In a criminal case, the "other side" is always the government (the state or the federal), so everyone has already paid their legal fees through taxes. If the defendant in a criminal case cannot afford an attorney, one is also provided by the state.
"I have a shoe box full of pictures that prove I will never be President" - Jon Stewart
Everybody has done stuff wrong (in the elected-leaders-shouldn't-smoke-crack-with-hookers sense of the word). Unfortunately, the focus is placed on the less important wrong stuff (e.g. smoking crack with hookers) far more than the more important wrong stuff (e.g. accepting millions of dollars in campaign donations in exchange for letting a swimming pool manufacturer bulldoze a free medical clinic).
I guess from now on, it's obligatory to use Gore's Nobel Prize as "evidence" that he knows what he's talking about The fact that his documentary made millions of dollars is enough proof already. Climate change is real because the market says so.
All of our whiz-bang tanks, planes, and nukes sure are making us win that war in Iraq. They (well, other than the nukes) sure did help the United States win the war in Iraq. What they don't help win is a fight against insurgents using essentially guerrilla tactics. If the US government actually felt threatened by a revolution, I would wager money on them using any means necessary to keep themselves in power.
I sincerely doubt people are so stupid that they are posting on the internet the private things they only want one or two close friends/family to know... You don't know many people, do you?
I wonder for how long the USA keep this kind of anti-social behavior to other countries up. Unfortunately, for as long as the United States has large piles of bombs. The type of person that behaves this way probably won't stop just because a bunch of other people ask them to, and they'll just blow up anyone that poses a significant threat to their authority.
Also unfortunately, the type of person that doesn't behave this way doesn't have the interest in running for federal office.
and now the only people who have the guns are criminals and the government for the most part. I have several friends that own guns, and they aren't criminals or part of the government. The government, however, owns tanks, planes, and a few nukes, which none of my friends own. The Second Amendment was written at a time when the government had more guns than the general public, but the guns were still pretty much the same on both sides. That is far from today's situation.
Dies after n thousand reads to a particular block. Um, no, a specific block becomes unwritable after n thousand writes, where n is on the order of hundreds to thousands.
What is a sick day? You actually have a limit on how much you can be sick a year? A limit on how much work you can miss, yes. Sick days are normally used for something like a cold. Maybe I have an unusually strong immune system, or I'm just really stubborn, but I think I've only used two sick days this year. For more serious illnesses, employees have short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Of course they can. All they have to do is make their hardware work to a set of common standards. That's why so many different operating systems work on different hardware already, the manufacturers' made there hardware open and follow standards and guidelines. It's pretty simple really the only reason they don't is they are producing a shitty product or they are lazy. There is a 3rd reason that they are deliberately making their hardware uninteroperable but that is another issue. Maybe I'm misreading something, but you seem to be implying that computer retailers (e.g. Dell, HP, Acer) manufacturer their own hardware. Those companies pretty much just assemble components produced by other companies. Sure, you can complain to Dell that they should use Intel wireless chipsets in all of their laptops, but it isn't really Dell's fault that Broadcom is being a bunch of jackasses.
The difference is what's going to be in my inbox when they peek.
The last 15 minutes worth of messages plus a smattering of cruft that hasn't been completely overwritten going back maybe a month if they go digging in the deleted items, backups, etc. I would hope that any decent ISP would have periodic backups of the mail servers, so they probably do have everything you've ever sent or received. Or they can record everything to some special data storage that they have. For that matter, even if you run your own mail server, your ISP could monitor everything that goes across your line. It all comes down to how paranoid (not necessarily unreasonably) you want to be.
Why would anyone consider whether or not something exists when there is no evidence to suggest that there is such a thing in the first place? Because there was no observable explanation for a large number of phenomena, and humans tend to be uncomfortable with the unexplainable. Everyone, including atheists, believe in God; atheists just don't draw God as an old man with a long white beard. Everyone believes that something created the universe, since we obviously wouldn't be here otherwise. For many of the more scientifically-minded, the creator of the universe is a few mathematical equations and random chance. For people that can't handle the idea that the universe exists "just because", there's a need to personify the rules that govern the universe.
Since Jesus was apparently not an historical figure why do people keep thinking about such silly questions? Last I heard, Jesus was a historical figure. You can certainly claim that he never walked on water, but that doesn't mean that the man never existed.
When I was a deejay ('cept when I was a radio deejay, and even then it was public radio so not as big of a deal there), I didn't pay any royalties for my performance.... If you didn't pay royalties, the company you worked for did. If you were self-employed, consider yourself lucky that you weren't caught. Getting sued because customers might be able to hear the radio that the employees have in a back room in your store is a pretty borderline case, but if you're a DJ, where your only reason for being around is to play other people's music for a crowd, I can pretty much guarantee that you'd lose a court case.
And how could we go about getting proof... hmmm... maybe... how about a lawsuit? Isn't that what they're for - a group of people have a strong suspicion of foul play and would like to know if it indeed happened as they believe and if there is a legal remedy for it. You must be new here. Welcome to the United States.
Employers often circumvent discrimination litigation here by forcing us to sign "at-will' employment agreements before getting hired. In many states, that's a law, not an employment agreement that you're "forced to sign". And it works both ways; you can be fired at any time for any or no reason (excepting specific reasons set by law, such as gender and race), and you can quit at any time for any or no reason.
That page is pretty lacking in anything truly informative. I can only speak from experience for one state (Maine) where I routinely worked with (a.k.a. babysat) teenagers, but I had almost entirely 15-year-olds working for me. They had to get a work permit (I believe from their home city/school district), but we hired quite a few.
The point he is making, which I concur with since I too am a rather succesful in the realm of IT member of the older-fart generation, is that the ability to recall useless trivia from memory is not a criterion for selecting useful employees, but a method of screening for "snotty nosed kids" as he put it...
So yes, if that are Google's "choice and criteria" then the lawsuit is quite justified indeed. Wouldn't that also mean that a requirement of "10+ years experience" is age discrimination because it prevents a 25-year-old from getting the job? In fact, an experience requirement could be arguably worse, since nothing actually prevents a 60-year-old applicant from knowing how to write search algorithms, while it's pretty much impossible for a 25-year-old to have 15 years of professional experience.
Then again, I seem to recall reading a study where it was found that monkeys who engage in sex often are less aggressive than those who don't. So maybe it should be mandated that politicians get laid at least thrice per week (once per day if they have nukes) ? I guess that does explain quite a bit about Bill Clinton...
I just ordered a Dellbuntu laptop for my girlfriend, and if you at least go by the specs, it's not a very crappy machine. It has a Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz (I think the fastest option they have is 2.0 GHz), 2 GB of memory, and a 160 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. The only part I wish was better was the display, which is only 14", but I can get a 19" LCD monitor fairly cheap if she needs it (her laptop stays on her desk most of the time anyway). The total cost was about $1000 after a bit of a discount for giving them my old university email address.
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In a criminal case, the "other side" is always the government (the state or the federal), so everyone has already paid their legal fees through taxes. If the defendant in a criminal case cannot afford an attorney, one is also provided by the state.
"I have a shoe box full of pictures that prove I will never be President" - Jon Stewart
Everybody has done stuff wrong (in the elected-leaders-shouldn't-smoke-crack-with-hookers sense of the word). Unfortunately, the focus is placed on the less important wrong stuff (e.g. smoking crack with hookers) far more than the more important wrong stuff (e.g. accepting millions of dollars in campaign donations in exchange for letting a swimming pool manufacturer bulldoze a free medical clinic).
Also unfortunately, the type of person that doesn't behave this way doesn't have the interest in running for federal office.
For some reason, I still think Billerica is worse than Worcester.
I don't understand your point. They don't mention Exchange once in this article.
I don't understand your point. They don't mention Internet Explorer once in this article.- Put your hands behind your head
- Put your head between your knees
- Kiss your ass goodbye
Sorry, there is no ??? or Profit.The last 15 minutes worth of messages plus a smattering of cruft that hasn't been completely overwritten going back maybe a month if they go digging in the deleted items, backups, etc. I would hope that any decent ISP would have periodic backups of the mail servers, so they probably do have everything you've ever sent or received. Or they can record everything to some special data storage that they have. For that matter, even if you run your own mail server, your ISP could monitor everything that goes across your line. It all comes down to how paranoid (not necessarily unreasonably) you want to be.
That page is pretty lacking in anything truly informative. I can only speak from experience for one state (Maine) where I routinely worked with (a.k.a. babysat) teenagers, but I had almost entirely 15-year-olds working for me. They had to get a work permit (I believe from their home city/school district), but we hired quite a few.
So yes, if that are Google's "choice and criteria" then the lawsuit is quite justified indeed. Wouldn't that also mean that a requirement of "10+ years experience" is age discrimination because it prevents a 25-year-old from getting the job? In fact, an experience requirement could be arguably worse, since nothing actually prevents a 60-year-old applicant from knowing how to write search algorithms, while it's pretty much impossible for a 25-year-old to have 15 years of professional experience.
I just ordered a Dellbuntu laptop for my girlfriend, and if you at least go by the specs, it's not a very crappy machine. It has a Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz (I think the fastest option they have is 2.0 GHz), 2 GB of memory, and a 160 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. The only part I wish was better was the display, which is only 14", but I can get a 19" LCD monitor fairly cheap if she needs it (her laptop stays on her desk most of the time anyway). The total cost was about $1000 after a bit of a discount for giving them my old university email address.