Bullshit.
e.g., my grandfather was a Lutheran minister who believed that the bible was absolutely true, but even he didn't believe in a young earth (possibly because he knew the Hebrew that is commonly translated as "on the first day, . . on the second day, . ..etc. is a bad translation.) He would have been fine with the big bang theory. Evolution would've taken more work, he might have been one of those that believed in evolution generally, but not in the origins of species or the descent of man.
I think most of them are attracted to a life of celibacy because they're ashamed of their pedophile tendencies and believe that with faith and service to god they can resist temptation, or even train themselves to no longer be tempted. Unfortunately, that does not often work.
And how many top secret and classified documents can be sent to people with no security clearance before it is considered a felony? She may have not have forwarded thousands but the number was not zero either.
Actually, the number was zero. The only "classified" materials found on Huma Abedin's computer were not classified at the time, but were re-classified after the fact. And, they were not sent to Abedin's computer by Cinton, they were sent by Abedin.
If you spend money to air a commercial should you be able to say anything political you want?
Should Congress be unable to regulate your corporation's spending on political advertising, even while you are enjoying the privilege of limited liability that Congress gives in order to encourage investment in productive businesses? Should congress not be able to end your limited liability when they see a problem with corporations gaining too much power over The People by spending on behalf of politicians friendly to their business?
There's scarcely a machine on the planet that doesn't rely on rubber gaskets to continue functioning . . .
"Rubber" in this context generally means any of dozens of polymers. Almost no machines use natural rubber, vulcanized or not. Still, a plague destroying some of the more popular rubber substitutes, like neoprene, could be devastating.
I did the mechanical design for the Sears store in that mall. I remember they had an issue with mold growing on the north wall exterior around the time they opened. As well as some issues with Hurricane Andrew shortly before they were due to open and with water dripping from the ductwork after that..
Most states have some protection around advertising yourself as a "Professional Engineer" (PE) or similar term that implies you are licensed by the state to provide engineering services to the public. Only a few states apply this sort of orthodoxy to the general term "engineer", and the enforcement tends to be pretty lax.
It varies state-to-state, but in my state, I'm perfectly in my rights to call myself an engineer, since I work as an engineer for an engineering company under the 'direct supervision'* of a licensed Professional Engineer. I would be in trouble, however, if I was on my own and called myself an engineer, since I am not licensed.
*Apparently, working under the direct supervision of a licensed engineer includes the PE following my advice and taking directions from the also-not-licensed owner of the company. (The owner used to be an engineer in the Soviet Union and the PE is a good guy, but only has a few years of experience and is far less knowledgeable about the field than others in the company.)
Same here, if you count a 2-week "course" in High School in 1970. Dropped the punch cards for my first trivial program, too, and had to re-sort them by hand.
The question isn't whether these are cheaper to run than having people walking around the warehouse floor putting packages in the right chute. That's a given in all but the most wage-depressed places.
The question is whether this is cheaper to operate than a conventional automated conveyor system.
I'm not sure how/why income would dip by that much if you're working a regular job.
For starters, a regular Mon-Fri job has as few as 20 and as many as 23 work days in a month, with an average of about 21.7 days per month. So February would represent almost an 8% dip, even with nothing else going on.
Then, if you get paid time-and-a-half for overtime, average 5 hours OT a week, but overtime varies from 0 hours to 10 hours per week, a month without overtime would be a 15% dip from average.
Then, especially for lower paying jobs, there's unpaid time off, varying work schedules, etc.
Still hard to see that happening 5 months a year
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They don't really have a minimum pricing, at least not that I'm aware of.
The maximum price is regulated, and all the taxis charge the maximum, because charging less would not be an advantage: When you're hailing a cab on the street, it would be pretty hard to know which cab had the lower price (and it might be the only cab around, anyway).
Now that even the taxi companies are starting to use phone hailing apps, maybe they could get rid of the maximum pricing regulations.
YMMV
A standard Jet can take as much as an hour to refuel. It takes time to put several tens of thousands of gallons into something, and generally, refueling is not done during boarding, because it represents a theoretically higher risk.
Then how does Southwest airlines achieve a turnaround time of under 30 minutes?
I would consider the US to be progressive in the sense that I would face workplace discrimination there for being white and male (under Affirmative Action), which is one reason I prefer to remain in Europe.
As a white, male worker in the US, I call bullshit. I hate to admit it, but in many, possibly most, cases, being white and male provides an advantage in the workplace, even accounting for Affirmative Action initiatives.
And worker's compensation generally pays less than you would get in court, but prevents you from suing. (note that there may be big variations by state.)
There is nowhere in the U.S. where employers are not required to be fully insured for such accidents.
No.
Employers are required to have worker's compensation insurance. Worker's compensation includes a list of injuries and what compensation will be paid for them. The employer's liability is limited to what worker' compensation insurance pays, unless you can prove criminal negligence or the like in court, which is unlikely.
On the other hand, your personal health insurance, whether bought by you or provided by your company, might cover hospital bills - or they might not, depending on what they are required by law to cover (nothing if the repeal & don't replace crowd get their way). Usually they start off denying coverage and force you to complain before reluctantly paying some of the bills.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
Rather than holding on to that surplus (or even taking some of that surplus and converting it to interest-earning instruments) it was earmarked as funding for other projects and policies.
That's just not true.
In the 80s, SS income and distributions were adjusted, and the surplus was invested for the day (now) when retirees would become more numerous. Except for minor adjustments needed because of retirees' expected lifes being a little longer than expected, Social Security, per se, is solvent. The real problem is that congress required SS to invest in US Treasury bonds only, so that while SS has the money on the books, we, the people (a.k.a. the US government) will have to pay SS back, and we are broke.
1. Visual previews of tabs in Microsoft Edge. - I'd like to avoid this.
2. Edge now has built-in support for ebooks. - not intersested
3. Microsoft Paint now lets people create models in 3D. - wouldn't ever use
4. Picture-in-Picture mode for videos. Essentially you can now have a small window with video playing on it placed on top of any other application. - might be OK if I used my laptop to watch TV, which I don''t
5. Night Light: A baked in feature in Windows that will allow you to change the color and tone of display so that it doesn't pain your eyes to look at the screen at night. - ho-hum
6. Dynamic Lock: The feature first requires you to pair your phone or tablet with the computer. Once done, it will automatically log you out everytime you're away from desk (or technically speaking, the device is out of the computer's proximity). - sounds like something I'd like to avoid, but I'm not sure
7. Native support for surround sound. - Might be useful if I used my laptop to listen to music, which I don't
8. Ability to scribble and make notes on Microsoft's Maps app. - Might be useful if I ever used Micrsoft's maps, which I don't
9. Game mode: It "ensures" your computer is always maximizing its resources for an optimal gaming experience. - completely uninterested
10. Built-in support for mixed reality handsets. - I would never use this
So I guess I'm sticking to Windows 7 on my laptop (not that I could change it anyway, since my work dictates what's on my laptop.)
You are generally correct. But, in addition, Sears at it's heyday was a conglomerate with a number of successful businesses held: insurance, real estate, banking, credit cards, etc. Then, to please shareholders, they started selling or spinning off those businesses one by one, in order to concentrate on their core competencies. If you owned Sears stock in the late 80s, you ended up with valuable stock in those spin-off companies that way. In the meantime, they could never decide what their core competency was, one year trying to compete against Macy's, Marshall Fields, and Niemann Marcus, the next year trying to out-cheap Kmart; then switching between thinking their strong point is hardware and appliances and deciding, no, the money was in the fashion goods. Lather, rinse, repeat, over and over, getting a worse reputation each time. After a while they got bought by the owner of Kmart out for the value of their real estate holdings (Before the 80s, most of their stores were owned by them, after that, they mainly opened leased stores attached to malls)
If an airport employee can sneak in a laptop, they can sneak in anything up to the allowed carry-on size.
If airport employees are not effectively screened in the process of getting their credentials, then all bets are off, as they could sneak in anything, and with much less chance of being caught than passengers carrying an i-pad packed with explosives would have. For example, think of what catering companies could hide in those delicious 'meals' before loading them onto the plane. And if you're in maintenance or construction, you're necessarily going to have a lot of tools that would be banned for carry-on. The several times I've driven in to the hangar area of a major airport, although the signs say that all vehicles are subject to search, it has never been searched. (I doubt that a search would be all that effective, either.)
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Nice strawmen you got there.
Bullshit. .etc. is a bad translation.) He would have been fine with the big bang theory. Evolution would've taken more work, he might have been one of those that believed in evolution generally, but not in the origins of species or the descent of man.
e.g., my grandfather was a Lutheran minister who believed that the bible was absolutely true, but even he didn't believe in a young earth (possibly because he knew the Hebrew that is commonly translated as "on the first day, . . on the second day, . .
I think most of them are attracted to a life of celibacy because they're ashamed of their pedophile tendencies and believe that with faith and service to god they can resist temptation, or even train themselves to no longer be tempted. Unfortunately, that does not often work.
Actually, the number was zero. The only "classified" materials found on Huma Abedin's computer were not classified at the time, but were re-classified after the fact. And, they were not sent to Abedin's computer by Cinton, they were sent by Abedin.
Should Congress be unable to regulate your corporation's spending on political advertising, even while you are enjoying the privilege of limited liability that Congress gives in order to encourage investment in productive businesses? Should congress not be able to end your limited liability when they see a problem with corporations gaining too much power over The People by spending on behalf of politicians friendly to their business?
"Rubber" in this context generally means any of dozens of polymers. Almost no machines use natural rubber, vulcanized or not.
Still, a plague destroying some of the more popular rubber substitutes, like neoprene, could be devastating.
I did the mechanical design for the Sears store in that mall. I remember they had an issue with mold growing on the north wall exterior around the time they opened. As well as some issues with Hurricane Andrew shortly before they were due to open and with water dripping from the ductwork after that..
It varies state-to-state, but in my state, I'm perfectly in my rights to call myself an engineer, since I work as an engineer for an engineering company under the 'direct supervision'* of a licensed Professional Engineer. I would be in trouble, however, if I was on my own and called myself an engineer, since I am not licensed.
*Apparently, working under the direct supervision of a licensed engineer includes the PE following my advice and taking directions from the also-not-licensed owner of the company. (The owner used to be an engineer in the Soviet Union and the PE is a good guy, but only has a few years of experience and is far less knowledgeable about the field than others in the company.)
Same here, if you count a 2-week "course" in High School in 1970. Dropped the punch cards for my first trivial program, too, and had to re-sort them by hand.
Actually, whether you agree or not with the argument, CanadianMacFan did state a technical objection, not a personal one.
And they specifically excluded the self-employed.
The question isn't whether these are cheaper to run than having people walking around the warehouse floor putting packages in the right chute. That's a given in all but the most wage-depressed places.
The question is whether this is cheaper to operate than a conventional automated conveyor system.
For starters, a regular Mon-Fri job has as few as 20 and as many as 23 work days in a month, with an average of about 21.7 days per month. So February would represent almost an 8% dip, even with nothing else going on.
Then, if you get paid time-and-a-half for overtime, average 5 hours OT a week, but overtime varies from 0 hours to 10 hours per week, a month without overtime would be a 15% dip from average.
Then, especially for lower paying jobs, there's unpaid time off, varying work schedules, etc.
Still hard to see that happening 5 months a year .
They don't really have a minimum pricing, at least not that I'm aware of.
The maximum price is regulated, and all the taxis charge the maximum, because charging less would not be an advantage: When you're hailing a cab on the street, it would be pretty hard to know which cab had the lower price (and it might be the only cab around, anyway).
Now that even the taxi companies are starting to use phone hailing apps, maybe they could get rid of the maximum pricing regulations.
YMMV
When your ideology is that everything public sector is evil.
Then how does Southwest airlines achieve a turnaround time of under 30 minutes?
As a white, male worker in the US, I call bullshit. I hate to admit it, but in many, possibly most, cases, being white and male provides an advantage in the workplace, even accounting for Affirmative Action initiatives.
And worker's compensation generally pays less than you would get in court, but prevents you from suing. (note that there may be big variations by state.)
No.
Employers are required to have worker's compensation insurance. Worker's compensation includes a list of injuries and what compensation will be paid for them. The employer's liability is limited to what worker' compensation insurance pays, unless you can prove criminal negligence or the like in court, which is unlikely.
On the other hand, your personal health insurance, whether bought by you or provided by your company, might cover hospital bills - or they might not, depending on what they are required by law to cover (nothing if the repeal & don't replace crowd get their way). Usually they start off denying coverage and force you to complain before reluctantly paying some of the bills.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
That is incorrect.
That's just not true.
In the 80s, SS income and distributions were adjusted, and the surplus was invested for the day (now) when retirees would become more numerous. Except for minor adjustments needed because of retirees' expected lifes being a little longer than expected, Social Security, per se, is solvent. The real problem is that congress required SS to invest in US Treasury bonds only, so that while SS has the money on the books, we, the people (a.k.a. the US government) will have to pay SS back, and we are broke.
1. Visual previews of tabs in Microsoft Edge. - I'd like to avoid this.
2. Edge now has built-in support for ebooks. - not intersested
3. Microsoft Paint now lets people create models in 3D. - wouldn't ever use
4. Picture-in-Picture mode for videos. Essentially you can now have a small window with video playing on it placed on top of any other application. - might be OK if I used my laptop to watch TV, which I don''t
5. Night Light: A baked in feature in Windows that will allow you to change the color and tone of display so that it doesn't pain your eyes to look at the screen at night. - ho-hum
6. Dynamic Lock: The feature first requires you to pair your phone or tablet with the computer. Once done, it will automatically log you out everytime you're away from desk (or technically speaking, the device is out of the computer's proximity). - sounds like something I'd like to avoid, but I'm not sure
7. Native support for surround sound. - Might be useful if I used my laptop to listen to music, which I don't
8. Ability to scribble and make notes on Microsoft's Maps app. - Might be useful if I ever used Micrsoft's maps, which I don't
9. Game mode: It "ensures" your computer is always maximizing its resources for an optimal gaming experience. - completely uninterested
10. Built-in support for mixed reality handsets. - I would never use this
So I guess I'm sticking to Windows 7 on my laptop (not that I could change it anyway, since my work dictates what's on my laptop.)
You are generally correct. But, in addition, Sears at it's heyday was a conglomerate with a number of successful businesses held: insurance, real estate, banking, credit cards, etc. Then, to please shareholders, they started selling or spinning off those businesses one by one, in order to concentrate on their core competencies. If you owned Sears stock in the late 80s, you ended up with valuable stock in those spin-off companies that way. In the meantime, they could never decide what their core competency was, one year trying to compete against Macy's, Marshall Fields, and Niemann Marcus, the next year trying to out-cheap Kmart; then switching between thinking their strong point is hardware and appliances and deciding, no, the money was in the fashion goods. Lather, rinse, repeat, over and over, getting a worse reputation each time. After a while they got bought by the owner of Kmart out for the value of their real estate holdings (Before the 80s, most of their stores were owned by them, after that, they mainly opened leased stores attached to malls)
If airport employees are not effectively screened in the process of getting their credentials, then all bets are off, as they could sneak in anything, and with much less chance of being caught than passengers carrying an i-pad packed with explosives would have. For example, think of what catering companies could hide in those delicious 'meals' before loading them onto the plane. And if you're in maintenance or construction, you're necessarily going to have a lot of tools that would be banned for carry-on. The several times I've driven in to the hangar area of a major airport, although the signs say that all vehicles are subject to search, it has never been searched. (I doubt that a search would be all that effective, either.)
As an engineer, I would love to believe that.
But as a person with eyes and ears, I know that is incorrect.