While generally true, in Oregon they are only given the power of regulating certain trades and types of engineering.
You can absolutely write words in a non-commercial setting and claim anything, their rules don't (can't) touch that.
All the industry boards like this are full of rednecks in Oregon. It is unlikely they consulted anybody with a clue before issuing the fine. These would be civic engineers with experience mostly in road building.
If you don't think bonuses are given out individually for performance, you shouldn't even be entering the conversation on this planet. Go back to your own Universe and argue about this stuff, you're not even from this one.
Often it just means any "vacation pay" is rolled into your salary, and then actual time off is unpaid. It is just paid time off + flexible scheduling + hyperbole.
This is also why France doesn't process its own voter registration forms, it has them processed in Bulgaria by people who are likely trilingual, but those languages are Bulgarian, English, and German.
And the company is based in Greece. This way very few of the workers rights leak back to the Bulgarian workers, but from the French perspective all the work is being done in the EU so everything is great.
That is actually how all the EU countries can afford to have their documents translated into all the required languages.
Why can western Europe maintain these worker luxuries? Because they have former 2nd world countries in eastern Europe to do a lot of the work!
In the US we like to have regulations that are more honest about who is getting screwed; whoever has a shit job, that is who. Same as in Europe, but without the snooty lies.
It is the same mistake people make in understanding banking.
When you deposit money into a savings account, the bank it taking on a liability. A thing they might have to pay back later! That's why it is a liability. They already got the money, but now they're liable for it. If somebody steals it from their vault, it was stolen from them, not the depositor. Worse, they don't know when you'll ask for it back.
When you borrow money from the bank, they're are receiving an asset. They already risked the money they loaned out; it is gone. You have it now. And they have the loan obligation, which is an asset that they expect to make future profits on.
People get those backwards. There was a famous PDF released by bankers in the UK a few years ago that explained how it works, though. It doesn't work in the simplistic way that it is generally presented to the public, though.
So in the same way, when a business pays you on an annual basis for your time off, and never allows accrual, there is no liability. They pay it out as it is earned, so there is no liability. When they let workers save it from one year to the next, now they have a liability; a thing they've promised to pay out. And they don't know when they will have to pay it out. So the timing of people's vacation plans affects the company's cash flow in unpredictable ways. An employee might accrue a few years of vacation, and then suddenly quit and you have to pay it all out at once. A company might not even have the cash flow to cover that, they might have to take out additional credit or otherwise finance the payout.
And if they set it aside when you earn it, there is no benefit for them compared to just paying it out at that time, but they'd have to keep track of it and protect it, etc.
PTO doesn't create any problems for the international travel situation you discuss. It you get 2 weeks PTO per year and want to take a 4 week vacation every other year, that works fine. The only problem is if the employer has inflexible scheduling. The vacation pay and accrual system shouldn't affect that, it should only be changing the timing of payments.
In the US they don't have to roll it over, they can just pay it out instead. That's the reality behind the low vacation time in the US; workers who get paid vacation time can generally just get paid for that amount of extra time, and they choose the money over the time.
Some workers don't get the pay, usually because the job is low skilled so the workers won't understand or research the workplace rules. Also, they're poor and so often can't afford a lawyer, and worse, there is a cultural dislike for lawyers among the poor so they remain legally disadvantaged even when they have access to a lawyer.
Not exactly "convertible" but I have the thinkpad T560 with multitouch, and it can open flat on a desk. If you flip the screen, you can use it like a tablet on a table, though obviously as a fullsize it doesn't work to hold it one hand like a tablet.
I don't hear anybody say good things about any of the true convertibles other than the Thinkpad Yoga and the MS Surface. Most of the manufacturers seem to be waiting to see if this is even a real niche.
As a linux user, I have to agree. 20 years ago I could go to a neighborhood computer store and buy a wide variety of input devices, and now in the future it is somehow hard to even find an ergonomic keyboard for sale. One of the few companies still making a decent mid-price keyboard is Microsoft!
Their wireless USB is standard and painless. I can plug the dongle into an Android tablet with an OTG cable and it Just Works, even if the keyboard predates Android!
I wouldn't touch Windows with a 10 foot pole, not even with you pushing, but they do make really good input hardware.
Totally hilarious in this case, where the complaint is that they didn't include a keyboard. Exactly the level of business competence I'd expect from Microsoft in the modern era.
Surface in general is popular hardware with linux users, too.
You skipped over the part where you're focused on this one guy that you probably haven't worked with and don't know which decisions he's even making. You're obsessed with him, and disgruntled. Adding more blah-blah doesn't make it any more reasonable.
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What makes you people this has any effect on anything?
IME getting access to records has a direct effect on if you have access to the records. What part are you having trouble with?
While generally true, in Oregon they are only given the power of regulating certain trades and types of engineering.
You can absolutely write words in a non-commercial setting and claim anything, their rules don't (can't) touch that.
All the industry boards like this are full of rednecks in Oregon. It is unlikely they consulted anybody with a clue before issuing the fine. These would be civic engineers with experience mostly in road building.
No, it only even tries to guarantee it the same OS that was supposed to be installed.
If it was running windows, I still wouldn't trust it.
If you don't think bonuses are given out individually for performance, you shouldn't even be entering the conversation on this planet. Go back to your own Universe and argue about this stuff, you're not even from this one.
Who would run cat5 into the dark places for us if not our friends the rats?
It sounds like you tried to game your status, and got played.
I have hundreds of spare cars in case mine breaks down.
About a dozen of them are at a Hertz location 2 blocks away. Dozens more are at the Enterprise lot a couple blocks past that.
I also keep a dozens of taxis at the ready.
I call it "city life."
And it is all free if I don't have to use it!
Often it just means any "vacation pay" is rolled into your salary, and then actual time off is unpaid. It is just paid time off + flexible scheduling + hyperbole.
This is also why France doesn't process its own voter registration forms, it has them processed in Bulgaria by people who are likely trilingual, but those languages are Bulgarian, English, and German.
And the company is based in Greece. This way very few of the workers rights leak back to the Bulgarian workers, but from the French perspective all the work is being done in the EU so everything is great.
That is actually how all the EU countries can afford to have their documents translated into all the required languages.
Why can western Europe maintain these worker luxuries? Because they have former 2nd world countries in eastern Europe to do a lot of the work!
In the US we like to have regulations that are more honest about who is getting screwed; whoever has a shit job, that is who. Same as in Europe, but without the snooty lies.
It is the same mistake people make in understanding banking.
When you deposit money into a savings account, the bank it taking on a liability. A thing they might have to pay back later! That's why it is a liability. They already got the money, but now they're liable for it. If somebody steals it from their vault, it was stolen from them, not the depositor. Worse, they don't know when you'll ask for it back.
When you borrow money from the bank, they're are receiving an asset. They already risked the money they loaned out; it is gone. You have it now. And they have the loan obligation, which is an asset that they expect to make future profits on.
People get those backwards. There was a famous PDF released by bankers in the UK a few years ago that explained how it works, though. It doesn't work in the simplistic way that it is generally presented to the public, though.
So in the same way, when a business pays you on an annual basis for your time off, and never allows accrual, there is no liability. They pay it out as it is earned, so there is no liability. When they let workers save it from one year to the next, now they have a liability; a thing they've promised to pay out. And they don't know when they will have to pay it out. So the timing of people's vacation plans affects the company's cash flow in unpredictable ways. An employee might accrue a few years of vacation, and then suddenly quit and you have to pay it all out at once. A company might not even have the cash flow to cover that, they might have to take out additional credit or otherwise finance the payout.
And if they set it aside when you earn it, there is no benefit for them compared to just paying it out at that time, but they'd have to keep track of it and protect it, etc.
PTO doesn't create any problems for the international travel situation you discuss. It you get 2 weeks PTO per year and want to take a 4 week vacation every other year, that works fine. The only problem is if the employer has inflexible scheduling. The vacation pay and accrual system shouldn't affect that, it should only be changing the timing of payments.
If they use the bear minimum, at least they had time for some camping!
Where I am most people stick to the bare minimum.
In the US they don't have to roll it over, they can just pay it out instead. That's the reality behind the low vacation time in the US; workers who get paid vacation time can generally just get paid for that amount of extra time, and they choose the money over the time.
Some workers don't get the pay, usually because the job is low skilled so the workers won't understand or research the workplace rules. Also, they're poor and so often can't afford a lawyer, and worse, there is a cultural dislike for lawyers among the poor so they remain legally disadvantaged even when they have access to a lawyer.
IME most users call the box on the floor under the desktop the "CPU."
If you have "legacy applications" that require Windows 10, my advice: Get a better legacy.
Aren't you a little old to still be in school?
I think they started allowing adults into Universities around 2500 BCE, but there is always a holdout wanting to go back to the Good Old Days.
Well, is it compatible with Lotus Notes?
What's the use case where you would want to circumvent Secure Boot instead of turning it off?
Not exactly "convertible" but I have the thinkpad T560 with multitouch, and it can open flat on a desk. If you flip the screen, you can use it like a tablet on a table, though obviously as a fullsize it doesn't work to hold it one hand like a tablet.
I don't hear anybody say good things about any of the true convertibles other than the Thinkpad Yoga and the MS Surface. Most of the manufacturers seem to be waiting to see if this is even a real niche.
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As a linux user, I have to agree. 20 years ago I could go to a neighborhood computer store and buy a wide variety of input devices, and now in the future it is somehow hard to even find an ergonomic keyboard for sale. One of the few companies still making a decent mid-price keyboard is Microsoft!
Their wireless USB is standard and painless. I can plug the dongle into an Android tablet with an OTG cable and it Just Works, even if the keyboard predates Android!
I wouldn't touch Windows with a 10 foot pole, not even with you pushing, but they do make really good input hardware.
Totally hilarious in this case, where the complaint is that they didn't include a keyboard. Exactly the level of business competence I'd expect from Microsoft in the modern era.
Surface in general is popular hardware with linux users, too.
You skipped over the part where you're focused on this one guy that you probably haven't worked with and don't know which decisions he's even making. You're obsessed with him, and disgruntled. Adding more blah-blah doesn't make it any more reasonable.
What? You've never heard of LOC/day?
I stopped reading The Daily WTF years ago, but it appears they are still going.
Not for total compensation, only for base pay. That won't address a disparity, because the most variable part of pay is bonuses.
Try harder. Think of it as an IQ test.