Well, it isn't just a semantic difference if there's a contract involved, and the contract stipulates time and a half for overtime. Would it invalidate the contract?
Oh, and BTW, you guys need to unionize (I'm out of the fight, I retire in 2 years). And a thought just occurred to me -- if I were required to work overtime at my normal rate, I'd just refuse to work overtime. Fuck 'em.
The God Damned 1% and their congressional stooges are still trying to remove the American workers' rights that have been fought for, and in many cases died for them.
Too bad assassination is immoral and illegal. But despite the fact that it is, these greedy Godless bastards had damned well better watch their backs. If they don't loosen up, there's going to be violence (see the link for a short history).
Hey, thanks! I grinned at XBase, I wrote a dBase clone in Clipper about fifteen years ago and gave it the same name. I'll have to try it out (hope it's better than the one I wrote). NOMAD was a great dbms, I'll certainly have to install that.
Looks like they're pulling the same shit Ubuntu pulled with upstart (init replacement). "Let's replace something simple and elegant with something complex, incomplete, and very difficult to fix when it goes wrong".
One could make that argument about solid-state electronics, the move away from punch-cards, the move from paper-based filing, the move to journaled filesystems, etc.
No, one couldn't. The difference between a solid state circuit and an old fashioned "simple" one is you replace the tubes with transistors. It is no more complex (although when I was a kid with a soldering iron, it vexed me because I understood how tubes worked but was at a loss to understand the workings of transistors). Punch cards were far more complex (perhaps the correct word I should use is "complicated"), and manual filing was no simpler but far mor elabor intensive. Journaled filesystems make it simpler for the end user.
Sometimes progress means letting go of the past
And they do stupid shit like replacing a car radio's volume knob with buttons. What moron decided that? Glad they went back. Another was nylon shoelaces, wtf? Glad they finally changed again to nylon+cotton.
And I really miss the old gravity furnace in the house I used to live in when an ice storm drags the cables down and the power goes out. The old gravity furnaces didn't use external power, they generated it internally for the thermostat with a little device called a "power pile".
I'll tell you what, though, I far prefer this sci-fi 21st century life to the primitive times I grew up in. But sometimes "progress" isn't very progressive.
I'm a little offtopic here, but you guys' remarks reminded me to ask: is there a Linux equivalent to dBase or, better yet, NOMAD? I would think NOMAD could be easily ported, since it was (is?) a mainframe DBMS that likely ran on UNIX.
Why do you do that? Don't you realize how ignorant it makes you look?
Only a small percentage is about color and smell, the rest is about covering up her real look and make it appear she is younger, more in shape and less ravaged by daily life.
And ironically (and I don't know why women can't see this), the base whatever they call it that makes a young woman look better makes a 40 year old look like she's 60.
I know you're joking, but there are beautiful women here in Springfield and we only have a population of 110,000. I had a drinking buddy that made Sandra Bullock look like her plain jane sister. Of course, the butt ugly ones outnumber the beauties 100 to 1. Lots of corn fed cows walking the streets, as well as cartoon characters.
When you airbrush, you're destroying the original data. That's why you can detect the change; it no longer has the same fringing around areas of contrast, the noise levels don't quite match, the gradients don't look exactly the same, the reflections of lighting are subtly off, etc.
Those are all the result of poor rendering. A good artist can make it more real than real -- go to an art museum and have a look at some of the photorealistic pencil drawings.
Determining if something is photoshopped is easy when the shopper has no artistic training, hard if it's a good artist, impossible if he's a master at his craft.
Reread coldwetdog's comment. Jpeg is lossy, tiff is not. The difference between tif and jpg is the same difference between wav and mp3. You can save a tiff as many times as you like without losing quality.
You do know that we went from the founding of this country to 1913 without an income tax, right?
There was no income tax, but there was taxation. My grandfather was 17 years old in 1913. Few know (as far as I can tell) that when the federal income tax was enacted, only the rich were taxed.
The tax was to pay for a war, which is pretty much where most of your federal income taxes go anyway.
Without income taxes you would not have the interstate highway system (which, incidentally, was built by a Republican administration). I was a little kid when they started building it, and I remember that getting from St Louis to Springfield was a three or four hour drive, vs the hour and a half (or less) on the interstate.
Without federal income taxes you would not have the hoover dam. Americans would not have landed on the moon. America wouldn't have been able to reap the financial winfall of rebuilding Europe after WWII.
The only downside to taxes is that you're a greedy selfish money grubber. Since you seem to be a tea party type, you probably consider yourself to be a Christian (hint: there are no Christians in the Tea Party, it is definitely against everything Jesus taught), you might want to open that bible you like to thump and read Matthew 22:21.
Eventually, the city where separating out the table scraps for composting becomes mandatory, will hire "trash police" whose sole duty is to check and fine people who do not comply with the rules.
You may find this amusing.
SPRINGFIELD â" A property owner in the 800 block of West Jefferson Street was ticketed after police saw a large amount of leaves in the street in front of two addresses there Wednesday morning.
Officers on patrol about 3 a.m. said the pile was so big that a semi truck drove over it and did nothing to disperse the pile.
Other yards in the block had leaves still in them, but the yards at two addresses were clear of leaves. They obtained the name of the property owner and wrote a ticket that was referred to the city attorney for further action.
My garbage doen't wind up in your yard, air, or water. It's buried on someone else's land, who is paid to take it. As to the rest (Hummers etc), yes you are correct.
The real problem is that the garbage collection services are monopolized by government, the franchise licenses or however it's done, depending on locality, basically there is no competition in garbage collection.
Maybe it's because Springfield is a cartoon city, but here the power company is owned and operated by the city, and there are half a dozen private trash haulers who, afaik, don't have franchise licenses, merely the same type of business license a restaraunt would need.
All cities and their ordinances and structures are different.
Driving through the Desert West, slowing down and taking a short walk off road frequently reveals the extent of communities to just assume putting something over there in the weeds was a good enough way to dispose of it - quite a lot of rubbish in the desert, over 50 years old and still sitting there, it didn't go away
So how are old wagon wheels and buckets and other assorted rubbish harming the environment, unless you're talking about something toxic like a bag of DDT? To nature, that old wagon wheel is no different from a fallen branch. Asthetics have nothing to do with the environment.
Now, electronic waste, yes, just tossing it is stupid.
If you believe that, then you make way too much money to have a clue how normal people live, especially if you're talking about CT scans. Those things are horribly expensive. Even with health insurance, every time I see the doctor (which is as infrequently as possible; I'm a nerd but I'm not Bill Gates) I have to cut seriously back on other expenses.
And as for healthcare, no one goes without treatment
I'm sorry, but that's a right-wing myth with no basis in fact whatever. You have to be treated in an emergency room, but only the truly indigent get it free.
My best friend, who I'd known since we were teenagers, had a job with no health benefits. He caught appendicitis and was treated in the ER. It destroyed his credit and impoverished him and his family, and took most of a decade to clear.
The next time he had symptoms that one should tale to the ER, he died.
Because of this I'd probably flame you if I wasn't sure you're simply misinformed.
There's something I don't quite understand here. Wouldn't organic waste be eaten in the landill by the same organisms in the compost? How is it a problem? I would thaink the only problem with landfills would be toxins like lead, cadmium, mercury, etc.
I was with you until you started using terms like "leftist thugs."
Using that term means one of two things: he's either a 1%er on the board of a large bank, or he's an idiot from the tea party (and probably one of the other 1%, the 1% at the bottom).
Worse than the Germans bombing Britain? I think not. And it ended the war, saving far more people than died in those two cities. Worse than mustard gas in WWI? Hardly.
It's $300k, the minimum you earn and still be in the top 1%.
Who the hell are you to decide when someone makes too much money and should pay more?
Someone who's pissed off at you robber barons. And I'm with him there. The middle class has been stolen from since I was a kid, and it's about time something was done.
in most major metropolitan areas, $100k would barely get you by.
These groups of hackers are idiots, like most hackers,
I believe you may be confusing the word "hacker" with "script kiddie". Are you only here to troll? A hacker writes quick and dirty code (or modifies hardware to do what it wasn't designed to). Script kiddies take the hacker's code and break into computers with it.
This is slashdot, not People Magazine. We are not the average who misuse a term they don't understand. Use the proper terminology. Or better yet, just go away.
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Well, it isn't just a semantic difference if there's a contract involved, and the contract stipulates time and a half for overtime. Would it invalidate the contract?
Oh, and BTW, you guys need to unionize (I'm out of the fight, I retire in 2 years). And a thought just occurred to me -- if I were required to work overtime at my normal rate, I'd just refuse to work overtime. Fuck 'em.
The God Damned 1% and their congressional stooges are still trying to remove the American workers' rights that have been fought for, and in many cases died for them.
Too bad assassination is immoral and illegal. But despite the fact that it is, these greedy Godless bastards had damned well better watch their backs. If they don't loosen up, there's going to be violence (see the link for a short history).
Hey, thanks! I grinned at XBase, I wrote a dBase clone in Clipper about fifteen years ago and gave it the same name. I'll have to try it out (hope it's better than the one I wrote). NOMAD was a great dbms, I'll certainly have to install that.
And you must be one of those (the majority of Americans according to the polls) who thinks that someone else should pay their bills.
No, I'm someone who thinks the rich should pay THEIRS. And one of their bills is the bill for labor costs. Underpaying someone is theft.
Yes, because the forrger hasn't seen the real one and it will look nothing alike.
Thank you
Looks like they're pulling the same shit Ubuntu pulled with upstart (init replacement). "Let's replace something simple and elegant with something complex, incomplete, and very difficult to fix when it goes wrong".
One could make that argument about solid-state electronics, the move away from punch-cards, the move from paper-based filing, the move to journaled filesystems, etc.
No, one couldn't. The difference between a solid state circuit and an old fashioned "simple" one is you replace the tubes with transistors. It is no more complex (although when I was a kid with a soldering iron, it vexed me because I understood how tubes worked but was at a loss to understand the workings of transistors). Punch cards were far more complex (perhaps the correct word I should use is "complicated"), and manual filing was no simpler but far mor elabor intensive. Journaled filesystems make it simpler for the end user.
Sometimes progress means letting go of the past
And they do stupid shit like replacing a car radio's volume knob with buttons. What moron decided that? Glad they went back. Another was nylon shoelaces, wtf? Glad they finally changed again to nylon+cotton.
And I really miss the old gravity furnace in the house I used to live in when an ice storm drags the cables down and the power goes out. The old gravity furnaces didn't use external power, they generated it internally for the thermostat with a little device called a "power pile".
I'll tell you what, though, I far prefer this sci-fi 21st century life to the primitive times I grew up in. But sometimes "progress" isn't very progressive.
I'm a little offtopic here, but you guys' remarks reminded me to ask: is there a Linux equivalent to dBase or, better yet, NOMAD? I would think NOMAD could be easily ported, since it was (is?) a mainframe DBMS that likely ran on UNIX.
Long before photoshop photo's
Why do you do that? Don't you realize how ignorant it makes you look?
Only a small percentage is about color and smell, the rest is about covering up her real look and make it appear she is younger, more in shape and less ravaged by daily life.
And ironically (and I don't know why women can't see this), the base whatever they call it that makes a young woman look better makes a 40 year old look like she's 60.
It's in bad taste
You must be new here. This place is often less tasteful than a redneck bar in the ghetto (and BTW, I do in fact drink in a redneck bar in the ghetto).
I know you're joking, but there are beautiful women here in Springfield and we only have a population of 110,000. I had a drinking buddy that made Sandra Bullock look like her plain jane sister. Of course, the butt ugly ones outnumber the beauties 100 to 1. Lots of corn fed cows walking the streets, as well as cartoon characters.
When you airbrush, you're destroying the original data. That's why you can detect the change; it no longer has the same fringing around areas of contrast, the noise levels don't quite match, the gradients don't look exactly the same, the reflections of lighting are subtly off, etc.
Those are all the result of poor rendering. A good artist can make it more real than real -- go to an art museum and have a look at some of the photorealistic pencil drawings.
Determining if something is photoshopped is easy when the shopper has no artistic training, hard if it's a good artist, impossible if he's a master at his craft.
Reread coldwetdog's comment. Jpeg is lossy, tiff is not. The difference between tif and jpg is the same difference between wav and mp3. You can save a tiff as many times as you like without losing quality.
You do know that we went from the founding of this country to 1913 without an income tax, right?
There was no income tax, but there was taxation. My grandfather was 17 years old in 1913. Few know (as far as I can tell) that when the federal income tax was enacted, only the rich were taxed.
The tax was to pay for a war, which is pretty much where most of your federal income taxes go anyway.
Without income taxes you would not have the interstate highway system (which, incidentally, was built by a Republican administration). I was a little kid when they started building it, and I remember that getting from St Louis to Springfield was a three or four hour drive, vs the hour and a half (or less) on the interstate.
Without federal income taxes you would not have the hoover dam. Americans would not have landed on the moon. America wouldn't have been able to reap the financial winfall of rebuilding Europe after WWII.
The only downside to taxes is that you're a greedy selfish money grubber. Since you seem to be a tea party type, you probably consider yourself to be a Christian (hint: there are no Christians in the Tea Party, it is definitely against everything Jesus taught), you might want to open that bible you like to thump and read Matthew 22:21.
Eventually, the city where separating out the table scraps for composting becomes mandatory, will hire "trash police" whose sole duty is to check and fine people who do not comply with the rules.
You may find this amusing.
My garbage doen't wind up in your yard, air, or water. It's buried on someone else's land, who is paid to take it. As to the rest (Hummers etc), yes you are correct.
The real problem is that the garbage collection services are monopolized by government, the franchise licenses or however it's done, depending on locality, basically there is no competition in garbage collection.
Maybe it's because Springfield is a cartoon city, but here the power company is owned and operated by the city, and there are half a dozen private trash haulers who, afaik, don't have franchise licenses, merely the same type of business license a restaraunt would need.
All cities and their ordinances and structures are different.
Driving through the Desert West, slowing down and taking a short walk off road frequently reveals the extent of communities to just assume putting something over there in the weeds was a good enough way to dispose of it - quite a lot of rubbish in the desert, over 50 years old and still sitting there, it didn't go away
So how are old wagon wheels and buckets and other assorted rubbish harming the environment, unless you're talking about something toxic like a bag of DDT? To nature, that old wagon wheel is no different from a fallen branch. Asthetics have nothing to do with the environment.
Now, electronic waste, yes, just tossing it is stupid.
it doesn't cost that much to see a doctor
If you believe that, then you make way too much money to have a clue how normal people live, especially if you're talking about CT scans. Those things are horribly expensive. Even with health insurance, every time I see the doctor (which is as infrequently as possible; I'm a nerd but I'm not Bill Gates) I have to cut seriously back on other expenses.
And as for healthcare, no one goes without treatment
I'm sorry, but that's a right-wing myth with no basis in fact whatever. You have to be treated in an emergency room, but only the truly indigent get it free.
My best friend, who I'd known since we were teenagers, had a job with no health benefits. He caught appendicitis and was treated in the ER. It destroyed his credit and impoverished him and his family, and took most of a decade to clear.
The next time he had symptoms that one should tale to the ER, he died.
Because of this I'd probably flame you if I wasn't sure you're simply misinformed.
There's something I don't quite understand here. Wouldn't organic waste be eaten in the landill by the same organisms in the compost? How is it a problem? I would thaink the only problem with landfills would be toxins like lead, cadmium, mercury, etc.
I was with you until you started using terms like "leftist thugs."
Using that term means one of two things: he's either a 1%er on the board of a large bank, or he's an idiot from the tea party (and probably one of the other 1%, the 1% at the bottom).
Worse than the Germans bombing Britain? I think not. And it ended the war, saving far more people than died in those two cities. Worse than mustard gas in WWI? Hardly.
Seems to me the RIAA is usually pretty spaced out on cocaine. So yes.
It's $300k, the minimum you earn and still be in the top 1%.
Who the hell are you to decide when someone makes too much money and should pay more?
Someone who's pissed off at you robber barons. And I'm with him there. The middle class has been stolen from since I was a kid, and it's about time something was done.
in most major metropolitan areas, $100k would barely get you by.
*sigh* You must be one of those millionaires who doesn't think he's rich.
These groups of hackers are idiots, like most hackers,
I believe you may be confusing the word "hacker" with "script kiddie". Are you only here to troll? A hacker writes quick and dirty code (or modifies hardware to do what it wasn't designed to). Script kiddies take the hacker's code and break into computers with it.
This is slashdot, not People Magazine. We are not the average who misuse a term they don't understand. Use the proper terminology. Or better yet, just go away.