The article is not remotely about building a sputnik, but it is about how technology in sputnik served similar purposes to things used in the home. Using a baby monitor as a transmitter? a domestic thermostat? a balloon? a mercury thermometer? "4x large batteries"? come on. This sounds like the losing science fair project of a seven year old.
The nice contractor with the bowl of candy on her desk? She can live. The a-hole two cubes down who's always humming or clipping his nail or doing something that really shouldn't be done at work? He can go.
The realize the real victims are the rest of us who suffer the extra traffic on the internet and in our mail boxes, but who is smart enough to check email, play an mp3 file, and have money to lose and yet still be dumb enough to fall for this?
Now if you believe (as I do), that what I described above is contrary to your experience and your nature, then believing in a "soul" or some other agent of "free will" isn't a big leap.
I'm confused. You try to use your belief in "free will" to justify faith in God. But if you're referring to the Judeo-Christian omniscient God, doesn't that preclude the idea of free will? God already knows what you're going to do, so you can't have any real choice in the matter.
It makes as much sense to me as people praying to God to heal the sick or something like that. God creates a universe where a particular ailment afflicts this person at this time, but now God should change the master plan of all existence because it's inconvenient for you?
You believe what you want to believe, but don't try to apply logic to religion.
Minor rant here - why on earth do banks allow random people to WITHDRAWL money from an account with no knowledge other than the account number?
Calm your rant. They don't.
If you read your direct deposit form, you'll see in addition to providing information for the company to put money into your account, you are also giving authorization for the company to remove money from your account to correct over-payment.
In this case the answer is simple. Don't use direct deposit.
If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Oh, karma's gonna burn for that one.
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I think the bigger question is why these (and other) editors love to link to blogs aggregating other blogs posting about articles talking about news, rather than just the original news reports.
Q: Why isn't this modded up to 6?
My fav is when fark links to slashdot links to web log links to drudge links to a network site reporting on a story from the print media.
But, evidently, totally miss the gender-bias inherent in the title.
Yeah, why equate tax collection with the female? Obviously the male tax collector would not waste time browsing and go right to the taxes to be collected.
I ran into this a couple of weeks ago. When the attempt to use update.microsoft.com fails, the "troubleshooter" will direct you to a Knowledge Base article [microsoft.com] that advises you to do the following:
If companies suddenly had to start paying overtime, time clocks would be installed.
FTFY.
I don't view this as a good thing. I've had jobs where I punched a clock. Yes, I got paid for every hour and part there of I was clocked in. Yes, I could punch out at the same time every day. But I also had to punch in by the same time every day--1 minute late is as good as an hour. Same goes for getting back from lunch.
In my current sallaried position, I don't sweat the evenings I stay late as long my boss doesn't hassle me about the mornings I'm a little late or the days I need a long lunch to take care of an errand or two.
And like the parent poster says, you won't start with your current sallary as a 40-hour base and add overtime to that. If you routinely work 60-hr weeks (and the bosses know this) more likely your base will be 2/3 of your current sallary. You'll need to keep up those 60-hr weeks to keep your pay at the same level (not even considering that paid holidays and vacation will be based on an 8-hr day so you'll either lose the overtime you might have worked those days or have to make the time up to keep your pay at the same level.)
If you spend too much time at the office, getting paid overtime isn't going to help you. If your bosses make unrealisitic demands making long overtime necessary, getting paid overtime isn't going to help you. It'll just give you one more thing to complain about. "Man, I wish I was on sallary so I didn't have to punch that clock."
Ahh, parent poster is a Troll, eh? Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard [forbes.com] would probably agree with AC. Is he a troll too?
Yes.
As others have noted, college is a lot like the rest of life--you get out it what you put in. And if you spent 4 (or 5 or 6) years in constant party mode and now feel those year were wasted...isn't it great you now make the most of every day, having that lesson on wasted time? And if you waste your time now as you wasted your time then, that isn't the college's fault. Horse....water...etc.
And if you leave college in debt, you should be ahead of the game, having learned early in your adult life about living within your means. College is cheap. Bentley isn't cheap. But Harvard, MIT, etc. are dirt cheap, for all the tuition assistance they provide. And if you're in that gray area--too rich for aid, too poor for the 10s of thousands for tuition, housing, etc...I don't know about the rest of the world, but the USA is pretty well covered by state colleges and junior/community/county colleges. Dirt cheap. No reason anyone should leave college in debt.
But back to the parent poster's point. Yes, Forbes trolls. (Flamebait if you think they print what they do just to be controversial.) Discussion of politics belongs in a magazine like Forbes in that it may affect the general economy, tax policy, etc. But I canceled my subscription to Forbes when I got tired of the editors ranting about Michael Moore's appearance and weight. Forbes editorials routinely make personal attacks with no bearing on the issues. (Or least they did. I don't read it anymore.)
So, yes, anything from Forbes other than factual financial data may very well be a troll. And if you feel you got little from your college experience, and yet still haven't learned a lesson from not getting more out of college, that's really on you and not the college.
She is very lucky she didn't get shot. You'd have to be insane or a moron to wear something like that to an airport. She got in to MIT though so I vote "insane".
You're right. I'm flying (out of Logan FWIW) next week and plan to show up at the airport wearing nothing but a sign reading, "this is not a bomb."
And I'm not eating any beans between now and then, just to be on the safe side.
(If I wanted to be a troll I could make some comment about how fast the police respond to a 9-volt battery and some wires at the uptown airport, but they never seem to catch the folks with the real guns at the downtown bus stops.)
Are you also the kind of individual who needs a sign next to a hole in an ice sheet saying "caution, water is freezing cold, thus much colder than the industry average of holes in the ice" to keep you from diving in?
No, because the reasonable expectation is the water under a sheet of ice is cold as ice. The reasonable expectation for coffee served at McDonalds is it is ready to drink. The fact of the case is McDonalds served a dangerous product too hot to drink, and they knew it was too hot due to previous injuries.
Suing for profit is fun for the whole family, but in this case the woman just wanted McDonalds to cover her hospital bills.
blaming some company for having a policy you disagree with is bullshit.
Let's just be clear, we're talking about a policy of serving dangerous food that is almost certain to cause injury.
Learn a thing or two about the subject before speaking (or typing)
Question to ask: If you drink home made coffee, do you immediately, right off the coffee machine, pull the pot, pour a cup, and quaff it down? Why, or why not? Ever spill a cup on your toe? Ever complain that it was hot and sue the coffee machine maker for not keeping the temperature lower?? Why or why not?
So if I open an ice cream shop and keep my ice cream at liquid nitrogen temperatures, and you then burn your tongue, you should have no legal recourse? After all, every one knows ice cream is cold. I just keep my ice cream a little colder than usual so it doesn't melt on the way home.
In the famous McDonalds hot coffee case, coffee was served at hotter-than-normal temperatures as a matter of policy. McDonalds claimed this was for folks who didn't drink the coffee right away. McDonalds had been repeatedly warned the coffee was too hot.
And in this case, the system worked. The judgment was for spit responsibility. The fact that the woman held a cup of hot coffee between her legs in a moving car and had a spill is her fault. The fact that the spill did not result in some red skin and minor discomfort, but rather in serious burns requiring skin grafts is McDonalds fault. Again, this was not an isolated incident--they had been warned the coffee was being served too hot.
Also, you take my lack of compassion for the stupid and for those lacking foresight and misunderstand it for lack of "comprehension for subtleties".
Sounds about right. You're saying if I burn myself on something I know to be hot it is entirely my fault. I'm saying you lack "comprehension for subtleties" of burns--there's a difference between a hot beverage that causes a little tingle on the tongue and one that causes 3rd degree burns. There's also a not so subtle difference between something that is not meant to be touched and something that is meant to be touched or ingested.
Coffee is meant to be ingested, so it is reasonable to expect it will be served at a temperature appropriate for that purpose.
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Well, it beats a cup of dirt.
Do I get a pr...er, I mean, would someone get a prize if that person's email made it into the story?
(And sorry about the 'puke' thing. I was having a bad day ;)
The nice contractor with the bowl of candy on her desk? She can live. The a-hole two cubes down who's always humming or clipping his nail or doing something that really shouldn't be done at work? He can go.
The realize the real victims are the rest of us who suffer the extra traffic on the internet and in our mail boxes, but who is smart enough to check email, play an mp3 file, and have money to lose and yet still be dumb enough to fall for this?
This isn't a scam, it's economic darwinism.
I'm confused. You try to use your belief in "free will" to justify faith in God. But if you're referring to the Judeo-Christian omniscient God, doesn't that preclude the idea of free will? God already knows what you're going to do, so you can't have any real choice in the matter.
It makes as much sense to me as people praying to God to heal the sick or something like that. God creates a universe where a particular ailment afflicts this person at this time, but now God should change the master plan of all existence because it's inconvenient for you?
You believe what you want to believe, but don't try to apply logic to religion.
Given the extent to which sound travels in the vacuum of space, I expect the sun is extremely quiet all the time.
Harumph. Let me know when they can see the memo on TPS cover sheets on the desk.
How many VW beetles is that?
Are you sure the system has video RAM? Doesn't built-in video generally share the system RAM?
...for your lady.
First, you get a box. Then you put your data center in the box.
Calm your rant. They don't.
If you read your direct deposit form, you'll see in addition to providing information for the company to put money into your account, you are also giving authorization for the company to remove money from your account to correct over-payment.
In this case the answer is simple. Don't use direct deposit.
If you had posted this yesterday when I had the points, you'd get a +1 insightful.
If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Oh, karma's gonna burn for that one.
Q: Why isn't this modded up to 6?
My fav is when fark links to slashdot links to web log links to drudge links to a network site reporting on a story from the print media.
I agree 110%. But for personal use, it's a way to keep my XP systems patched without installing WGA.
Yeah, why equate tax collection with the female? Obviously the male tax collector would not waste time browsing and go right to the taxes to be collected.
Maybe it's a hunter vs gatherer thing.
Go to http://windizupdate.com/ with a supported (non-IE) browser.
Once that is done, you'll never have to use Microsoft Update again.
That's something you can tell your grandmother over the phone.
FTFY.
I don't view this as a good thing. I've had jobs where I punched a clock. Yes, I got paid for every hour and part there of I was clocked in. Yes, I could punch out at the same time every day. But I also had to punch in by the same time every day--1 minute late is as good as an hour. Same goes for getting back from lunch.
In my current sallaried position, I don't sweat the evenings I stay late as long my boss doesn't hassle me about the mornings I'm a little late or the days I need a long lunch to take care of an errand or two.
And like the parent poster says, you won't start with your current sallary as a 40-hour base and add overtime to that. If you routinely work 60-hr weeks (and the bosses know this) more likely your base will be 2/3 of your current sallary. You'll need to keep up those 60-hr weeks to keep your pay at the same level (not even considering that paid holidays and vacation will be based on an 8-hr day so you'll either lose the overtime you might have worked those days or have to make the time up to keep your pay at the same level.)
If you spend too much time at the office, getting paid overtime isn't going to help you. If your bosses make unrealisitic demands making long overtime necessary, getting paid overtime isn't going to help you. It'll just give you one more thing to complain about. "Man, I wish I was on sallary so I didn't have to punch that clock."
Yes.
As others have noted, college is a lot like the rest of life--you get out it what you put in. And if you spent 4 (or 5 or 6) years in constant party mode and now feel those year were wasted...isn't it great you now make the most of every day, having that lesson on wasted time? And if you waste your time now as you wasted your time then, that isn't the college's fault. Horse....water...etc.
And if you leave college in debt, you should be ahead of the game, having learned early in your adult life about living within your means. College is cheap. Bentley isn't cheap. But Harvard, MIT, etc. are dirt cheap, for all the tuition assistance they provide. And if you're in that gray area--too rich for aid, too poor for the 10s of thousands for tuition, housing, etc...I don't know about the rest of the world, but the USA is pretty well covered by state colleges and junior/community/county colleges. Dirt cheap. No reason anyone should leave college in debt.
But back to the parent poster's point. Yes, Forbes trolls. (Flamebait if you think they print what they do just to be controversial.) Discussion of politics belongs in a magazine like Forbes in that it may affect the general economy, tax policy, etc. But I canceled my subscription to Forbes when I got tired of the editors ranting about Michael Moore's appearance and weight. Forbes editorials routinely make personal attacks with no bearing on the issues. (Or least they did. I don't read it anymore.)
So, yes, anything from Forbes other than factual financial data may very well be a troll. And if you feel you got little from your college experience, and yet still haven't learned a lesson from not getting more out of college, that's really on you and not the college.
You're right. I'm flying (out of Logan FWIW) next week and plan to show up at the airport wearing nothing but a sign reading, "this is not a bomb."
And I'm not eating any beans between now and then, just to be on the safe side.
(If I wanted to be a troll I could make some comment about how fast the police respond to a 9-volt battery and some wires at the uptown airport, but they never seem to catch the folks with the real guns at the downtown bus stops.)
Well said.
Why? Where else would I get my daily allowance of gizzards and chicken feet? =)
No, because the reasonable expectation is the water under a sheet of ice is cold as ice. The reasonable expectation for coffee served at McDonalds is it is ready to drink. The fact of the case is McDonalds served a dangerous product too hot to drink, and they knew it was too hot due to previous injuries.
Suing for profit is fun for the whole family, but in this case the woman just wanted McDonalds to cover her hospital bills.
Let's just be clear, we're talking about a policy of serving dangerous food that is almost certain to cause injury.
So if I open an ice cream shop and keep my ice cream at liquid nitrogen temperatures, and you then burn your tongue, you should have no legal recourse? After all, every one knows ice cream is cold. I just keep my ice cream a little colder than usual so it doesn't melt on the way home.
In the famous McDonalds hot coffee case, coffee was served at hotter-than-normal temperatures as a matter of policy. McDonalds claimed this was for folks who didn't drink the coffee right away. McDonalds had been repeatedly warned the coffee was too hot.
And in this case, the system worked. The judgment was for spit responsibility. The fact that the woman held a cup of hot coffee between her legs in a moving car and had a spill is her fault. The fact that the spill did not result in some red skin and minor discomfort, but rather in serious burns requiring skin grafts is McDonalds fault. Again, this was not an isolated incident--they had been warned the coffee was being served too hot.
Sounds about right. You're saying if I burn myself on something I know to be hot it is entirely my fault. I'm saying you lack "comprehension for subtleties" of burns--there's a difference between a hot beverage that causes a little tingle on the tongue and one that causes 3rd degree burns. There's also a not so subtle difference between something that is not meant to be touched and something that is meant to be touched or ingested.
Coffee is meant to be ingested, so it is reasonable to expect it will be served at a temperature appropriate for that purpose.