My father-in-law is a truck driver. He drives a car hauler around the midwest delivering cars. He was also a union rep for a while. He shares stories every once in a while about drivers that have gotten off that baffle me. Here's a quick one:
One of the drivers on the crew was out doing his delivery, but he had gone missing for several days. He had decided to stop somewhere between here and there, take up a hotel room and go on a substance binge. There was definately alcohol, and I don't remember the details, but there was talk about drugs as well. He was immediately fired by the company.
The union stepped in shortly after his firing and had my father in law join in the fight to get this loser reinstated. Their argument was that since he had parked his vehicle when he went on his spree, he hadn't done any harm to the company. He got his job back.
Not exactly first hand experience of unions failing, but I think it's close enough to get a taste of what unions do.
I just remembered another one that is first hand. I work in government IT. There is a government union here, and I have seen them come to the rescue for crap employees. We have a guy that has been hot-potatoed around the building, because frankly he's a waste of space. Our group was the last one to take him, and as a result we are stuck with him. Appraisal time came around, and the boss lady gave him a bad review. He deserved it, he probably deserved worse. He went to the union and filed a complaint. Within the next week his review had been changed to a positive one.
I've also seen people with seniority but no skill set complain that another person got a promotion before them, and actually GOT the promotion that they didn't warrant. This one scares the shit out of me because people line up to start bitching when I get promoted. I'm younger than everyone and have less seniority, but I love tech and I love programming and it shows in the work that I do.
If I lose my promotion because some schmuck thinks he rates it more than I do and the union decides to help him out(I'm not union)... that'll hit as close to home as you can hit.
You poor naive soul. Every woman stops giving it up once you've gotten married.
And while we're generalizing, every man that takes a wife or even a girlfriend has to divert energy away from what they want to attending to her needs seriously altering your life. There's also a vigorous sucking in the trouser area that occurs - unfortunately it quickly moves from where you want to somewhere in your wallet.
It can actually save you a lot of grief to pay with/carry cash. I've experienced on at least a handful of occasions where if the only form of payment you had was a card you were SOL. For example, once at a rural gas station after I had pumped my gas I discovered that the connection was down for whatever reason. They didn't have a backup carbon paper swiper either, the poor souls who only had a card were left to work out payment while I put down my cash and went on my merry way.
Another less inconvenient example, I was at the grocery store and for some reason my bank wasn't taking transactions. We tried my cards and my wifes cards before we gave up and left.
My point is that while the majority of times everything will be up, and everything will be running, there are those times where we must fall back on what works without power and wires. Those times are much less painful if you are prepared.
Maybe I'm reading your post in the wrong tone, but it's coming off with a lot more conviction than I'm willing to muster.
Its not just a possible outcome, it was reality up until my city banned smoking in all bars, restraunts and other businesses.
I would hope that you could at least concede that it is possible that smoke free establishments can and do exist without a smoking ban, as I concede that it is possible that every single place could decide to provide smoking sections. I think that may be what set the tone for me... not sure.
Alas, I do not own any establishment. Which is the case of most people.
I wasn't suggesting that you should "roll your own" establishment if you didn't like smoking ones. My point was simply that there are most likely folks with pre-existing establishments that share your beliefs, so strongly that they run a smoke free operation. I suppose it was something of an addition to the first thought about there being smoke free places sans-ban.
It seems foreign to me that you would consider someone smoking in your general vicinity as an attack. What's the maxim - don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by x. X in this could be any number of things, stupidity, cluelessness, or inconsideration. I can only imagine that this strong feeling comes from the harm the smoke may cause you, which brings me to clarify another statement I made.
If it's the secondhand smoke issue... I guess maybe it's that our viewpoints differ on the threat. If you find yourself bathed in smoke on a frequent basis, I could see where you might be harmed, but we suck in so much pollution and crap just walking on the side of a busy road.
So we're already breathing in so many toxins one more won't hurt?
That was not my point again... I apologize for not explaining myself well. I simply meant that we intake and filter out tons of toxins a day, and no real discernable harm comes from a good bit of it. I may be uninformed, but I lean towards the belief that an hour of exposure to smoke will do little or no damage to a human body. I hope that clears up both my point, and the reasoning behind it.
Its always bothered me being in a smoke filled room; sometimes to the point where I had to leave because I was made physically ill from it. You literally could not see the door from across the other end of the pool hall / bar because the smoke was so thick.
That too would bother me, and would take a finger away from my tally. I'd probably not go there.
You don't understand because you once were a smoker..... I think you'll have a hard time understanding this at all, being an ex-smoker.
I'd hoped that I would be able to understand your point of view. I understand that you have a very low tolerance for people smoking around you which is perfectly fine, I suppose I was curious ~why~ you lacked the tolerance, and that may boil down to the fact that you just plain don't like it... which is fine too!
I agree that what you suggest is a possible outcome. It could also be possible that folks as adamant as you are about smokers in their establishment would make their place completely smoke free. I'm in a city that's hasn't (yet) mandated all establishments be non-smoking, and I've noticed some are smoke free, which would suggest that the entire world may not be shut off to you and those who are offended by smoking.
I don't understand however is why people are so adamant about the issue. I am an ex-smoker, and as a result I think I'm more inclined to notice smoke - some part of my addiction still perks up when I smell it. I can count the times on one hand(with fingers left over) that smokers in a private establishment have been so offensive that it was bothersome.
If it's the secondhand smoke issue... I guess maybe it's that our viewpoints differ on the threat. If you find yourself bathed in smoke on a frequent basis, I could see where you might be harmed, but we suck in so much pollution and crap just walking on the side of a busy road.
I'm not trying to flame or even argue, just offering a differing viewpoint and trying to understand yours more.
What's really sad is that this hardware may not be coming from nationals working menial tasks on the base. Some of that lost hardware could just as easily be coming from the troops themselves.
I spent some time in the military, and did a tour overseas. I had a short stint in the comm center, which requires a minimum secret clearance just to get into the main room because we recieved and routed classified messages. A foreign civilian would never be allowed to set foot in that room. We got a single new machine which was a big deal for us because we were running nasty green screen things, and playing dos based dopewars to kill downtime. The new machine was broken within a week, and was found to be missing the processor.
Turns out one of my friends(go figure) had stolen it and sold it to some foreign civilian out in town. That was a MAJOR security breach considering they even bash the monitors that they get rid of with sledgehammers a few times before they send them out of the room.
Hopefully they understand that this is a reality as well, and don't go all willy nilly on the civilians working for a living.
That's why the word extortion keeps popping up. All RIAA has to do is level an accusation, and basically you can either pay out your ass in court, or pay a few grand to avoid the whole ordeal - guilt doesn't even factor in.
All you need to enjoy the same priviledges is some copyrighted material, a freaking army of lawyers, and millions of dollars at your disposal!
All the RIAA has to do is send a letter to your ISP saying that they believe you have infringed on their copyrights, and they must comply with their requests for your information as per DMCA. To do otherwise could financially damage your ISP, as they would have no legal leg to stand on if they refuse, and could also be held liable for your alleged P2P misdeeds.
"The researchers, from North Carolina's Wake Forest University, have carried out seven transplants, and in some the organ is working well years later."
It appears that "some" of the patients bodies have accepted the organ and seem to be doing well years after the transplant. Of course, some could be two, and the other five could have turned inside out.
Chances are that the people taking out the trash are working for a company contracted by the government, and wouldn't have any kind of computing equipment on site, much less email. Now, those not carrying firearms and live in a cubicle farm would likely be a part of the "secure internal e-mail system". Such a system may seem backward from a corporate policy point of view, but I think it would make sense to have most of your employees on an internal system with no way in or out into the wild. Especially in an environment like the FBI.
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My father-in-law is a truck driver. He drives a car hauler around the midwest delivering cars. He was also a union rep for a while. He shares stories every once in a while about drivers that have gotten off that baffle me. Here's a quick one:
One of the drivers on the crew was out doing his delivery, but he had gone missing for several days. He had decided to stop somewhere between here and there, take up a hotel room and go on a substance binge. There was definately alcohol, and I don't remember the details, but there was talk about drugs as well. He was immediately fired by the company.
The union stepped in shortly after his firing and had my father in law join in the fight to get this loser reinstated. Their argument was that since he had parked his vehicle when he went on his spree, he hadn't done any harm to the company. He got his job back.
Not exactly first hand experience of unions failing, but I think it's close enough to get a taste of what unions do.
I just remembered another one that is first hand. I work in government IT. There is a government union here, and I have seen them come to the rescue for crap employees. We have a guy that has been hot-potatoed around the building, because frankly he's a waste of space. Our group was the last one to take him, and as a result we are stuck with him. Appraisal time came around, and the boss lady gave him a bad review. He deserved it, he probably deserved worse. He went to the union and filed a complaint. Within the next week his review had been changed to a positive one.
I've also seen people with seniority but no skill set complain that another person got a promotion before them, and actually GOT the promotion that they didn't warrant. This one scares the shit out of me because people line up to start bitching when I get promoted. I'm younger than everyone and have less seniority, but I love tech and I love programming and it shows in the work that I do.
If I lose my promotion because some schmuck thinks he rates it more than I do and the union decides to help him out(I'm not union)... that'll hit as close to home as you can hit.
You poor naive soul. Every woman stops giving it up once you've gotten married.
And while we're generalizing, every man that takes a wife or even a girlfriend has to divert energy away from what they want to attending to her needs seriously altering your life. There's also a vigorous sucking in the trouser area that occurs - unfortunately it quickly moves from where you want to somewhere in your wallet.
It can actually save you a lot of grief to pay with/carry cash. I've experienced on at least a handful of occasions where if the only form of payment you had was a card you were SOL. For example, once at a rural gas station after I had pumped my gas I discovered that the connection was down for whatever reason. They didn't have a backup carbon paper swiper either, the poor souls who only had a card were left to work out payment while I put down my cash and went on my merry way.
Another less inconvenient example, I was at the grocery store and for some reason my bank wasn't taking transactions. We tried my cards and my wifes cards before we gave up and left.
My point is that while the majority of times everything will be up, and everything will be running, there are those times where we must fall back on what works without power and wires. Those times are much less painful if you are prepared.
Maybe I'm reading your post in the wrong tone, but it's coming off with a lot more conviction than I'm willing to muster.
.... I think you'll have a hard time understanding this at all, being an ex-smoker.
Its not just a possible outcome, it was reality up until my city banned smoking in all bars, restraunts and other businesses.
I would hope that you could at least concede that it is possible that smoke free establishments can and do exist without a smoking ban, as I concede that it is possible that every single place could decide to provide smoking sections. I think that may be what set the tone for me... not sure.
Alas, I do not own any establishment. Which is the case of most people.
I wasn't suggesting that you should "roll your own" establishment if you didn't like smoking ones. My point was simply that there are most likely folks with pre-existing establishments that share your beliefs, so strongly that they run a smoke free operation. I suppose it was something of an addition to the first thought about there being smoke free places sans-ban.
It seems foreign to me that you would consider someone smoking in your general vicinity as an attack. What's the maxim - don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by x. X in this could be any number of things, stupidity, cluelessness, or inconsideration. I can only imagine that this strong feeling comes from the harm the smoke may cause you, which brings me to clarify another statement I made.
If it's the secondhand smoke issue... I guess maybe it's that our viewpoints differ on the threat. If you find yourself bathed in smoke on a frequent basis, I could see where you might be harmed, but we suck in so much pollution and crap just walking on the side of a busy road.
So we're already breathing in so many toxins one more won't hurt?
That was not my point again... I apologize for not explaining myself well. I simply meant that we intake and filter out tons of toxins a day, and no real discernable harm comes from a good bit of it. I may be uninformed, but I lean towards the belief that an hour of exposure to smoke will do little or no damage to a human body. I hope that clears up both my point, and the reasoning behind it.
Its always bothered me being in a smoke filled room; sometimes to the point where I had to leave because I was made physically ill from it. You literally could not see the door from across the other end of the pool hall / bar because the smoke was so thick.
That too would bother me, and would take a finger away from my tally. I'd probably not go there.
You don't understand because you once were a smoker.
I'd hoped that I would be able to understand your point of view. I understand that you have a very low tolerance for people smoking around you which is perfectly fine, I suppose I was curious ~why~ you lacked the tolerance, and that may boil down to the fact that you just plain don't like it... which is fine too!
I agree that what you suggest is a possible outcome. It could also be possible that folks as adamant as you are about smokers in their establishment would make their place completely smoke free. I'm in a city that's hasn't (yet) mandated all establishments be non-smoking, and I've noticed some are smoke free, which would suggest that the entire world may not be shut off to you and those who are offended by smoking.
I don't understand however is why people are so adamant about the issue. I am an ex-smoker, and as a result I think I'm more inclined to notice smoke - some part of my addiction still perks up when I smell it. I can count the times on one hand(with fingers left over) that smokers in a private establishment have been so offensive that it was bothersome.
If it's the secondhand smoke issue... I guess maybe it's that our viewpoints differ on the threat. If you find yourself bathed in smoke on a frequent basis, I could see where you might be harmed, but we suck in so much pollution and crap just walking on the side of a busy road.
I'm not trying to flame or even argue, just offering a differing viewpoint and trying to understand yours more.
What's really sad is that this hardware may not be coming from nationals working menial tasks on the base. Some of that lost hardware could just as easily be coming from the troops themselves. I spent some time in the military, and did a tour overseas. I had a short stint in the comm center, which requires a minimum secret clearance just to get into the main room because we recieved and routed classified messages. A foreign civilian would never be allowed to set foot in that room. We got a single new machine which was a big deal for us because we were running nasty green screen things, and playing dos based dopewars to kill downtime. The new machine was broken within a week, and was found to be missing the processor. Turns out one of my friends(go figure) had stolen it and sold it to some foreign civilian out in town. That was a MAJOR security breach considering they even bash the monitors that they get rid of with sledgehammers a few times before they send them out of the room. Hopefully they understand that this is a reality as well, and don't go all willy nilly on the civilians working for a living.
That's why the word extortion keeps popping up. All RIAA has to do is level an accusation, and basically you can either pay out your ass in court, or pay a few grand to avoid the whole ordeal - guilt doesn't even factor in.
All you need to enjoy the same priviledges is some copyrighted material, a freaking army of lawyers, and millions of dollars at your disposal!
You're forgetting 4 very important letters:
DMCA
All the RIAA has to do is send a letter to your ISP saying that they believe you have infringed on their copyrights, and they must comply with their requests for your information as per DMCA. To do otherwise could financially damage your ISP, as they would have no legal leg to stand on if they refuse, and could also be held liable for your alleged P2P misdeeds.
From TFA:
"The researchers, from North Carolina's Wake Forest University, have carried out seven transplants, and in some the organ is working well years later."
It appears that "some" of the patients bodies have accepted the organ and seem to be doing well years after the transplant. Of course, some could be two, and the other five could have turned inside out.
Chances are that the people taking out the trash are working for a company contracted by the government, and wouldn't have any kind of computing equipment on site, much less email. Now, those not carrying firearms and live in a cubicle farm would likely be a part of the "secure internal e-mail system". Such a system may seem backward from a corporate policy point of view, but I think it would make sense to have most of your employees on an internal system with no way in or out into the wild. Especially in an environment like the FBI.