That's actually part of the Getting Things Done mentality from David Allen. Its kinda easy to do stuff like machine shop work for 8 hours because its essentially a "crank widgets" type of job. You get there in the morning, you have a pile of stuff. You do your stuff, and most of it is repetitive work. At the end of the day, you have a concrete idea of how productive you were; you have a pile of widgets that you cranked, and can say you did this much work. You then go home, and don't really have to think about what you did that day.
I'm not trying to bag on manual labor workers here, and when I say the job is "easier", I don't mean to imply that machining isn't hard work. Just that its easier on the mental stress.
No. I'll agree with you about the coffee and the smoking, but the guy going hang gliding on the company dime was most likely not working. He was just a bastard trying to game the system, and get paid for doing nothing.
Sounds like you're better off. A boss not realizing an engineer's attachment to his coffee source? I can't imagine he displayed much competency in other aspects of the business.
Of course you wouldn't complain, you never had it in the first place. Once you've worked for a place that supplies it, you start to get used to it, and when they take it away, it really sucks.
I know its much better to still have a job and no perks like this than to keep the perks and have people laid off. Still, getting rid of this stuff is going to decrease morale, and usually they don't come back, even when times are good.
That's probably because you're still small enough to actually care about your lower level employees. Still, as a CEO, you shouldn't be posting on./. You should be too busy to actually RTFM and post; your secretary should be doing that for you.
Trying someone in absentia is pretty underhanded, and does deprive the person of the right to face their accuser. Now if he was tried that way because the French refused to extradite him before, then that's a slightly different situation.
Don't even do that. T-Mobile now has plans specifically designed for people who are bringing their own phones, and don't need the subsidized phone. They're about $10/month cheaper than the plans with the subsidized phone, and no contract.
Shouldn't this fall under changing the contract? You are now locked into using Bing as your search provider, which is a restriction that was not present when you originally signed the contract, which means that it has changed. You should be able to terminate ETF-free, although it'll definitely take some fighting to do so if you're the first.
Except that with the SFLC, they typically don't ask for monetary compensation when going after violators. If you come into compliance with the license, which you should have done before, then they leave you alone, and you don't have to pay damages, or remove your product from the market. Everybody wins.
Nintendo might, but Microsoft and Xbox Live don't.
Besides, Nintendo got that way by being the first major console to come about after the Great Video Game Crash of the mid-80s. The Atari generation of consoles didn't have any kind of standards/quality checking, and that led to shit like E.T. coming out.
Of course, to get to that point (where it never existed), that means that someone has to have been caught under it, and successfully appealed their case before the Courts, all the way up to the SCOTUS if need be, and they need to agree that it is contrary.
He means that ignorance of the law is not a defense. Accidentally downloading porn instead of Stargate isn't really ignorance, its just that, an accident. Unless the name of the torrent was something like XXX.Stargate.BeastialityPorn-[XVID].avi.
Also, I'm usually in favor of honesty in all things, but trying to get on a jury is one of those instances where I wouldn't mind if you fudged things a little. Not too much, but enough to say, "I don't know what jury nullification is," or, "I think I could apply the death penalty if it was warranted."
Except he's not denying them on the grounds of "national security." The FOIA gives two reasons to deny a request: The first is national security, and the other is foreign policy. Guess which one international trade agreements fall under.
How in the hell could copyright have anything whatever to do with national security?
It doesn't. The part of the response to the FOIA request says it can't be released due to reasons of National Security OR Foreign Policy. As in {N.S. | F.P.}. I'm pretty sure its the latter.
Now I'm not happy that these negotiations are so tightly under wraps, but I kinda understand. However, I damn well had better be able to read the treaty, and be given sufficient time to voice my opinion on it to my Representatives/Senators, before they put it to a vote. Ideally, they would release a current working draft of the treaty every so often ( perhaps every time they go on break) that I could comment on.
I think a couple groups, like Public Knowledge, and either the Center for Democracy and Technology (or maybe the EFF, but I doubt it) are allowed, and are bound by NDA, but the presence of those two two groups is somewhat dwarfed by the dozens of representatives from the MAFIAA members.
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I would assume he can't change energy companies for the same reason he probably can't change ISPs: Lack of Competition.
That's actually part of the Getting Things Done mentality from David Allen. Its kinda easy to do stuff like machine shop work for 8 hours because its essentially a "crank widgets" type of job. You get there in the morning, you have a pile of stuff. You do your stuff, and most of it is repetitive work. At the end of the day, you have a concrete idea of how productive you were; you have a pile of widgets that you cranked, and can say you did this much work. You then go home, and don't really have to think about what you did that day.
I'm not trying to bag on manual labor workers here, and when I say the job is "easier", I don't mean to imply that machining isn't hard work. Just that its easier on the mental stress.
No. I'll agree with you about the coffee and the smoking, but the guy going hang gliding on the company dime was most likely not working. He was just a bastard trying to game the system, and get paid for doing nothing.
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Sounds like you're better off. A boss not realizing an engineer's attachment to his coffee source? I can't imagine he displayed much competency in other aspects of the business.
Of course you wouldn't complain, you never had it in the first place. Once you've worked for a place that supplies it, you start to get used to it, and when they take it away, it really sucks.
I know its much better to still have a job and no perks like this than to keep the perks and have people laid off. Still, getting rid of this stuff is going to decrease morale, and usually they don't come back, even when times are good.
That's probably because you're still small enough to actually care about your lower level employees. Still, as a CEO, you shouldn't be posting on ./. You should be too busy to actually RTFM and post; your secretary should be doing that for you.
Ummmm, Satelite hasn't had the local channel blackout restriction in years.
Trying someone in absentia is pretty underhanded, and does deprive the person of the right to face their accuser. Now if he was tried that way because the French refused to extradite him before, then that's a slightly different situation.
Don't even do that. T-Mobile now has plans specifically designed for people who are bringing their own phones, and don't need the subsidized phone. They're about $10/month cheaper than the plans with the subsidized phone, and no contract.
Shouldn't this fall under changing the contract? You are now locked into using Bing as your search provider, which is a restriction that was not present when you originally signed the contract, which means that it has changed. You should be able to terminate ETF-free, although it'll definitely take some fighting to do so if you're the first.
Except that Republicans controlled Congress for most of Clinton's term, and for all but the tail end of Bush's term.
there are a lot of companies that make laptops and laptop batteries.
How many companies are selling the end consumer Dell Adamo laptop batteries.
True, but at $1M, he really only needs to sell one copy :-p
Except that with the SFLC, they typically don't ask for monetary compensation when going after violators. If you come into compliance with the license, which you should have done before, then they leave you alone, and you don't have to pay damages, or remove your product from the market. Everybody wins.
They were involved in creation of the Acronym rule.
Nintendo might, but Microsoft and Xbox Live don't.
Besides, Nintendo got that way by being the first major console to come about after the Great Video Game Crash of the mid-80s. The Atari generation of consoles didn't have any kind of standards/quality checking, and that led to shit like E.T. coming out.
There is much more to a job than money. If you have a shit job, and you really hate it, it will tend to show in the other aspects of your life.
Of course, to get to that point (where it never existed), that means that someone has to have been caught under it, and successfully appealed their case before the Courts, all the way up to the SCOTUS if need be, and they need to agree that it is contrary.
He means that ignorance of the law is not a defense. Accidentally downloading porn instead of Stargate isn't really ignorance, its just that, an accident. Unless the name of the torrent was something like XXX.Stargate.BeastialityPorn-[XVID].avi.
Also, I'm usually in favor of honesty in all things, but trying to get on a jury is one of those instances where I wouldn't mind if you fudged things a little. Not too much, but enough to say, "I don't know what jury nullification is," or, "I think I could apply the death penalty if it was warranted."
Except he's not denying them on the grounds of "national security." The FOIA gives two reasons to deny a request: The first is national security, and the other is foreign policy. Guess which one international trade agreements fall under.
How in the hell could copyright have anything whatever to do with national security?
It doesn't. The part of the response to the FOIA request says it can't be released due to reasons of National Security OR Foreign Policy. As in {N.S. | F.P.}. I'm pretty sure its the latter.
Now I'm not happy that these negotiations are so tightly under wraps, but I kinda understand. However, I damn well had better be able to read the treaty, and be given sufficient time to voice my opinion on it to my Representatives/Senators, before they put it to a vote. Ideally, they would release a current working draft of the treaty every so often ( perhaps every time they go on break) that I could comment on.
Ahh, yes. The somewhat lesser known, but still dangerous Balls of Damocles.
I think a couple groups, like Public Knowledge, and either the Center for Democracy and Technology (or maybe the EFF, but I doubt it) are allowed, and are bound by NDA, but the presence of those two two groups is somewhat dwarfed by the dozens of representatives from the MAFIAA members.
If a Douche Bag doesn't actually act like a Douche Bag to anyone, are they really a Douche Bag?