You'd think they could manage the weather better too. I won't see squat because I'm on the East coast. I think we get more precipitation around here than Seattle anymore. I didn't place an order for this!
It's just plain thoughtless and inconsiderate!
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if I could find an American lawyer who would actually take my case if I said I wanted to sue Accuweather . ;-p

I've had an account for a few years now (under my real name, darn it), and have posted all of two or three times; the only reason I joined was for a contest.. and I won. (I got a free Kymera wand out of the deal, totally worth it)
Other than that, I just don't see much call for it.

Beat me to it. These things are probably cyclic: Massive breakthrough(s), rapid acceleration of learning and application, long period of plateau; breakthrough, etc..
Or so I hope. Every learned person in history that has said, "man has learned everything he is going to", or "that is just ridiculous/impossible" should know better, and were proven wrong time and again. The next plateau could last a long time, decades, centuries, even a millennia.. but eventually, there will be a breakthrough, maybe how to manipulate gravity, and the the process repeats.

My thoughts exactly; Otherwise, mathematics proves you can get something from absolutely nothing - IOW, magic. . In the words of Grace Slick, logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead. If this were truly the case, it'd be as supernatural as the God explanation.
For there to be "fluctuations" there has to be something to actually fluctuate.

Well, since this law just passed (?), there are no useful statistics on it just yet.
If they have people 24/7 with those being "normal" hours for some, then yeah, they should be okay; but if the corporations start getting stingy(er) and start laying off people, or people quit, and the boss expects others to pick up the workload, then they'll have a problem.. at least, that's how they operate around here!).
Presumably this law would probably prevent that, so I guess that's a good thing!

You forgot, "All old white men are evil clueless bigoted racist rich bastards who dance on the backs of the poor, play golf, and retire to Florida"
I hear quite a lot of that around here.

No, that's all wrong.. it's a delicious olfactory delight, especially if one has ingested buffalo wings and heavy ale the night before..

This needs to be pointed out a little more around here, I think. Those who are mired in their particular brand of ideology are quick to denounce other people's real world experiences which disagree with their viewpoint as merely, "anecdotal", and they wave it off as nothing. Sometimes..just sometimes, they have a point, but overall it tends to be overused as an excuse to ignore street reality.

That's good for workers in the short term, it really is ridiculous how much work intrudes into our personal lives anymore, to where a company can practically own you; I can somewhat relate, having recently been made to go "on call" at work but where we're not really "on call" but expected to actively monitor 40 sites for a week, with a 4 week rotation among employees (and compensation for this new duty.. what's that? Only happens if we actually engage an issue, we're not paid for just the monitoring) I love how an employer can just change the terms of your employment, but it's not like I can walk in and declare I'm now going to make $8,000 more a year. BTW, we have a union, they don't do squat.. they just hit you for dues.
OTOH, this will ultimately put French businesses at a serious disadvantage in competing with other countrys' businesses, as their response time to an issue may be greatly reduced.
Rather than outright ban it, maybe just some solid restrictions on say, 11pm to 6am as off limits.. or alternating weeks or something ...and provide overtime pay, definitely.

I highly doubt any savings would get passed down to the consumer from the likes of an Insurance company.

or when your personal beliefs mean you think you can clearly and simply label someone as a "bigot" because their opinion or beliefs simply don't align with your own, and punish them for it.
Slapping a label on someone and reducing them to a one dimensional object is convenient, but doesn't make it accurate or fair Is someone still a "bigot" if they just feel that homosexuality is unnatural or weird, but have no problem or discriminatory feelings towards other minority groups, be it blacks, women, latinos, asians, etc.. (or even whites for that matter)? I think there's a difference between being "bigoted" towards one small faction, and just being a bigot, along the lines of Archie Bunker.
People are entitled to their personal beliefs no matter what you think and that's their private business, it shouldn't affect their hiring or firing unless they're behavior openly affects their work or coworkers; they have a right to feel or think as they do, just not a right to act on them (besides, people don't really control gut feelings, just as you don't decide whether you prefer men or women, or redheads or blonds, somehow you just like what you like, and don't what you don't).
Before the wild slashdot accusations fly, no, I am not religious. No, I don't believe it's a "sin". But I don't like seeing discrimination used as a tool against something that is subjective.

Dude, seriously, why so keen to throw insults around at anyone who doesn't fit your strict world image of the universe according to geekoid? No, he doesn't have a small mind for pointing out the classical cultural staple that tough machismo guys can drink, Hollywood's been depicting that image for decades.
In any case, 5.5% IS, on the whole, on the light side, even by human standards. The English ales I like are are least 7, 8 %, or higher. Wine is nearly double that. I would expect an alien race that enjoys fights to the death for glory and eats raw blood worms (Gagh) to also drink a mean brew, not banana flavored piss water.

Wasn't the joke how Worf would drink Prune juice and declare it a "Warrior's drink"? That pointed to an obvious dichotomy there, everyone found that funny exactly because they expected a Klingon warrior to drink a "tough" drink.

Why would any moron have modded this as a troll? I simply pointed out the parallel that there's a market for the AV service sector and they fill it, and that you can either just accept that, or be paranoid about it, just the same as the credit monitoring business. I made no judgement of my own. Looks like I made an enemy somewhere recently.

I'd agree with that. Homeopathy & Holistic /= Alternative Medicine, necessarily.
But I think the most idiotic thing is the dilution principle of homeopathy which follows that a solution becomes stronger or as stong as the original by diluting the piss out of it, as though water molecules somehow "absorb" the healing properties of whatever was originally mixed in merely by vigorous agitation (which is what most loons suggest). I have a somewhat open mind towards things like acupuncture, (never tried it though), but nothing says "schuckster" like someone who waters something down to .001% and then tries to pass it off as effective as the original. If that were the case, a light beer should be every bit as inebriating as the non light version..! Hell, I'd buy a liter of gin, add 10 gallons of water, shake it up really good and profit.

..that Anti Virus corporations such as Symantec and McAfee benefit from virus and worm outbreaks. Make of that what you will, you either believe there's a conspiracy or that they're just filling a needed niche. *shrug*