If divers got in there, surely they can get some more divers in there with some more equipment, and then tow the kids out of there in spite of their lack of swimming ability?
You mean getting kids that can't swim to use SCUBA gear for their first time and not panic while navigating through an underwater maze of twisty little passages, all alike for over a mile, underwater, in the dark, for 5+ hours? I'm a 55-year-old super experienced swimmer and that might freak me out a little. While I'm confident that I could keep it together, I wouldn't be so sure about my 11-year-old niece.
Set up a VLAN for your WiFi device (and those connected through it) and block that at your main router. Or assign the device a static IP and block that -- or assign it an static IP that won't route off the LAN.
Which means New York? That's about the only US city that qualifies. Taking 3 buses and spending 2.5 hours to get across town doesn't.
I've visited Boston several times and the T (subway) is pretty good for getting around town. I also liked the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, OR for in and around town (when I was there in 1999)...
Indeed, because China Mobile is an arm of the Chinese state, there are legitimate concerns that Beijing could use it to gather data on American citizens.
That's not a solution. That's a work-around to design that does not bother to take even the slightest consideration of actual usage. Of course you can fix it. I can take the damn power supplies apart and internally connect longer wires and re-encase the transformers if I wanted to. I don't want to. I want to buy a power connector that takes these things into proper consideration. I shouldn't have to work around it. Somewhere, there was somebody actually "PAID" to "DESIGN" this crap. Don't you think they should be held accountable for their incompetence?
Yup and nice anecdote. In truth, there are a variety of reasons companies "green the workforce". Some are simply monetary - younger employees are often (much) less expensive in salary and benefits costs and the company simply doesn't care about them having less experience. Some are cultural. While I don't condone either, I take more offense at the latter.
Here's the thing, if older folks are so valuable why do we need laws against age discrimination? Wouldn't the free market shake things out when a company that hires these more experienced laborers out competes the one that fired them?
Not really. Younger people get hired for a variety of positions, including management, and they often (a) have the cultural perception that older people are worse than younger ones and (b) want to hire people like themselves. The laws are there to prevent discrimination based simply on perceptions of age.
Reality is that if I'm running a business I need 1 experienced old guy to manage 10-20 young engineers.
That's fine. But if you simply get rid of an older, more expensive, employee and re-fill that position with a younger, less expensive, one then that's age discrimination - and this actually happens.
The reason we ban age discrimination is the same reason we have (had?) a 40 hour work week, unemployment insurance and minimum wage. They're regulations used to artificially raise wages because in their absence wages collapse.
I'd rather work at a place where my performance matters, not bullshit superficial appearances.
Neither of those actually matter. It's only the company that matters and it will get rid of you in a second if it makes the next minute better for them. The line about "employees being our most valuable asset" is *complete* bullshit and if you hear it, or any other rah-rah slogans being bantered about by Management, start looking for job elsewhere. Just my $0.02 earned over my 30+ years of experience...
We do know that boomers are - with exceptions obviously - entitled jackasses who expect the world to revolve around them, refuse to learn new technologies, and who complain endlessly about everyone else being the problem.
Perhaps, although I'm a 55 year old senior software engineer and senior systems administrator and (a) am not like that and (b) do not know *any* Baby Boomers like that at work. I will offer that I've known several Millennials in the work force that could be described as above, though it really seems to apply more to Generation Z...
Overall, generic labels like that above aren't necessarily helpful. There's a wide range of (in short) productive and useless people in every generation.
Someone at IBM is very, very stupid for having fired that dude, if data he used as evidence can be confirmed.
Most people can get fired/laid-off for any reason, the best (for the company) being "no reason", at any time - especially if you're in a Right to Work state. If his performance bonus was tied to his salary, that could have made him even more expensive to retain than others. The company could simply say that they're happy with less. The disparity between his apparently high bonus and low performance score in Jan 2017 might have to do with a discrepancy between his sales numbers and his personality... He will have to prove that IBM got rid of him specifically because of his age, which will be difficult for him unless someone at IBM was dumb enough to put it in writing somewhere or said it in front of a few, still happily employed, people who will be willing to testify to that.
That HR marked him "resigned/retired" was probably because he was eligible for retirement and he didn't say anything otherwise (even if he had thought to) and he was categorized by default so he would start getting his retirement pay.
Cinemark,... began offering this subscription in December. It's very basic: for $9 a month members can see one movie a month (no 3-D) and receive a 20 percent discount on concessions, among other perks.
So, you're basically pre-paying one movie a month (Regal and AMC charge about $9/movie in my area for a matinee) and getting a discount off the retail price of their vastly over-priced food (which, many people don't buy anyway). Wow.
... the ruling "stands as an invitation to spread falsehoods on the internet without consequence."
... has already been accepted by many. One person comes immediately to mind -- and it would a shock if he ever said something true and/or suffered consequences for lying or, to be kind, misrepresenting things. Time will tell.
We have birth records online, why don't you?
I guess the lack of a highly centralized government makes it hard to coordinate anything.
I imagine new(er) birth records are also online, but that tracking down and entering old(er) records (like from 1916) is difficult and cost/time prohibitive to do en-mass.
Oh PLEASE let Donald, Vlad, Kim, and all the other assholes die well before the cure for aging is rolled out.
Can you Imagine having those monsters around for all eternity?
Not to mention Dick Cheney. He's had 5 heart attacks, a coronary artery bypass, coronary artery stenting, coronary balloon angioplasty, had a cardioverter-defibrillator implanted, had an endo-vascular procedure to repair popliteal artery aneurysms, was outfitted with a left-ventricular assist device, and had a heart transplant.
Cheney's been one heartbeat away from no heartbeat since 1978.
I wonder if it has something to do with relying on birth certificates. It could be that those around 100-110 years old who have a birth certificate are -for whatever reason - skewing the results.
I imagine everyone in that age range has (or had) a birth certificate. Finding and verifying them is the difficult thing. For example, my wife's father was born in 1916. When he died in 2005 (age 89, near Watertown, NY) we needed an official copy of his birth certificate. The original (paper) birth certificate was in the basement of a church in Waynesville, NC, which was the town where he was born. Who knows how difficult it might be to find reliable birth records for older people in Europe born before the two world wars...
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But if MoviePass wants to survive, it also needs to start losing less money on its subscribers, and fast.
Seems like losing money on its subscribers was its business plan. Either that, or they didn't think things through.
More MHz Better!!!
Joke's on you; they're talking about GHz.
If divers got in there, surely they can get some more divers in there with some more equipment, and then tow the kids out of there in spite of their lack of swimming ability?
You mean getting kids that can't swim to use SCUBA gear for their first time and not panic while navigating through an underwater maze of twisty little passages, all alike for over a mile, underwater, in the dark, for 5+ hours? I'm a 55-year-old super experienced swimmer and that might freak me out a little. While I'm confident that I could keep it together, I wouldn't be so sure about my 11-year-old niece.
Can you give it a WiFi network with no Internet?
Set up a VLAN for your WiFi device (and those connected through it) and block that at your main router. Or assign the device a static IP and block that -- or assign it an static IP that won't route off the LAN.
Which means New York? That's about the only US city that qualifies. Taking 3 buses and spending 2.5 hours to get across town doesn't.
I've visited Boston several times and the T (subway) is pretty good for getting around town. I also liked the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, OR for in and around town (when I was there in 1999) ...
Indeed, because China Mobile is an arm of the Chinese state, there are legitimate concerns that Beijing could use it to gather data on American citizens.
That's the NSA's job.
I wonder if they'll make me watch -- I... mean... -- if I'll get to watch ST Discovery?
That's not a solution. That's a work-around to design that does not bother to take even the slightest consideration of actual usage. Of course you can fix it. I can take the damn power supplies apart and internally connect longer wires and re-encase the transformers if I wanted to. I don't want to. I want to buy a power connector that takes these things into proper consideration. I shouldn't have to work around it. Somewhere, there was somebody actually "PAID" to "DESIGN" this crap. Don't you think they should be held accountable for their incompetence?
Whoa. No more coffee for you today.
Yup and nice anecdote. In truth, there are a variety of reasons companies "green the workforce". Some are simply monetary - younger employees are often (much) less expensive in salary and benefits costs and the company simply doesn't care about them having less experience. Some are cultural. While I don't condone either, I take more offense at the latter.
I think Plug-Spreading is when the base of the butt-plug is so wide, you can't plug anything else into the adjacent outlet - so to speak.
(Not sure why Mark Serrels is writing about his love-life problems on CNET ...)
OMG! Too bad there's *no* way to solve this problem.
[ Sigh... (a) Why is this a story and (b) Why is this a story on /. ? ]
Here's the thing, if older folks are so valuable why do we need laws against age discrimination? Wouldn't the free market shake things out when a company that hires these more experienced laborers out competes the one that fired them?
Not really. Younger people get hired for a variety of positions, including management, and they often (a) have the cultural perception that older people are worse than younger ones and (b) want to hire people like themselves. The laws are there to prevent discrimination based simply on perceptions of age.
Reality is that if I'm running a business I need 1 experienced old guy to manage 10-20 young engineers.
That's fine. But if you simply get rid of an older, more expensive, employee and re-fill that position with a younger, less expensive, one then that's age discrimination - and this actually happens.
The reason we ban age discrimination is the same reason we have (had?) a 40 hour work week, unemployment insurance and minimum wage. They're regulations used to artificially raise wages because in their absence wages collapse.
That's incoherent and simply wrong.
I'd rather work at a place where my performance matters, not bullshit superficial appearances.
Neither of those actually matter. It's only the company that matters and it will get rid of you in a second if it makes the next minute better for them. The line about "employees being our most valuable asset" is *complete* bullshit and if you hear it, or any other rah-rah slogans being bantered about by Management, start looking for job elsewhere. Just my $0.02 earned over my 30+ years of experience ...
We do know that boomers are - with exceptions obviously - entitled jackasses who expect the world to revolve around them, refuse to learn new technologies, and who complain endlessly about everyone else being the problem.
Perhaps, although I'm a 55 year old senior software engineer and senior systems administrator and (a) am not like that and (b) do not know *any* Baby Boomers like that at work. I will offer that I've known several Millennials in the work force that could be described as above, though it really seems to apply more to Generation Z ...
Overall, generic labels like that above aren't necessarily helpful. There's a wide range of (in short) productive and useless people in every generation.
Someone at IBM is very, very stupid for having fired that dude, if data he used as evidence can be confirmed.
Most people can get fired/laid-off for any reason, the best (for the company) being "no reason", at any time - especially if you're in a Right to Work state. If his performance bonus was tied to his salary, that could have made him even more expensive to retain than others. The company could simply say that they're happy with less. The disparity between his apparently high bonus and low performance score in Jan 2017 might have to do with a discrepancy between his sales numbers and his personality... He will have to prove that IBM got rid of him specifically because of his age, which will be difficult for him unless someone at IBM was dumb enough to put it in writing somewhere or said it in front of a few, still happily employed, people who will be willing to testify to that.
That HR marked him "resigned/retired" was probably because he was eligible for retirement and he didn't say anything otherwise (even if he had thought to) and he was categorized by default so he would start getting his retirement pay.
Cinemark, ... began offering this subscription in December. It's very basic: for $9 a month members can see one movie a month (no 3-D) and receive a 20 percent discount on concessions, among other perks.
So, you're basically pre-paying one movie a month (Regal and AMC charge about $9/movie in my area for a matinee) and getting a discount off the retail price of their vastly over-priced food (which, many people don't buy anyway). Wow.
... optionally display DMV-approved customized messages in a small font below the plate number itself.
"Sucker on board."
A followup question is: How many wang pics were sent out because of this?
Almost as many as chung photos.
... the ruling "stands as an invitation to spread falsehoods on the internet without consequence."
... but Amazon is a disaster for a company that isn't fully fault tolerant and has critical servers that can't go down.
If your company has "critical servers that can't go down" (wherever they are) and you're not fully fault-tolerant, you're the disaster, not Amazon.
Not here to pick a fight, just sayin'. (one finger pointing at someone else is also three fingers pointing at yourself)
We have birth records online, why don't you?
I guess the lack of a highly centralized government makes it hard to coordinate anything.
I imagine new(er) birth records are also online, but that tracking down and entering old(er) records (like from 1916) is difficult and cost/time prohibitive to do en-mass.
Oh PLEASE let Donald, Vlad, Kim, and all the other assholes die well before the cure for aging is rolled out.
Can you Imagine having those monsters around for all eternity?
Not to mention Dick Cheney. He's had 5 heart attacks, a coronary artery bypass, coronary artery stenting, coronary balloon angioplasty, had a cardioverter-defibrillator implanted, had an endo-vascular procedure to repair popliteal artery aneurysms, was outfitted with a left-ventricular assist device, and had a heart transplant.
Cheney's been one heartbeat away from no heartbeat since 1978.
I wonder if it has something to do with relying on birth certificates. It could be that those around 100-110 years old who have a birth certificate are -for whatever reason - skewing the results.
I imagine everyone in that age range has (or had) a birth certificate. Finding and verifying them is the difficult thing. For example, my wife's father was born in 1916. When he died in 2005 (age 89, near Watertown, NY) we needed an official copy of his birth certificate. The original (paper) birth certificate was in the basement of a church in Waynesville, NC, which was the town where he was born. Who knows how difficult it might be to find reliable birth records for older people in Europe born before the two world wars...
Put the companies executives in a dome that is over their production facilities. /s
I'm sure they'll figure it out quickly.
Get our Blowhard in Chief to stop bloviating. That'll cool a lot of things off.
One does not simply refuse the Donald.
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