AT&T in particular outsources many of it's jobs to small contracting companies, making sure none of them are more than 10-20 people. Why? They don't pay overtime. They are hourly positions with no time and a half.
Clients almost never pay overtime to any contractor, unless the contract includes requirements like "The Work shall be performed at nights and on weekends to avoid disruption to the Owner's operations." It is the contractor's responsibility to manage their work load vs work force as they need to avoid paying their workers any overtime that might otherwise be required. I suspect AT&T doesn't care whether the workers are paid overtime or not - once the contract went to the lowest bidder all AT&T would care about is that the work got done correctly and on time.
Manure acts on biological pathways we do not understand, and some of the ways it does act are known to be dangerous. Yet it's a fully organic fertilizer.
I don't know about the manure on Monsanto's organic farms, but most manure is full of artificial hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, etc.
RR plants are different in that instead of producing that particular enzyme, they produce a different one that fulfills the same function, which glyphosate does not inhibit. Superweeds don't produce that different enzyme, they produce the typical EPSPS, except they produce enough of it so that when it's inhibited by glyphosate there's still enough to survive. They got that way through selection pressure, not from getting the gene from GM plants.
The GM rice was specifically modified to over-express the enzyme that glyphosate inhibits, and these particular "superweeds" obtained that trait through cross-pollination, at least according to TFA,.
I was going to say it's never OK to not give notice, but then I remembered I once gave two weeks notice on the first day of my boss' vacation. It wasn''t a career type job, though, and the office was in turmoil due to the second-in-command having gotten caught clocking in one of the workers when they were late (she never made it in to work, and got fired for his effort to be nice). It turned out that the boss knew this sort of thing was going on all the time and he was OK with it. He didn't get in serious trouble, himself. He was sort of a creep, too, known for cornering people in the elevator and standing way too close for comfort. So I guess their could be times when it would be alright to quit without notice, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's just common courtesy and good business practice to give notice. This works both ways.
They didn't get that $50B in reserves selling things that don't make money.
True.
Sure they have had failures, but also successes.
True.
Its a stretch to call Windows, Office, and the XBox failures.
It's not that much of a stretch to call XBox a failure - even though it's a success in market share (at least in the US) it hasn't yet paid off in profits.
It is a stretch to call Windows and Office examples of MS entering new markets, though.
From the summary: " But because of its generic symptoms — weight gain, bloating or constipation".
Those aren't generic symptoms on a healthy person.
I don't think you understand what generic means, at least not in this context.
Those are very generic symptoms, and healthy people, by definition, don't have symptoms.
These sorts of slow growing non-threatening cancers [prostate] wouldn't ever produce symptoms
Unless you consider having your sleep interrupted by getting up to urinate a several times a night without being able to produce much urine a symptom. Of course, that may happen before the prostate turns cancerous, but the point is, symptoms do develop over time with prostate cancer, and eventually, if you live long enough, it will probably kill you. There is a difference between a disease having obvious symptoms and it being an immediate threat to your life.
Saved passwords have always been stored in a way that they can be recovered easily.
I know you probably didn't mean it this way, but I quit saving passwords because of my experience with too recoverable passwords in IE: When at work, I tried to access a folder on a client's ftp site. IE kept remembering an old password for a different folder on that ftp site. Even when I clicked the "forget the password" option, IE kept helpfully auto-loading the wrong one, telling me I can't access that folder, and not giving me any apparent way to input the correct password without being overridden by the recovered, incorrect, password. Rebooting didn't help it forget, I couldn't find anything to overcome the memory of that password, and I eventually had to log on to a different computer in order to download the files I needed.
Reminds me of the asinine scare about asbestos insulation, where the form (airborn fibers vs. solid bound masses) and exposure times (years) were completely ignored.
I've only been aware about the asbestos "scare" for about 30 years, but it's always been presented to me as depending on the form and exposure (friable insulation leads to airborne fibers that are dangerous, cementitious materials, not as much; certain mineral types of asbestos are more harmful than others; asbestos workers and miners are much more likely to get sick, etc.).
The crushing heat can reach thirty celcius. In somewhere like the southern US they'd laugh at that
30C (86F) is stifling heat? We laugh at that in the Northern US. True, it would be a little uncomfortable indoors without A/C or at least good ventilation, but you would have to start talking at least 35C or maybe 40C before making US southerners uncomfortable outside. (OK, you'd have to talk 95F to 104F, since they would mostly just look at you funny and wonder what planet you're from if you talk Celsius.)
Which brings up the real issue:
Would you rather have a +/-0.5% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the disease, if you contract it or a tiny but non-zero% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the vaccination?
It's obvious which choice to make if the disease is all around. But if the rest of the world is already vaccinated, then there is no one to spread the disease to you and it could be a perfectly rational choice to not get vaccinated.
Most viruses do carry RNA. But I believe retroviruses carry RNA also, and use reverse transcriptase to make DNA from the RNA, and then use regular transcription to make RNA for the virus. Retroviruses are just about impossible to get rid of if they integrate the DNA they make into the host genome along the way. According to Wikipedia, DNA viruses that first make RNA in the cell and then use reverse transcriptase to make DNA for the virus are called pararetroviruses.
Are you sure? Last time I checked, I can only license it, not buy it like I buy products. Also, if it is a product, how come, from the best I can tell by reading the license, product liability doesn't cover it?
As of Windows 7, Microsoft no longer uses the "flag" as a mark to identify Windows.
That's funny, because I'm sitting here and looking at a Windows 7 "flag" on my Windows 7 start button. (OK, there's no flagpole, but it still looks more like a waving flag than curved windows.)
"The image on a standard television screen is updated 60 times per second"
I'm fairly certain that all US broadcast TV is around 27 FPS and non-HD cable is the same . ..
US broadcast TV is around 30 FPS, but the image on the screen is updated at around 60Hz. The confusion may be that standard TV is interlaced - it only updates every other line each time, therefore a full frame takes 2 cycles. Most HD TV stations/ cable channels also broadcast interlaced, even though most HD TVs are now capable of full 60 Hz progressive.
Children asphyxiating at 400 ppm CO2 is completely unrealistic. It is hyperbole. It is absurd. At 40,000 ppm it might become credible, but 40K ppm is not plausible if we cooked off every potential fossil fuel
It's actually plausible at around 2,000 to 4,000 ppm CO2, more likely at 5,000 to 10,000 ppm, 30,000 ppm will kill you. (5,000 ppm is OSHA's 8-hour TWA limit, some people feel symptoms at lower exposures) It's not the lack of oxygen that would be the issue, it's the body's respiratory/metabolic feedback mechanisms which can't cope with that much CO2. And the Earth has had CO2 levels above 5,000 ppm in the distant past, so it's not completely beyond concern.
Inflation started to get bad in the 70s, and got really bad in the late 70s and early 80s, along with a big recession, not just because of oil shocks and such, but because the Federal Reserve decided to wring the inflation out of the economy by tightening the money supply and raising interest rates. In the short term, this caused a recession while raising inflation, but in the long run, it did dampen inflation and the economy recovered just in time for the republicans to credit Reagan for it.
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Clients almost never pay overtime to any contractor, unless the contract includes requirements like "The Work shall be performed at nights and on weekends to avoid disruption to the Owner's operations." It is the contractor's responsibility to manage their work load vs work force as they need to avoid paying their workers any overtime that might otherwise be required. I suspect AT&T doesn't care whether the workers are paid overtime or not - once the contract went to the lowest bidder all AT&T would care about is that the work got done correctly and on time.
I don't know about the manure on Monsanto's organic farms, but most manure is full of artificial hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, etc.
The GM rice was specifically modified to over-express the enzyme that glyphosate inhibits, and these particular "superweeds" obtained that trait through cross-pollination, at least according to TFA,.
IIRC, dyes are also used to mark actual differences in the fuels: high sulphur vs low sulphur, Avgas, etc.
I was going to say it's never OK to not give notice, but then I remembered I once gave two weeks notice on the first day of my boss' vacation. It wasn''t a career type job, though, and the office was in turmoil due to the second-in-command having gotten caught clocking in one of the workers when they were late (she never made it in to work, and got fired for his effort to be nice). It turned out that the boss knew this sort of thing was going on all the time and he was OK with it. He didn't get in serious trouble, himself. He was sort of a creep, too, known for cornering people in the elevator and standing way too close for comfort. So I guess their could be times when it would be alright to quit without notice, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's just common courtesy and good business practice to give notice. This works both ways.
Leaving and returning usually guarantees that you will be one of the first to be let go in case of a slowdown or restructuring.
True.
True.
It's not that much of a stretch to call XBox a failure - even though it's a success in market share (at least in the US) it hasn't yet paid off in profits.
It is a stretch to call Windows and Office examples of MS entering new markets, though.
I don't think you understand what generic means, at least not in this context.
Those are very generic symptoms, and healthy people, by definition, don't have symptoms.
Unless you consider having your sleep interrupted by getting up to urinate a several times a night without being able to produce much urine a symptom. Of course, that may happen before the prostate turns cancerous, but the point is, symptoms do develop over time with prostate cancer, and eventually, if you live long enough, it will probably kill you. There is a difference between a disease having obvious symptoms and it being an immediate threat to your life.
I know you probably didn't mean it this way, but I quit saving passwords because of my experience with too recoverable passwords in IE:
When at work, I tried to access a folder on a client's ftp site. IE kept remembering an old password for a different folder on that ftp site. Even when I clicked the "forget the password" option, IE kept helpfully auto-loading the wrong one, telling me I can't access that folder, and not giving me any apparent way to input the correct password without being overridden by the recovered, incorrect, password. Rebooting didn't help it forget, I couldn't find anything to overcome the memory of that password, and I eventually had to log on to a different computer in order to download the files I needed.
Not so, XBox has lost wads of cash, overall.
I've only been aware about the asbestos "scare" for about 30 years, but it's always been presented to me as depending on the form and exposure (friable insulation leads to airborne fibers that are dangerous, cementitious materials, not as much; certain mineral types of asbestos are more harmful than others; asbestos workers and miners are much more likely to get sick, etc.).
30C (86F) is stifling heat? We laugh at that in the Northern US. True, it would be a little uncomfortable indoors without A/C or at least good ventilation, but you would have to start talking at least 35C or maybe 40C before making US southerners uncomfortable outside. (OK, you'd have to talk 95F to 104F, since they would mostly just look at you funny and wonder what planet you're from if you talk Celsius.)
The ribbon takes up more space, requires more clicks, and is less customizable.
Which brings up the real issue:
Would you rather have a +/-0.5% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the disease, if you contract it
or a tiny but non-zero% chance of death or serious bodily harm from the vaccination?
It's obvious which choice to make if the disease is all around. But if the rest of the world is already vaccinated, then there is no one to spread the disease to you and it could be a perfectly rational choice to not get vaccinated.
Most viruses do carry RNA. But I believe retroviruses carry RNA also, and use reverse transcriptase to make DNA from the RNA, and then use regular transcription to make RNA for the virus. Retroviruses are just about impossible to get rid of if they integrate the DNA they make into the host genome along the way. According to Wikipedia, DNA viruses that first make RNA in the cell and then use reverse transcriptase to make DNA for the virus are called pararetroviruses.
Only 3 more, and . . . Bacon!
I believe they meant that Windows would be "cannibalized" by MS making and selling devices.
Are you sure? Last time I checked, I can only license it, not buy it like I buy products. Also, if it is a product, how come, from the best I can tell by reading the license, product liability doesn't cover it?
That's funny, because I'm sitting here and looking at a Windows 7 "flag" on my Windows 7 start button. (OK, there's no flagpole, but it still looks more like a waving flag than curved windows.)
US broadcast TV is around 30 FPS, but the image on the screen is updated at around 60Hz. The confusion may be that standard TV is interlaced - it only updates every other line each time, therefore a full frame takes 2 cycles. Most HD TV stations/ cable channels also broadcast interlaced, even though most HD TVs are now capable of full 60 Hz progressive.
It's actually plausible at around 2,000 to 4,000 ppm CO2, more likely at 5,000 to 10,000 ppm, 30,000 ppm will kill you. (5,000 ppm is OSHA's 8-hour TWA limit, some people feel symptoms at lower exposures) It's not the lack of oxygen that would be the issue, it's the body's respiratory/metabolic feedback mechanisms which can't cope with that much CO2. And the Earth has had CO2 levels above 5,000 ppm in the distant past, so it's not completely beyond concern.
Inflation started to get bad in the 70s, and got really bad in the late 70s and early 80s, along with a big recession, not just because of oil shocks and such, but because the Federal Reserve decided to wring the inflation out of the economy by tightening the money supply and raising interest rates. In the short term, this caused a recession while raising inflation, but in the long run, it did dampen inflation and the economy recovered just in time for the republicans to credit Reagan for it.
The 717 is still In service, though.
Stringers? (Haven't seen the pictures)