Comment So... EU sales tax at 3.9%? ... (Score 1) 253
... that would pretty much sum up the announcement!
... that would pretty much sum up the announcement!
...let me reiterate this:
* so in a country with a liberal gun ownership regime, choosing your own method for ordering lenses has to be government-controlled?
So, what's the original problem we were trying to solve?!
bollocks. Yes, that.
Any security organization which relies on a single individual's action or inaction to remain in good standing is simply fairytale.
Every good process which involves a human in the loop, should always ensure that at least one more is present to enforce check-and-balance objectives.
There is a good reason why all commercial flights have two pilots as a default.
Let me state this: when you see management pointing one single downstream individual for such an event, there are at least TWO levels of management at fault.
Salvation Army? here you go:
http://www.arrl.org/news/salva...
First things first: I'm an Eur Ing certified Engineer (practicing and whatever) and hope that people become more conscious about what the fuss is about.
* Society does not (and should not) grant exclusive professional titles and rights for fun, it does so because it protects citizens' life(-state) and property.
I guess we would all hope society continues to do so: Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers are meant to help human life.
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In this particular case, there is no much struggle to consider that this gentleman comes with a case worthy of discussion and he should be heard.
If he is registered engineer or not, that's irrelevant per se. The technical case needs to be discussed regardless and I personally believe/bet he has a point.
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Furthermore, under certain circumstances he could be qualified to be called Engineer - it seems not so in Oregon - and the following is to be examined:
https://www.usaopps.com/govern...
In that, you may observe that an Oregon address is used as base for "Engineering Services", under his name; oops, that _may_ be regulated!
It IS his responsibility to ensure that he is complying with the local law - there is simply no excuse for that, if he is advertising engineering services.
fi. building code changes from place to place, there is no excuse for not adhering to it!
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This is obviously a "negotiation" that went out of hand from both sides;
the language below appears appropriate and respectful -not abnormal of a regulatory authority- however between the lines there is some confrontation:
https://lintvkoin.files.wordpr...
Hey, that's not how to build bridges - pun intended!
The case also highlights that the engineering community could benefit from some norms about how to solicit feedback from both licensed engineers and the wider public, and be held accountable, if there are omissions; there will be something to learn out of all this process.
fi. regular car drivers have plenty to confess about near-misses, which COULD and SHOULD shape the opinions within formal traffic engineering bodies.
The discussion is going to be interesting and it's great this takes publicity, because it will force some healthy debate.
So, let's not be too quick to circumvent the lawyers and judges, they are specialists under a protected profession, exactly for that kind of thing
I am a night owl (I go to sleep about the time you wake up
btw. I have written the Linux Coffee-Howto - but this is purely incidental: it's about how to *make* coffee, not how to *drink* it!
wow, this is super interesting.
iff it proves to be the case that the same event causes G.W. & G.R.B observations and there is a relationship that connects the speed of the two arrivals,
like in an earthquake's P&S waves, this is a whole new tool to trace events in the cosmos, as they occur. Combining with an extra handful of observations points,
it would be possible to easily find the source point via triangulation, at distances which are mind-glowing (pun intended!). Good luck with this - literally!
... to troll together straight in the source?!
Yes, THIS.
"Sorry, my memory has failed me. What are you going to do? will you fire me?
That clause is so ridiculous, that this kind of response would make even the judge chuckle with content!
fyi. I've done both EA & sysadmin roles at different times.
This should be the norm for a EA position, who acts more as a consultant in relation to stakeholders' needs.
You may ask for your own isolated playground if you need so but, what exactly do you need root access for in this role?
Why exactly skip the, intentionally slower, "sudo" step?
Open Source licenses sometimes happen to be lengthy legal texts, which take a lawyer to get through and even then not sure. Not good.
From the brief ones, BSD & MIT are the ones which are both short and tried over time. And best of all, they don't limit YOU about future code usage.
The BSD suffers from fragmentation [x-clause for x in 2..4], therefor MIT wins.
Sometimes, it might be beneficial to call it MIT/GPL, to make it clear to GPL folks that you really mean to be GPL-friendly.
This is a good example of what happens when a market is totally unregulated:
* big fish eats small fish; Interestingly, small fish here are the banks, and even smaller fish are the consumers
The remedy to this situation may be to force insurance costs across all transacting parties, so that there is an incentive for liability and correct behaviour.
Otherwise, what we have here is banks passing down the risks to consumers, who are little to not able to react and avoid their troubles.
Or, you can hope that one day the banks will automatically fix the problem. Oh, boy.
Laissez-faire, in the wild financial west, anyone?!
The eye pupil is known to exhibit interesting behaviour at times,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
one notable being photic reflex (which also affects a quarter of a population)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
IMHO, human vision is still incompletely understood at whole population (global) level,
with all sorts of exceptions and special trade-off cases being documented:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://discovermagazine.com/20... ### check this one!
Finally, let's not forget, that it is well known that manly colour vocabulary is 4-bit, while females have true colour sets
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
http://io9.com/5919311/some-wo...
https://www.google.be/search?r...
Last but not least: make sure you see the image of the OP in fractional ways (say, top 10th of the image),
along with another person that sees it in the alternative mode. You may come up with surprises.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." -- Karl, as he stepped behind the computer to reboot it, during a FAT
