That right there is one of the problems. It's one thing to give a bonus for employees that take care of themselves in general and quite another to pay for specific methods of doing it.
As much as I do think that businesses should encourage healthy eating and clean living, I really don't think this sort of direct approach is really appropriate. If they want to help their workers they ought to be nudging them towards it. Making it as convenient as possible to access healthy snacks, subsidizing exercise programs and possibly encouraging people to use the stairs.
My personal favorite diet is getting enough sleep and drinking some tea. Took off 30# like that and it's never come back. Plus, I have plenty of excuses to go to bed early and get plenty of sleep.
Pizza isn't inherently bad. It's a bit high on protein, but other than that it's perfectly fine and easily included in a balanced diet. Cheese, tomato, oregano, crust, those are all things that fit well in a well balanced diet. Where you start to get in trouble is with the toppings, pepperoni, sausage and such.
Red meat isn't that fatty, provided you get yourself a decent cut. And that there is a large part of the problem it really depends what cut your talking about and how it was prepared. It makes a substantial difference whether your hamburger patty used hamburger or the healthier ground beef as in the US there's a fat content requirement at work.
You just answered your own question there, that's precisely why we didn't do it and why we never will. Europe converted on a nation by nation basis and in the aftermath of WWI and WWII had the option of redoing that with some consistency. The US OTOH has had a consistent, and enforced, set of units for a long, long time and those were based on the system developed by the British.
The problem isn't overtaxing people's brains it's that everything is measured by our current system of measurements. Building materials are sold in imperial units, all our existing infrastructure uses imperial units. Building codes specify things using imperial units and it's an absolutely mind bogglingly large number of combinations to worry about.
It's not about us being stupid, it's about us having a stable system that works and being asked to give that up for something that would result in an inferior outcome.
Indeed, it's hardly just the military. We have a huge amount of previously existing infrastructure that would have to either be torn down and replaced or cobbled together out of a mishmash of metric and customary measured components.
The main difference is that the US by that time had a set of standards that were enforced and worked, we didn't have the advantage the Europe did of having to already redo most of the infrastructure or the advantage that the 2nd and 3rd world did of not having much previously built infrastructure.
We have converted to metric for some things like soda and many cars are metric, but when all is said and done, for most people there just isn't much advantage to going metric.
Right and you got extraordinarily lucky. Without a written agreement ahead of time there's no saying what would happen. And at any rate, this sounds like a FLSA violation waiting to happen. Volunteering is only legal under certain circumstances and if it's a small trade college it may or may not qualify.
Really the best thing for all involved would be for the code not to be written without some form of agreement so that everybody's rights are protected later on.
Right, because we still refer to black people as Negroes and the Chinese as Orientals. The point wasn't that people don't do it, the point was that it shows a distinct lack of cultural awareness which leads the failure in communication between the US and its allies and the Arab world.
I know you're joking, but manufacturers have a habit of making apps like that automatically load and prevent them from being uninstalled. Completely killed the Motorola Backflip for me. I liked the basic design, but it was heavily locked down and resources going to carrier apps that I was never going to use.
Yes, but if you have two bulbs that go bad it can take a considerable amount of time and effort to locate the bad bulbs. Even at minimum wage it makes more sense to just work a half hour than it does to spend the time fixing a $2 string of lights.
I spent a half hour unsuccessfully trying to find the broken bulb in a string of lights. Ultimately, I ended up finding a dozen or so ones that wouldn't light before I gave up. With the amount of time I spent on it, I could have worked an extra half hour or so and just bought another string. It's hard to say how much more time it would have taken me to find out what the issue, for all I know it could have been a wire and not a bulb.
Last tester I tried was really hit or miss and not much better than manually moving bulbs around.
How do you separate the publishers that provide value from the ones that don't? The big boys tend to provide very little value to the authors and world at large, but small and mid size publishing houses provide things like editorial support and access to targeted placements in whatever their specialty area is.
The GOP would never go for it though, and unless the Democrats get enough votes for cloture they couldn't get it through the Senate. Not that the Democrats are necessarily any better, but the GOP is primarily in charge of looking out for the rich regardless of what it does to the country.
That's not extraordinary, they realize that if they kill funding to Mozilla that they'll almost certainly be slapped with an antitrust lawsuit and could very easily wind up being broken up. It would take some incredible hutzpah for them to even try and risk that, there's just way too little to be gained for the risk.
Opera has negligible market share and Safari isn't usable on Windows. I had to duckduckgo for Dragon because I haven't heard of it before. You don't need to have 100% of the market sewn up in order to run afoul of antitrust regulations.
Right now you've got IE, Fx and Chrome combining for something like 90% of the web browsers used at the moment, what the other 10% are doesn't really matter that much, they're not likely to gain much traction and most of them are just reskins of the top 3 browsers.
Not really, at the end of the day businesses hire when they can't shift work loads around to handle the work load. But in some cases there generally aren't jobs because they're shrinking. Take drafting for example, that's a career that's more or less extinct because all those jobs moved to CAD. Likewise longshoreman are only in demand as long as there are things to unload from ships, if there aren't things to unload then there isn't any reason to hire or retain them.
Agriculture is probably the ultimate example of that, you've now got a handful of people tending more acreage than hundreds did a couple hundred years ago.
Right, what a lot of these discussions tend to miss is that your network is only as secure as the weakest device on it. If all the computers are patched except one, often times that's all that's needed to gain access to things that are supposed to be secured.
No, it's our language when it comes to international communication. We don't own the varieties spoken in Australia, Guyana, India and whatever other regions use English, but if you want to be understood you really ought to be sticking fairly close to either British English or American English.
They ditched it at the right time, the problem is that we let budget cutters prevent NASA from funding the replacement we should have had 15 years ago. I remember in the late '80s seeing speculation about what the next space vehicles were going to look like. It's been over 20 years since then and they still haven't produced a final prototype.
This stuff is complicated, but it's hard for me to believe that they couldn't have produced a retooled shuttle with newer innovations in 20 years time. At very least they ought to have been able to redo the controls and keep the same basic design. It's complicated, but hardly new territory like it was when they built the first shuttles.
Contrary to your statement the internet doesn't just self heal, as long as you take down the correct bit of infrastructure somebody has to go out and fix it. Moreover they have to recognize that something's gone wrong and that can take time if the damage is subtle enough.
Beyond that, you need people to go out and fix the connectivity to a particular region. Sure the internet at large just routes around it, but I can't imagine that even the hawks in the DoD are suggesting that we take the entire net down, most likely they'll be wanting to remove a country from the net as completely as possible.
Ultimately you don't have to take them off line completely for it to be effective, limiting them to a connection that you can slip propaganda into is quite useful at times. As is reminding the population how tenuously seated the government is.
As opposed to the other nations that are already doing that, just without any formal declaration. I would be very surprised indeed if China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Israel and others weren't already engaging in offensive operations online.
OTOH, why let the likely truth prevent such bigoted trash talk from being posted.
And yet you see traits from GMO showing up in plants in neighboring fields. It's bordering on fraud to then label those resulting fruits and vegetables as non-GMO when they still contain unnatural proteins that are only there because of genetic engineering.
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That right there is one of the problems. It's one thing to give a bonus for employees that take care of themselves in general and quite another to pay for specific methods of doing it.
As much as I do think that businesses should encourage healthy eating and clean living, I really don't think this sort of direct approach is really appropriate. If they want to help their workers they ought to be nudging them towards it. Making it as convenient as possible to access healthy snacks, subsidizing exercise programs and possibly encouraging people to use the stairs.
My personal favorite diet is getting enough sleep and drinking some tea. Took off 30# like that and it's never come back. Plus, I have plenty of excuses to go to bed early and get plenty of sleep.
http://xkcd.com/984/
Pizza isn't inherently bad. It's a bit high on protein, but other than that it's perfectly fine and easily included in a balanced diet. Cheese, tomato, oregano, crust, those are all things that fit well in a well balanced diet. Where you start to get in trouble is with the toppings, pepperoni, sausage and such.
Red meat isn't that fatty, provided you get yourself a decent cut. And that there is a large part of the problem it really depends what cut your talking about and how it was prepared. It makes a substantial difference whether your hamburger patty used hamburger or the healthier ground beef as in the US there's a fat content requirement at work.
You just answered your own question there, that's precisely why we didn't do it and why we never will. Europe converted on a nation by nation basis and in the aftermath of WWI and WWII had the option of redoing that with some consistency. The US OTOH has had a consistent, and enforced, set of units for a long, long time and those were based on the system developed by the British.
The problem isn't overtaxing people's brains it's that everything is measured by our current system of measurements. Building materials are sold in imperial units, all our existing infrastructure uses imperial units. Building codes specify things using imperial units and it's an absolutely mind bogglingly large number of combinations to worry about.
It's not about us being stupid, it's about us having a stable system that works and being asked to give that up for something that would result in an inferior outcome.
Indeed, it's hardly just the military. We have a huge amount of previously existing infrastructure that would have to either be torn down and replaced or cobbled together out of a mishmash of metric and customary measured components.
The main difference is that the US by that time had a set of standards that were enforced and worked, we didn't have the advantage the Europe did of having to already redo most of the infrastructure or the advantage that the 2nd and 3rd world did of not having much previously built infrastructure.
We have converted to metric for some things like soda and many cars are metric, but when all is said and done, for most people there just isn't much advantage to going metric.
Right and you got extraordinarily lucky. Without a written agreement ahead of time there's no saying what would happen. And at any rate, this sounds like a FLSA violation waiting to happen. Volunteering is only legal under certain circumstances and if it's a small trade college it may or may not qualify.
Really the best thing for all involved would be for the code not to be written without some form of agreement so that everybody's rights are protected later on.
Right, because we still refer to black people as Negroes and the Chinese as Orientals. The point wasn't that people don't do it, the point was that it shows a distinct lack of cultural awareness which leads the failure in communication between the US and its allies and the Arab world.
I know you're joking, but manufacturers have a habit of making apps like that automatically load and prevent them from being uninstalled. Completely killed the Motorola Backflip for me. I liked the basic design, but it was heavily locked down and resources going to carrier apps that I was never going to use.
And needlessly demeaning Mecca is better? Seriously, Mecca is more than just the end point of a massive annual pilgrimage.
Yes, but if you have two bulbs that go bad it can take a considerable amount of time and effort to locate the bad bulbs. Even at minimum wage it makes more sense to just work a half hour than it does to spend the time fixing a $2 string of lights.
I spent a half hour unsuccessfully trying to find the broken bulb in a string of lights. Ultimately, I ended up finding a dozen or so ones that wouldn't light before I gave up. With the amount of time I spent on it, I could have worked an extra half hour or so and just bought another string. It's hard to say how much more time it would have taken me to find out what the issue, for all I know it could have been a wire and not a bulb.
Last tester I tried was really hit or miss and not much better than manually moving bulbs around.
How do you separate the publishers that provide value from the ones that don't? The big boys tend to provide very little value to the authors and world at large, but small and mid size publishing houses provide things like editorial support and access to targeted placements in whatever their specialty area is.
The GOP would never go for it though, and unless the Democrats get enough votes for cloture they couldn't get it through the Senate. Not that the Democrats are necessarily any better, but the GOP is primarily in charge of looking out for the rich regardless of what it does to the country.
That's not extraordinary, they realize that if they kill funding to Mozilla that they'll almost certainly be slapped with an antitrust lawsuit and could very easily wind up being broken up. It would take some incredible hutzpah for them to even try and risk that, there's just way too little to be gained for the risk.
Opera has negligible market share and Safari isn't usable on Windows. I had to duckduckgo for Dragon because I haven't heard of it before. You don't need to have 100% of the market sewn up in order to run afoul of antitrust regulations.
Right now you've got IE, Fx and Chrome combining for something like 90% of the web browsers used at the moment, what the other 10% are doesn't really matter that much, they're not likely to gain much traction and most of them are just reskins of the top 3 browsers.
Not really, at the end of the day businesses hire when they can't shift work loads around to handle the work load. But in some cases there generally aren't jobs because they're shrinking. Take drafting for example, that's a career that's more or less extinct because all those jobs moved to CAD. Likewise longshoreman are only in demand as long as there are things to unload from ships, if there aren't things to unload then there isn't any reason to hire or retain them.
Agriculture is probably the ultimate example of that, you've now got a handful of people tending more acreage than hundreds did a couple hundred years ago.
Right, what a lot of these discussions tend to miss is that your network is only as secure as the weakest device on it. If all the computers are patched except one, often times that's all that's needed to gain access to things that are supposed to be secured.
No, it's our language when it comes to international communication. We don't own the varieties spoken in Australia, Guyana, India and whatever other regions use English, but if you want to be understood you really ought to be sticking fairly close to either British English or American English.
They ditched it at the right time, the problem is that we let budget cutters prevent NASA from funding the replacement we should have had 15 years ago. I remember in the late '80s seeing speculation about what the next space vehicles were going to look like. It's been over 20 years since then and they still haven't produced a final prototype.
This stuff is complicated, but it's hard for me to believe that they couldn't have produced a retooled shuttle with newer innovations in 20 years time. At very least they ought to have been able to redo the controls and keep the same basic design. It's complicated, but hardly new territory like it was when they built the first shuttles.
Contrary to your statement the internet doesn't just self heal, as long as you take down the correct bit of infrastructure somebody has to go out and fix it. Moreover they have to recognize that something's gone wrong and that can take time if the damage is subtle enough.
Beyond that, you need people to go out and fix the connectivity to a particular region. Sure the internet at large just routes around it, but I can't imagine that even the hawks in the DoD are suggesting that we take the entire net down, most likely they'll be wanting to remove a country from the net as completely as possible.
Ultimately you don't have to take them off line completely for it to be effective, limiting them to a connection that you can slip propaganda into is quite useful at times. As is reminding the population how tenuously seated the government is.
As opposed to the other nations that are already doing that, just without any formal declaration. I would be very surprised indeed if China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Israel and others weren't already engaging in offensive operations online.
OTOH, why let the likely truth prevent such bigoted trash talk from being posted.
And yet you see traits from GMO showing up in plants in neighboring fields. It's bordering on fraud to then label those resulting fruits and vegetables as non-GMO when they still contain unnatural proteins that are only there because of genetic engineering.
Don't worry, I'm sure they're significantly more clueful about tubes.