To be pedantic, the latest glaciation retreated 15,000 years ago.
We're still in an ice age (there's still permanent ice at the poles and on top of some mountains) and if we come out of the ice age, it will be getting significantly hotter than it has been in the last couple of million years or so.
The USPS has an office with hundreds of people, staffed 24/7/365 and all they do is decipher pictures the OCR can't figure out.
The USPS used to have dozens of offices each with hundreds of people, staffed 24/7/365 and all they do is decipher pictures the OCR can't figure out. But improvements in AI lead to improvements in handwriting OCR, so they began laying off people and consolidating offices, and as the automatic systems got better, they eventually laid off most of the people. (I know one that was laid off several years ago.)
I haven't used the latest, but I don't believe any version of Word has actually made features more discoverable. Any UI change will have users saying "Hey, I never knew it could do that" as well as "Where the hell did they put that feature I want to use?"
I've done work for a lot of clients for areas that I would not really consider "highly" sensitive, and yet have had to be fingerprinted at least 4 times: For work at a bank, at a credit card company, at a school system, and at an airport. It might be more sensitive if I were a software engineer working on code, but I'm a mechanical engineer working on the HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, etc.
It's becoming more and more usual to have to provide fingerprints for a background check. The only place that I actually need to put my finger on a fingerprint reader is the airport, though. And half the time it doesn't let me in, resulting in the TSA agent saying "Try again", "Let me clean the sensor", or "Use the other hand".
BTW, the fingerprints taken for the background check are completely separate from the "fingerprints" stored in the access control system for the readers.
The word Hispanic means having to do with Hispania, the Iberian Peninsula. It is/em. often used in the US as a noun for a Spanish-speaking person, but it's not limited to that.
Even discounting health insurance there is taxes, unemployment insurance, health and safety training and other particulars that accrue on a per employee basis, independent of the actual work.
Most of those would seem to be per-hour costs. Training is one that may be per employee, but what company wants to pay for any employee training anymore, anyway?
Then you should consider that you've been lucky in you career choices. In my 38 year career, lunch hour (or lunch 1/2 hour, as at my first job) has never been counted towards hours worked.
French can't even receive work related emails in off-hours.
I just got chastised yesterday for not making sure the client got an e-mail I had sent. My boss e-mailed me after hours about the client not receiving it. I told him I'm not going to get e-mail while I'm on the train, and if he really needs me, he should text or call. I'll do what I have to do to get the job done, but no chance that I'll be checking work e-mails without being on the clock.
I'd love to have those hours
I did once have a job for 8:30 to 4:50, but currently work from a little before 8:00 until around 5:15 - 5:30, depending on what's going on. That does include a mandatory 1 hour lunch break, which I occasionally have to work through, anyway.
Of course, if you're paying the same per week per employee, you'll be paying more for more employees. But otherwise, your math is way off. If you pay the same wage per man-hour, you pay the same wage per day for the same 24 man-hours. Unless you're paying a benefit that's not based on hours (like fully paying for each worker's health insurance), the same goes for most benefits.
But $130K in Houston (where Rice is located) goes a lot further.
Undergraduate Tuition is currently $44,900, so still gonna borrow some.
But if you're making $130K over the years, you should have been able to have some college savings laid away.
Certain sports (those on TV) make money for big universities.
Apart from that, college athletic departments "lose" money the same as other departments.
So, when a private university sets its' own tuition policy, you call it socialism?
What does that have to do with ownership of the means of production?
Not that I agree with Jzanu, but it's obvious they were referring to "Power generation tech to be viable has to have one of two characteristics . .." when they said the opposite is true.
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To be pedantic, the latest glaciation retreated 15,000 years ago.
We're still in an ice age (there's still permanent ice at the poles and on top of some mountains) and if we come out of the ice age, it will be getting significantly hotter than it has been in the last couple of million years or so.
True, it was named Greenland because the original settlers wanted to convince more Vikings to come join them.
"Local" pollution has been significantly reduced within my lifetime, so, yes, we can have both.
The USPS used to have dozens of offices each with hundreds of people, staffed 24/7/365 and all they do is decipher pictures the OCR can't figure out. But improvements in AI lead to improvements in handwriting OCR, so they began laying off people and consolidating offices, and as the automatic systems got better, they eventually laid off most of the people. (I know one that was laid off several years ago.)
I haven't used the latest, but I don't believe any version of Word has actually made features more discoverable. Any UI change will have users saying "Hey, I never knew it could do that" as well as "Where the hell did they put that feature I want to use?"
Which was probably the best version of Office.
I've done work for a lot of clients for areas that I would not really consider "highly" sensitive, and yet have had to be fingerprinted at least 4 times: For work at a bank, at a credit card company, at a school system, and at an airport. It might be more sensitive if I were a software engineer working on code, but I'm a mechanical engineer working on the HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, etc.
It's becoming more and more usual to have to provide fingerprints for a background check. The only place that I actually need to put my finger on a fingerprint reader is the airport, though. And half the time it doesn't let me in, resulting in the TSA agent saying "Try again", "Let me clean the sensor", or "Use the other hand".
BTW, the fingerprints taken for the background check are completely separate from the "fingerprints" stored in the access control system for the readers.
The word Hispanic means having to do with Hispania, the Iberian Peninsula. It is/em. often used in the US as a noun for a Spanish-speaking person, but it's not limited to that.
Mickey mouse films, songs, books, comics, etc. are protected by copyright. Mickey Mouse the name and the "ears" logo are protected by trademark.
GP said "retroactive", not "limited time".
Unless you're an heir to a copyright.
Most of those would seem to be per-hour costs. Training is one that may be per employee, but what company wants to pay for any employee training anymore, anyway?
Then you should consider that you've been lucky in you career choices. In my 38 year career, lunch hour (or lunch 1/2 hour, as at my first job) has never been counted towards hours worked.
I do take my work responsibility seriously. That's why I won't check work e-mails while I'm not working.
I just got chastised yesterday for not making sure the client got an e-mail I had sent. My boss e-mailed me after hours about the client not receiving it. I told him I'm not going to get e-mail while I'm on the train, and if he really needs me, he should text or call. I'll do what I have to do to get the job done, but no chance that I'll be checking work e-mails without being on the clock.
Me. As long as they still pay my insurance.
I'd love to have those hours
I did once have a job for 8:30 to 4:50, but currently work from a little before 8:00 until around 5:15 - 5:30, depending on what's going on. That does include a mandatory 1 hour lunch break, which I occasionally have to work through, anyway.
No, I need my time to walk around the park at lunch. Sitting all day is what makes me sucky.
Of course, if you're paying the same per week per employee, you'll be paying more for more employees. But otherwise, your math is way off. If you pay the same wage per man-hour, you pay the same wage per day for the same 24 man-hours. Unless you're paying a benefit that's not based on hours (like fully paying for each worker's health insurance), the same goes for most benefits.
But $130K in Houston (where Rice is located) goes a lot further. Undergraduate Tuition is currently $44,900, so still gonna borrow some. But if you're making $130K over the years, you should have been able to have some college savings laid away.
Certain sports (those on TV) make money for big universities.
Apart from that, college athletic departments "lose" money the same as other departments.
So, when a private university sets its' own tuition policy, you call it socialism?
What does that have to do with ownership of the means of production?
Windscale does not refer to wind mills.
Not that I agree with Jzanu, but it's obvious they were referring to "Power generation tech to be viable has to have one of two characteristics . . ." when they said the opposite is true.
Yucca Mountain is in Nevada, not Utah.