These are the same Walmart employees who think they're worth fifteen bucks an hour?
This is getting off topic, but minimum wage in the US has taken a big hit due to inflation. At the very least if compared to the 1960's the current minimum wage needs to be about $11/hr in order to have the same buying power.
Google "asset forfeiture" and weep.
Reading Stop and seize makes for a scary experience.
This has been done to death in a variety of places. An RTG was not used for many reasons such as mass and availability, balanced off against the science experiments that both probes carried. Rosetta was always slated to do most of the experiments, and the landing of Philae was always an unpredictable event (I've read that a matching set of harpoons kept on Earth for the last 10 years in a vacuum also failed to fire).
But think about it. Add an RTG, which adds mass, which means less science overall, possibly to the point of not including a lander. Not only that, you need to oversize the RTG so that when 10 years of zooming around the solar system are up, that it still has enough juice to do the work you want.
The people who designed Rosetta/Philae are rocket scientists, and I am not second guessing their choices. What they have already achieved is phenomenal, and the science has only just started.
I'd say that on the short term morality is a hindrance. But even if your morally questionable decisions don't cause your startup to implode, would you really want to be part of the kind of company it would become?
Or in the words of Groucho Marx
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
I thought this might be another Haselton story.
Instead it's a diceverticement
This is a Lobster story that is not a dicevertisment!
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Heck, we're not permitted to take pictures of servers in the data center.
I once worked on project in the US that used a bunch of Polish engineers. At the time certain computers were prohibited exports to behind the iron curtain (and this was well before the wall came down). Of course our project used such a particular mini-computer (I think it was a VAX) for doing some compiling that these Polish engineers needed. To assuage the US export control restrictions, this computer was put in a sealed cabinet that the Polish engineers couldn't access.
A short time later one of the engineers was visiting the Smithsonian, and saw that same model computer on display. So he took a photograph of it, printed it out and stuck it to the front of the cabinet at work!
Right, but you generally DO need a reason to deny them unemployment compensation -- they have to be fired for cause and the rules are quite strict.
I'm not denying that
That would actually be the opposite. You're thinking states with at-will employment.
Yeah
It sounds pretty fascist to shitcan someone like that
In a right to work state in the US, you do not need a reason to be fired. (I'm skipping around protected classes here for simplicity)
It is nice to pick international system units, however it would be better to do it right. This should be km/h, not kph.
Do you mean units of km/h like TFA uses?
Phone support techs in faraway lands read scripted lines like "your modem is at end-of-life".
Well I had Comcast inject HTML into my http stream in order to tell me that my DOCSIS 2 modem was not going to be supported and that I needed to upgrade. I got a pop-up appearing when I viewed a non-comcast website, telling me that I had to upgrade (and yes I have a screen cap of that popup)
I believe that they were really hinting that I needed to update my perfectly fine DOCSIS 2 modem to a DOCSIS 3 modem purely for their benefit and were using text like
Your modem will no longer be able to operate on comcast's network
Even though their website says that DOCSIS 2 modems work.
That is going to make for a very large and weird collection of skills.
I assume my email transits the internet in the clear regardless how I send it so I am having a hard time getting angry about this.
For a previous job I was working onsite in a different country to my home office. For what ever reason my boss had pissed me off, so when he said he was going to email details of a salary increase I decided to yank his chain and played the "email isn't secret, and anyone could intercept it" card just to see what hoops he would jump through in order to "securely" send me this "sensitive" data.
His solution was to send me two emails. The first email had a password protected zip file that mentioned that the salary details were inside. The second email stated that the password for the zip file was "the company name backwards". Both emails of course being sent from the company domain. Given how brain-dead his solution was I concluded that I had got my monies worth from that stunt.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
