).
Hopefully less fleas too.
On the article- if 5% did manage to survive- then there is your natural selection in action.
Their offspring will probably be more able to survive freezes.
Per the BLS, the quit rate is continuing to rise.
http://www.bls.gov/news.releas...
I'm hoping that employee abuse will be forced to decline as a result.
My last job before I retired, they worked us 70+ hours per week (multiple heart attacks, divorces, etc) with the implied promise we'd pick up SAP skills and have nice jobs after the implementation. Then (as happens with MANY SAP implementations), at the end they laid 95% of us off and upgraded Infosys (who had been "helping") to support the entire project.
I had to work thru it since I was so close to retirement (and they were paying us very well and providing free lunch and dinner while working us in 20 day long "weeks" of 12 hour days ) but my advice is- if Infosys is brought in to "help", start looking for a new job. Many of the people let go have not found work and it's been over a year.
I met a ex co-worker on the plane back from Winter Park last night and she said the conditions are better (40-50 hour weeks for six months now) but Infosys has been a challenge to work with. They are very literal and they never ever say no to anything. They just say they'll "do their best" and you have to understand that means "no, I can't do this." Upper management still plans on this as a "yes." so there have been repeated failures to meet targets.
Get your certs and find a new job if your employer is abusing you. You don't have to take it right now and sometime soon we are going to have another 6-18 month long downturn. The current cycle is 62 months long-- that's historic in length.
One thing to keep in mind is that you may be paying over $10,000 dollars extra for that capacity vs renting a really big long range truck the few times a year you need this ability.
If it turns out you don't need that extra range, then you paid a lot of extra money for nothing.
However, there seems to be a severe disconnect between extra range and price. It should be cheap and a simple matter to have a slightly larger gas tank but that's not the way things work out in practice.
I've seen some people just load 10 to 15 extra gallons of a gas on a tow mounted shelf behind the car but I guess those shelves cost a five hundred to a thousand bucks.
There is only so much beach front property, downtown workspace, premium ski lodge property, 20 minutes at the top of mount everest (currently costs $100,000 plus you have to wait in line with 200 other climbers even at that price-- they should seriously wait at a lower base camp instead of right below the peak- it's killing people the way they do it now. they could wait at a lower camp- then leave for their 20 minutes at the top).
And premium time saving options like the superpass at disney (since most of us are all really just trading hours of our lives for things ultimately).
For normal things tho- I think we are approaching post scarcity and an inability to find work which can't be done cheaper by a machine or program. Even the lowly security guard job is about to take a 95% reduction over the next decade due to a sub $30,000 robot that can work 3 shifts semi-autonomously.