After they find your DNA sample at a liquor store following a robbery, for example, they would be forced to release you,
Nope. You get stuck in jail, because you're guilty, and you're easy to convict. The DNA proves it.
At the best, they're forced to pay you off,
You might want to know that not all US states have laws about the compensation of people who have been imprisoned mistakenly. So, even on the chance that you do get released from prison, there might not be a big cash prize waiting for you outside, just the shattered remains of what your life was. Have fun picking up the pieces.
Considering how you don't even enjoy First Amendment protections in Europe then it is particularly sad.
Huh ? Well, of course we don't enjoy first amendment protections, considering that the constitution of the US doesn't apply here. However, similar terms can be found in the constitutions/equivalents thereof of many European countries ("Europe" isn't a country).
If you want to draw a line down the middle and say "only your side of the house is on fire" then by all means have at it.
It's not just that your side of the house is on fire, you're also making everyone else pour gas on their side.
Do you think my country can do anything about the ever-increasing loads of crap that I get shoved down my throat everytime I enter the US ? I'm still putting up with it because of family over there, but once they revoke the visa waiver program ("security experts" are in favor of this measure, or so I've heard), I'm going to call it quits.
My wife doesn't get fingerprinted or otherwise harassed when we return from the US.
Do they take it multiple times because they delete it after the traveller's visa has expired (90 days)?
Of course not ! If they did, they cannot prevent the evil terrorists from entering the US under false identities. The information is basically kept forever (decades), to be able to check your fingerprints against the ones taken from you when you entered earlier.
It appears that something "else" is required to kickstart plate tectonics. The only really major thing we can identify, that fits the models, is our moon.
Hm. Is it too late already, or can we still find a suitable piece of space rock to hit Venus with, within the next couple of hundred years ?
A typical response may be "I found this great job over at XYZ Inc., and the pay is better, benefits are great, good work hours...etc."
Welcome to a free market economy (the job market) with informed customers. If the above is causing problems for a company, then maybe the company has a problem with paying the market price its labor needs and needs to review its wage/salary system instead of making a futile attempt at keeping its employees dumb.
Funny how everyone likes a free market until that means paying the actual market price for a certain item.
But once someone says "I'm leaving in two weeks", I cannot expect them to put 100% into their work
Why not ? The ones who will slack off before leaving would be dumb if they told you about it.
and I certainly don't want them hanging around telling all my customers and employees about their great new job.
In that case, you better hire a good hit man instead. Or how else do you want to keep them from talking to their colleagues outside of work ? Maybe they have their cellphone numbers, maybe they're even friends, maybe they even go out for a drink after work. Heck. Maybe they'll even us the internet in one form or another.
Also, see above. The ones who do want really want to badmouth your company would be dumb if they gave any notice. They'll do what they want to do and then quit without notice.
These differences, incidentally, are probably also the reason that Germany has an unemployment rate of ~11.7%, compared to the US rate of ~5.1%
So... how many additional States that were ravaged by ~40 years of real socialism (not to be confused with what is usually considered socialism in the USA) did join the US in the last 20 years, and how does this compare to Germany ?
Frankly, if someone gives notice, you want them gone as soon as is possible. They've cut the relationship, and your work is no longer their top priority.
So, just because you don't have any work ethics, no one else should have any ?
What about temps ? Do you want them gone asap after hiring because they may be looking for their next job already ?
Sure, in America you can sue anyone for anything, but bringing a frivolous lawsuit against someone is not legal.
Then let's put it this way: In America, you can ruin/make the life miserable for/generally fsck up a person (or even a company) by suing them repeatedly, even if you lose every time, as long as your budget for legal fees is bigger than theirs.
The lawsuits don't need to be frivolous, they just need to be baseless, but not baseless enough that they're thrown out immediately.
a mutual circle of self-gratification on the part of its senior management. They were totally blinded to the industry trends at that time by their own egos, and they reacted to the external threats and forces in a way I can only characterize as sick.
Why... that's the difference between a manager and an entrepreneur. A manager may put his own interests ($$$) before the company, because he can just switch companies (and, heck, get a nice compensation package while doing so) once the supply of $$$ in his present company begins to run dry.
So, you make a very good point! Rounding these things up will not be possible.
Well, finally an application for the genetic engineers who gave us wonders like the Terminator and Traitor technologies - make the microbe require some chemical to be able to reproduce, with said chemical not being found outside the bioreactor.
Of course, that still leaves the possibility of mutating out of this requirement.
Heck. I guess we need some combination of things here. Like "requires chemicals X and Y to reproduce and will only produce gasoline (instead of something more harmless) in the presence of chemical Z".
The Europeans -- unlike the US -- were willing to compromise
Not just compromise, but work on a technical solution to the problem. And it has been available for a few years now - particulate filters. They work extremely well and reduce the particulate emissions of a diesel-powered car to "almost undetectable".
However there are still a lot of people out there that think that every piece of marketing material whether its legitimate or not should be treated as spam and the person sending it should be hung out on a noose.
If I feel the need to purchase a product of category X, I'm going to inform myself through hopefully neutral sources. Marketing doesn't count, since it it biased by default.
Capitalism needs marketing
I think what you're trying to say is "A free market economy needs marketing". Which still isn't quite true. In theory, a free market economy needs informed consumers that can chose the best product in order to be beneficial as a whole (i.e. produce the best goods at the lowest prices). Marketing, in its purest sense, tries to influence the choice of the customers by trying to replace "the best product" with "our product", usually by exploiting psychological loopholes and intentional misinformation. The resulting "Consumer economy" then does not favor the best products and the lowest prices, but the companies that market their crap best while still being able to overcharge the customer and provide lousy quality.
How well the latter works is shown by reality(tm). Spout enough marketing at your consumers and they'll buy any crap at any price and put up with even the lousiest quality.
The electrons that make up regular current flowing in a conductor, yes.
If you want fast electrons, you'll need to accelerate them, preferably in a vacuum, using at least a couple of kV of voltage. Then you'll get to relativistic speeds.
You guys *really* need some employment legislation
Nah. That sounds like socialism, and the US don't do that kind of thing. It's okay for companies to get away with murder, after all, they're the economy, and the economy is more important than anything else.
Blimey. If I went to a job interview and told them I was expecting a salary between £40,000 and £50,000 (or whatever) I'd be amazed if they offered more than £40,500. If I wanted or expected £50,000 I would ask for it.
Well... if the company advertises "above average" salaries and you give them a range that starts well below the average and ends above it, and they pick a number below the average, then you know they either didn't do their research or they're making false promises.
Considering that the average temperature of bath water is ~110F,
Yikes. That's a fairly hot bath (43 degrees celsius, yikes). You probably can't stand this for long, and if you have too many of these baths, you might end up infertile (if male). The latter might not be a concern since this is slashdot, though.
Assume you were El Presidente of some banana republic. You thought the peons were getting uppity and wanted to put them down. Would you sleep better if a> the populace had no firearms and no training in their use or b> the populace had firearms and were particularly good at long range shooting against moving mansized targets?
It doesn't really matter, as long as you have enough secret police/death squads/goons who are itching to kill someone. As the late Mr. Hussein put a while ago it: "If you want to kill me, you'll need to get in line. And the line is long."
And, as we all know, none of his well-armed subjects were able to kill him in the end. Dictators seem to find their end through suicide, disease or hanging much, much more often than by the bullet fired by the lone lone-range shooter.
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Nope. You get stuck in jail, because you're guilty, and you're easy to convict. The DNA proves it.
At the best, they're forced to pay you off,
You might want to know that not all US states have laws about the compensation of people who have been imprisoned mistakenly. So, even on the chance that you do get released from prison, there might not be a big cash prize waiting for you outside, just the shattered remains of what your life was. Have fun picking up the pieces.
Huh ? Well, of course we don't enjoy first amendment protections, considering that the constitution of the US doesn't apply here. However, similar terms can be found in the constitutions/equivalents thereof of many European countries ("Europe" isn't a country).
Looks like the tourism industry is noticing.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/01/31/internati onal.travel/index.html
It's not just that your side of the house is on fire, you're also making everyone else pour gas on their side.
Do you think my country can do anything about the ever-increasing loads of crap that I get shoved down my throat everytime I enter the US ? I'm still putting up with it because of family over there, but once they revoke the visa waiver program ("security experts" are in favor of this measure, or so I've heard), I'm going to call it quits.
My wife doesn't get fingerprinted or otherwise harassed when we return from the US.
Of course not ! If they did, they cannot prevent the evil terrorists from entering the US under false identities. The information is basically kept forever (decades), to be able to check your fingerprints against the ones taken from you when you entered earlier.
Isn't that one of the things that makes Americans so proud and superior to the rest of the world ?
Apart from your second amendment and such, you still have the right to vote (and to run for office - that's equally important) over there.
Hm. Is it too late already, or can we still find a suitable piece of space rock to hit Venus with, within the next couple of hundred years ?
Welcome to a free market economy (the job market) with informed customers. If the above is causing problems for a company, then maybe the company has a problem with paying the market price its labor needs and needs to review its wage/salary system instead of making a futile attempt at keeping its employees dumb.
Funny how everyone likes a free market until that means paying the actual market price for a certain item.
Why not ? The ones who will slack off before leaving would be dumb if they told you about it.
and I certainly don't want them hanging around telling all my customers and employees about their great new job.
In that case, you better hire a good hit man instead. Or how else do you want to keep them from talking to their colleagues outside of work ? Maybe they have their cellphone numbers, maybe they're even friends, maybe they even go out for a drink after work. Heck. Maybe they'll even us the internet in one form or another. Also, see above. The ones who do want really want to badmouth your company would be dumb if they gave any notice. They'll do what they want to do and then quit without notice.
So ... how many additional States that were ravaged by ~40 years of real socialism (not to be confused with what is usually considered socialism in the USA) did join the US in the last 20 years, and how does this compare to Germany ?
So, just because you don't have any work ethics, no one else should have any ?
What about temps ? Do you want them gone asap after hiring because they may be looking for their next job already ?
Then let's put it this way: In America, you can ruin/make the life miserable for/generally fsck up a person (or even a company) by suing them repeatedly, even if you lose every time, as long as your budget for legal fees is bigger than theirs.
The lawsuits don't need to be frivolous, they just need to be baseless, but not baseless enough that they're thrown out immediately.
Why
Examples I have seen ? Uh. Too many.
Think of all the other stuff you can find there. Metals like copper and such ... the older the garbage dump, the better.
Well, finally an application for the genetic engineers who gave us wonders like the Terminator and Traitor technologies - make the microbe require some chemical to be able to reproduce, with said chemical not being found outside the bioreactor.
Of course, that still leaves the possibility of mutating out of this requirement.
Heck. I guess we need some combination of things here. Like "requires chemicals X and Y to reproduce and will only produce gasoline (instead of something more harmless) in the presence of chemical Z".
Not just compromise, but work on a technical solution to the problem. And it has been available for a few years now - particulate filters. They work extremely well and reduce the particulate emissions of a diesel-powered car to "almost undetectable".
Sugar cane.
Europe has zero tropical areas and still produces plenty of sugar - from sugar beets.
If I feel the need to purchase a product of category X, I'm going to inform myself through hopefully neutral sources. Marketing doesn't count, since it it biased by default.
Capitalism needs marketing
I think what you're trying to say is "A free market economy needs marketing". Which still isn't quite true. In theory, a free market economy needs informed consumers that can chose the best product in order to be beneficial as a whole (i.e. produce the best goods at the lowest prices). Marketing, in its purest sense, tries to influence the choice of the customers by trying to replace "the best product" with "our product", usually by exploiting psychological loopholes and intentional misinformation. The resulting "Consumer economy" then does not favor the best products and the lowest prices, but the companies that market their crap best while still being able to overcharge the customer and provide lousy quality.
How well the latter works is shown by reality(tm). Spout enough marketing at your consumers and they'll buy any crap at any price and put up with even the lousiest quality.
The electrons that make up regular current flowing in a conductor, yes.
If you want fast electrons, you'll need to accelerate them, preferably in a vacuum, using at least a couple of kV of voltage. Then you'll get to relativistic speeds.
Build your computer on Pluto. Then you only need to cool the thing a few K from ambient temperature.
Nah. That sounds like socialism, and the US don't do that kind of thing. It's okay for companies to get away with murder, after all, they're the economy, and the economy is more important than anything else.
Well
Get it in writing next time, and sue the heck outta them if you get less than what's on the paper.
Considering that the average temperature of bath water is ~110F,
Yikes. That's a fairly hot bath (43 degrees celsius, yikes). You probably can't stand this for long, and if you have too many of these baths, you might end up infertile (if male). The latter might not be a concern since this is slashdot, though.
It doesn't really matter, as long as you have enough secret police/death squads/goons who are itching to kill someone. As the late Mr. Hussein put a while ago it: "If you want to kill me, you'll need to get in line. And the line is long."
And, as we all know, none of his well-armed subjects were able to kill him in the end. Dictators seem to find their end through suicide, disease or hanging much, much more often than by the bullet fired by the lone lone-range shooter.