One doesn't need abstinence in order to be HIV negative for an entire life. One just needs to get regularly tested, use protection and keep sex partners to some sort of sane number. And avoid sharing needles. Then there's the rare occurence of contracting HIV from a transfusion, but that's a risk that's sufficiently low for most people to not even bother worrying bout. If people would do that, then HIV wouldn't be common and would probably just die out in a matter of time.
Which puts us like 20 years behind. HIV was a really stupid epidemic. Early on folks getting infected was going to happen, but when it became known that it was an STI and that not having sex with HIV infected partners would stop the spread, it became really stupid for people to contract it on the scale that they did.
It's a bad concept. All it does is encourage trade deficits. Traditionally the way that it works is that a container is shipped from say China to the US, the contents are then emptied and it is refilled with something from the US which then goes somewhere else.
The only reason that this is being tried is because containers are starting to collect in one place or another, and the solution isn't foldable containers, the solution is getting rid of free trade agreements and enacting policies to correct the systemic trade deficits which have led to the problem in the first place. In the long term, trade deficits aren't in anybody's best interest.
Well, it's not just that, it's that the devices are designed to give the most range possible without going with a unidirectional antenna. And the problem is that it worked fine when the 802.11b devices were first rolling out because few people had them, but as they've gotten to be common, you then have to deal with a dozen WAP competing for scarce spectrum.
And all is well and good if you have a large property, but if you're in an apartment and just need something that's fast and can let you move from the desk to the kitchen table, say 15' away, having a device cranking out enough power to go 200' is way too much power.
The difference is that it's OK to volunteer for a non-profit or charitable organization, but illegal when it's a for profit entity that's profiting from the labor. The reason being that it makes it harder for companies to pressure employees to work off the clock so that they don't get laid off in the future.
The shortened version is that you can't accept volunteer labor unless you're a religious institution, a charitable organization or are public sector or are a similar type of non-profit entity. Valve definitely can't accept volunteer labor if its going to be profiting from it.
Whether they want to or not, Valve is legally barred from profiting from volunteer labor. Valve is legally obliged to pay for the work at at least the minimum wage. I'm not up enough on labor law to know whether that means the federal minimum wage or WA state minimum wage, but accepting volunteer labor under these conditions is unlikely to be legal.
And with good reason, I have a hard time believing that Valve couldn't find enough Korean speakers to do the translations for pay, without having to crowd source it. It's not like it's an obscure language spoken only by people that don't believe in work for money.
If they release it as a generic patch that's free for everybody, they might be able to skirt the issue, but otherwise they're almost certain to be fined if anybody files a complaint.
Under federal law volunteers must be volunteering for a public sector, religious or non-profit institution. For profit entities are barred from profiting from volunteer labor. http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp
Red Hat makes money primarily on support and if you don't want to pay them, then you have other options, you can go without support or you can hire somebody else. With Steam, you pay for the product and support or you do without, the other option being piracy.
I'd say that makes it very different, when a corporation uses volunteer labor for a pay only product, that's fundamentally different from when a corporation makes money off a freely available product.
Around here one of the parking lots has restrictions on where people can park for validated parking. It's one contiguous parking lot, but when you go inside to get the validation there are signs up saying that you can only park in these spaces. And some are only available for certain businesses, but aren't marked in any way shape or form.
I'd be curious as to how that could possibly stand up in court.
Right, and the cost you pay is having to recompile and possibly rewrite every application that you want to use.
As I pointed out, Intel thought that they could introduce a 64bit architecture that lacked support for 32bit applications and ended up being taken over AMD's lap for a spanking.
As for thermal dissipation, 18 watts isn't that much, with the right heat sink you can dissipate most CPUs using something like this: http://www.nofencomputer.com/eng/products/CR-100A.php And ultimately, that's just at peak use, most of the time, the consumption is significantly lower than that.
The point is that we all had dice rolled for us when we were conceived. Some didn't make it through the first few cell divisions and others will make it to old age without significant health problems. A lot of that is just blind luck. We don't get to choose who our parents are or what genetic consequences might result. We don't get to choose whether or not our parents smoke or engaged in unwise activities while being a baby.
And yes, it is charging people for having an infirmity. I didn't personally choose to spend those days in the ER as a kid, they were the result of something beyond my control. Folks lucky enough not to have to deal with that should show some appreciation and recognize that it was primarily luck, not any sort of action. The next time the die is cast, they might not be so lucky.
The problem with dog tags and bracelets is that they only work if the child is found by somebody. These sorts of GPS devices allow you to find the child. They aren't perfect, but they do greatly reduce the search area if a child goes missing. They can be fooled or removed, but they're still quite a bit more likely to result in a child being found in good condition.
I don't personally see any issue with it, provided that they're still being looked after and the devices are removed when they go home. It's not just children walking off, it's the one offs that nobody sees coming.
The main concern I would have would be complacency that can come from having a back up.
Personally, I'd be fine with this if I had kids in daycare.
The problem is that SCOTUS has been packed by conservatives looking to use the court to enforce their views, even as trying to prevent the moderates from appointing people that dare to read the constitution.
OTOH, it did get President Bush elected twice, so I can't blame them for being emboldened by their seditious activities.
That was my though, I have a Zacate processor in my Laptop which would be far more suitable for a desktop than your average ARM processor. ARM would ultimately face the same uphill struggle for acceptance that Intel's MERCED did when AMD whomped them with their AMD64 architecture. Changing instruction sets isn't easy to do and the main reason that folks tolerate it with mobile processors is that it saves them so much scarce battery life. Switching to one of AMD's mobile offerings would pretty much eliminate that concern. My laptop for instance uses 25w with everything maxed out. You're not likely to save enough power going with ARM on a desktop to make it worthwhile.
As a general rule, I tend to say that anybody that says that you can use an OS without the CLI is either fooling themselves, limited to a small number of tasks or has the most bloated OS ever. Even Windows has certain things like renewing the IP address that are a lot quicker from the command line.
It is, but you can go a long with with grep, sed and awk. I don't look fondly on the days before I learned that I could use those three commands to mostly eliminate the time I spent looking through results and trying to compare strings when I could just use those thrown together with md5 and cmp to compare the checksums for me.
They might argue that, but if you're paying tuition, then they can't make that claim. They're giving the credits in exchange for payment provided the work is completed satisfactorily. There might be a plausible claim if the college is picking up the tab and providing the credits for free.
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One doesn't need abstinence in order to be HIV negative for an entire life. One just needs to get regularly tested, use protection and keep sex partners to some sort of sane number. And avoid sharing needles. Then there's the rare occurence of contracting HIV from a transfusion, but that's a risk that's sufficiently low for most people to not even bother worrying bout. If people would do that, then HIV wouldn't be common and would probably just die out in a matter of time.
Which puts us like 20 years behind. HIV was a really stupid epidemic. Early on folks getting infected was going to happen, but when it became known that it was an STI and that not having sex with HIV infected partners would stop the spread, it became really stupid for people to contract it on the scale that they did.
I think we'd be willing to give you Texas if you promise not to give it back.
They're plenty of sites dedicated to that, it's just that they have strange names like JC Penny and Macy's.
It's a bad concept. All it does is encourage trade deficits. Traditionally the way that it works is that a container is shipped from say China to the US, the contents are then emptied and it is refilled with something from the US which then goes somewhere else.
The only reason that this is being tried is because containers are starting to collect in one place or another, and the solution isn't foldable containers, the solution is getting rid of free trade agreements and enacting policies to correct the systemic trade deficits which have led to the problem in the first place. In the long term, trade deficits aren't in anybody's best interest.
Yes, but you probably don't want to go visit the highest bidder. You'd probably want the one that's either the most convenient or the best coffee.
Well, it's not just that, it's that the devices are designed to give the most range possible without going with a unidirectional antenna. And the problem is that it worked fine when the 802.11b devices were first rolling out because few people had them, but as they've gotten to be common, you then have to deal with a dozen WAP competing for scarce spectrum.
And all is well and good if you have a large property, but if you're in an apartment and just need something that's fast and can let you move from the desk to the kitchen table, say 15' away, having a device cranking out enough power to go 200' is way too much power.
The difference is that it's OK to volunteer for a non-profit or charitable organization, but illegal when it's a for profit entity that's profiting from the labor. The reason being that it makes it harder for companies to pressure employees to work off the clock so that they don't get laid off in the future.
http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp
You mean apart from the fact that this is almost certain to be a violation of the FLSA? http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp for more information.
The shortened version is that you can't accept volunteer labor unless you're a religious institution, a charitable organization or are public sector or are a similar type of non-profit entity. Valve definitely can't accept volunteer labor if its going to be profiting from it.
Whether they want to or not, Valve is legally barred from profiting from volunteer labor. Valve is legally obliged to pay for the work at at least the minimum wage. I'm not up enough on labor law to know whether that means the federal minimum wage or WA state minimum wage, but accepting volunteer labor under these conditions is unlikely to be legal.
And with good reason, I have a hard time believing that Valve couldn't find enough Korean speakers to do the translations for pay, without having to crowd source it. It's not like it's an obscure language spoken only by people that don't believe in work for money.
If they release it as a generic patch that's free for everybody, they might be able to skirt the issue, but otherwise they're almost certain to be fined if anybody files a complaint.
Under federal law volunteers must be volunteering for a public sector, religious or non-profit institution. For profit entities are barred from profiting from volunteer labor. http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp
Red Hat makes money primarily on support and if you don't want to pay them, then you have other options, you can go without support or you can hire somebody else. With Steam, you pay for the product and support or you do without, the other option being piracy.
I'd say that makes it very different, when a corporation uses volunteer labor for a pay only product, that's fundamentally different from when a corporation makes money off a freely available product.
Just hold the phone upside down.
Unfortunately, the includes freedom to be a complete tool.
Around here one of the parking lots has restrictions on where people can park for validated parking. It's one contiguous parking lot, but when you go inside to get the validation there are signs up saying that you can only park in these spaces. And some are only available for certain businesses, but aren't marked in any way shape or form.
I'd be curious as to how that could possibly stand up in court.
Right, and the cost you pay is having to recompile and possibly rewrite every application that you want to use.
As I pointed out, Intel thought that they could introduce a 64bit architecture that lacked support for 32bit applications and ended up being taken over AMD's lap for a spanking.
As for thermal dissipation, 18 watts isn't that much, with the right heat sink you can dissipate most CPUs using something like this: http://www.nofencomputer.com/eng/products/CR-100A.php
And ultimately, that's just at peak use, most of the time, the consumption is significantly lower than that.
The point is that we all had dice rolled for us when we were conceived. Some didn't make it through the first few cell divisions and others will make it to old age without significant health problems. A lot of that is just blind luck. We don't get to choose who our parents are or what genetic consequences might result. We don't get to choose whether or not our parents smoke or engaged in unwise activities while being a baby.
And yes, it is charging people for having an infirmity. I didn't personally choose to spend those days in the ER as a kid, they were the result of something beyond my control. Folks lucky enough not to have to deal with that should show some appreciation and recognize that it was primarily luck, not any sort of action. The next time the die is cast, they might not be so lucky.
The problem with dog tags and bracelets is that they only work if the child is found by somebody. These sorts of GPS devices allow you to find the child. They aren't perfect, but they do greatly reduce the search area if a child goes missing. They can be fooled or removed, but they're still quite a bit more likely to result in a child being found in good condition.
I don't personally see any issue with it, provided that they're still being looked after and the devices are removed when they go home. It's not just children walking off, it's the one offs that nobody sees coming.
The main concern I would have would be complacency that can come from having a back up.
Personally, I'd be fine with this if I had kids in daycare.
The problem is that SCOTUS has been packed by conservatives looking to use the court to enforce their views, even as trying to prevent the moderates from appointing people that dare to read the constitution.
OTOH, it did get President Bush elected twice, so I can't blame them for being emboldened by their seditious activities.
It's not discrimination it's because those places have bans that prohibit it. We could have that in the US as well if not for the corporatists.
That was my though, I have a Zacate processor in my Laptop which would be far more suitable for a desktop than your average ARM processor. ARM would ultimately face the same uphill struggle for acceptance that Intel's MERCED did when AMD whomped them with their AMD64 architecture. Changing instruction sets isn't easy to do and the main reason that folks tolerate it with mobile processors is that it saves them so much scarce battery life. Switching to one of AMD's mobile offerings would pretty much eliminate that concern. My laptop for instance uses 25w with everything maxed out. You're not likely to save enough power going with ARM on a desktop to make it worthwhile.
As a general rule, I tend to say that anybody that says that you can use an OS without the CLI is either fooling themselves, limited to a small number of tasks or has the most bloated OS ever. Even Windows has certain things like renewing the IP address that are a lot quicker from the command line.
It is, but you can go a long with with grep, sed and awk. I don't look fondly on the days before I learned that I could use those three commands to mostly eliminate the time I spent looking through results and trying to compare strings when I could just use those thrown together with md5 and cmp to compare the checksums for me.
They might argue that, but if you're paying tuition, then they can't make that claim. They're giving the credits in exchange for payment provided the work is completed satisfactorily. There might be a plausible claim if the college is picking up the tab and providing the credits for free.