Here is the real-life flying car that's actually practical: fly-skyrunner.com
It's basically a paraglider attached to an all-terrain dune-buggy. Granted, I don't think it's road legal, but this is the way to go if you want to drive a little and then fly a little.

NoteTitle should read "Foreign (greater than) US Workers == Obvious", sorry, been coding today and didn't notice it when I submitted it.

Just a quick list of the top of my head:

• Lower base wage
  • Wages are also taxed differently, taxed less, IIRC there is no SS copay from the employer is there?
• Lower “burden” cost
• Less/No worker rights
• • If they’re trouble, deport them
  • For the most part, the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to non-citizens
  • As an immigrant, that’s what cops/border patrol always tell me anyway
• Ultimately this drives down overall wages in the country

What’s not to like about these programs?

...for the Military Industrial Complex?


Just say'n....


in case you need it....

I blacked out all the trim on my 7, even the BMW logo (blue/white) as black/white, the 740iL badge on the back, black - the distinctive BMW front grille, black - even turned the the trunk release button black - her exterior trim was 100% black.

When I drove it, anyone seeing the large high end sedan and wanted to know what model it was would look to the back right corner to see what model I had, and it being in black, they couldn't tell...if anything, it added to the "mystique" of the car, I had quite a few people come up to me and ask if it was a "special edition" or similar. It had no change on the types of drivers that fsk with you just for "appearing" to be Mr. Moneybags (which is great for LEO, don't forget that) - if anything, it brought more attention to the car, granted, YMMV.

...and I totally get you on that last statement, 7 series parts, even those that were basically the same as a 3 were (lol) 7x more expensive. Whenever I had it in the shop my mechanic would always note the "seven series surcharge" I was incurring just by driving that model. *sigh* Even so, at the time I had a 2hr commute and I wouldn't have traded the luxury of that ride for anything - every car since that one has been a PoC by comparison. Ruined cages for me forever.

Actually, it's quite the opposite, right up to the economic collapse I owned my own business (infosec consultancy for government agencies & T1 infrastructure) and had picked up a Seven Series BMW (which, for their high end +$80K car loses it's value quickly so it becomes affordable to most of us just a few years later) and I found, while driving that "luxury sedan" my LEO experiences were 180 from what they are now, post economic collapse in a beat up ol 95 civic.

• - I never got any "superfluous" tickets (no proof of any documentation, insurance/registration) as, on both occasions, the officer said something along the lines of "people who own these types of cars always have it, no need to prove it sir
• - I was always called "sir" and treated with the utmost respect without exception - even when one officer found a mandible on my console which caused her to step back, put her hand on her service weapon and ask me "what is that?!" it had fallen off as it usually sits on my rear-view mirror as a talisman (ala Roland Deschain)
• - I was found passed out drunk behind the wheel, motor running and wasn't given a ticket but instead the officer called my friend, woke him up and had him come get me (that was a double down of cool cop and that he was only there because some worry wort thought I was a stalker, but instead had left a friends party when it was over & was too drunk to drive so I fell asleep in my car) - but still, in a civic, I'm sure i'd be booked for a DUI for being in the drivers seat w/ the engine running
• - I even crashed it once when I inadvertently turned off the traction control earlier in the day, no ticket, the cop just commiserated with me about what a shame it was to have smashed up such a nice car and that he wasn't "going to add any more to my already bad day"

Conversely, I was driving a VW Rabbit (old) with expired out of state plates, but still within the month they expired (both states - source & destination - allow you to drive the car in the month it expires) and I was pulled out of the car, by two officers *at gun point* (later, according to them, no one had reported anything, but the fact that I was in an old car, with expired plates was very suspicious) they even shouted asking if I had any tattoos, and I said "yes, on my leg" and they replied
"show us"
"I can't do that without dropping my pants officer!"
"drop 'em"
and there I was, pants around my ankles in the parking lot of a 7-11 late at night with two small town cops pointing their guns at me. I *know* they wouldn't have done that had I been driving a BMW 745i - drastically different experiences, all based on the make/model of the car.

Even with the turn of the millennia, the vast majority of hospital systems still run on HL7 (Health Level 7) and MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System aka "M").

HL7 isn't just a standard, but it also describes a protocol used for transmitting patient data which is laughably insecure in the state it was in when I last worked on it in the late 90's. Plain text, no validation, fire/forget, no encryption, no well, no nothing

MUMPS, or M if you prefer, is a programming language designed by the NSA (it must have been, lol, actually it was designed by a couple of Dr's), every variable is global in nature - so if you have an admin token ADMIN, you can set that value anywhere in the running system and it won't care one bit. Rooting M systems is simply a matter of access and knowledge of M.

Oddly, in M, you can also use shorthand, so i == if (IIRC), and it's contextual, so where in a line a value appears determines the values type, so i i i is a valid statement, where each i references a completely different variable/value/object. Insanity at it's best. Here is a great mumps tutorial for those of you that aren't familiar & for those of you who only know "modern" languages, it's a timely Halloween horror show...

(just one example) I wonder if Southern Baptist - of the Fire Brimstone leaning - are seen as "trustworthy" more/less than scientists. I'd wager they are, and I'd double down that it has little to do with how "warm/fuzzy" they come off as.

I'd wager this has much less to do with scientists coming off as "warm/fuzzy" and more to do with most people’s innate distrust of those that deliver either information they don't agree with (or more specifically that doesn't agree with their preconceived notions) or information that makes them feel stupid - when the majority hears about something they are too ignorant to understand, they don't like/trust the person with that idea - but that's just human nature.

While "scientists" do have their problems (journals / peer review circle-jerks / et al) I fear the only way they'll come across as "warm/fuzzy" would be if they "dumb it down" even more and that's not a direction we should be going, as we're already down to -11.

I live in the area and that's going to be a significant change to the landscape. Putting in what will eventually be a high-traffic road into an area (on the 50 side) with people who live there specifically to get away from this sort of thing. It's also going to cut one of the areas where wild Mustangs still roam in half.

...

Speaking of Mustangs, Mustang Ranch will be a big winner here as they will be located just a stones throw from the new Tesla factory....

I broke my back a decade ago and kept working throughout. I built - well, I oversaw as I couldn't move - a custom rig using a wall mount for a small TV that, when inverted could hold a laptop upside down in just the right position over the hospital bed I was in for the next six months.

Since then, being comfortable while working is paramount to my survival - I've searched and searched, but in the end, if you want something that works just right *for you*, you're going to have to either build it from scratch or find something close and customize to fit.

For a recliner, if it's against a wall, you could go the TV mount route and have something that swings out when you need it - otherwise you can build a support on one side - recall that you have a lot of room under the chair for giving the side mount a large footprint so it's stable.

Good luck.

Some companies skirt this rule simply by paying "hourly" employees a salary above $23,600 (per FLSA) then work them 80+ hours a week and call it good. More and more employees, regardless of actual job duties are being paid a salary so they are then "exempt" from any overtime pay, even those that would traditionally qualify under the FLSA & I see this more and more often in the IT sector. If you look at the Computer Employee Exemption - you can make pretty much any IT job fit the bill if you phrase it correctly.

Workers are left with little recourse because:

• They've been exempt at every job they've ever had, so they no know different
• Many - even some of the learned ones - do not know how the FLSA applies to them in this situation
• Everyone around them is expected to work overtime w/out compensation, so it's not unusual.
• Regardless of what job duties they will be doing up to and, frankly, especially those including "non-exempt" duties they are told by management that they are doing "exempt" duties
• They have little real recourse, even if they know they are "non-exempt", unless other co-workers join them in a complaint. Co-workers who are unlikely to do so as:
  • There is little perceived gain and significant risk
  • It is expensive to the point of being cost-prohibitive in order to make a successful claim
  • Any employee who were to be successful would likely find repercussions pertaining to employ-ability later down the road. While not legal to do so above the board, it happens nevertheless (just look at all the wage-fixing and collusion in the valley - you actually think they'll hire someone again, or promote them over a co-worker who didn't sue?)

At the end of the day, LinkedIn is far from an anomaly, it is standard business practice - unless there is a top to bottom review by some third party (I don't know if there is even an entity that would be suited for this sort of endeavor), this practice will continue unabated. We will work more and continue to be paid less than what we earn.

One of the key problems I've run into, not only in regards to ERP, but in general, is that when you outsource all of your development your future is in the hands of someone who doesn't have your companies best interests as their primary concern. Their primary goal is to get paid and to keep their company in the green, the only way they can do that is to, as you noted, keep putting their hands out. It is not in their best interest to produce a system that is self sufficient, it is in their best interest to keep you on the line.

That said, it's not always practical to in-house everything, so a balance needs to be struck - keep the design and some worker bees in-house and then leverage vendors/contractors to spin up extra bodies for build cycles.

Regarding your single point of failure concern - while valid, a properly designed ERP system with redundancies and load balancing should alleviate the core of that problem. Again, balance needs to be struck, while you want a single place to do all of your ERP functions, it doesn't always make sense to have them in one application that has to be customized to within an inch of it's life in order to do everything it needs to do. This needs to be addressed in the design phase to create logical business units that can sit on separate applications that, ex, communicate with the proverbial mothership via an API

I think I may go out and do some drone recon on it this weekend, see what's really going on. As long as I just use my GoPro to record video onboard and LoS for tracking, but don't use my FatShark it's not a drone and it's OK, right FAA?

Quite the contrary, had Gibson included the Roman perspective in "Passion" I would have enjoyed that movie a whole lot more.

Roman Citizen: You taking the chariot out tonight?
Roman Soldier: Yea, me any my cohort are going to do some drive by crucifixions...

Hopefully they'll have plenty of pre-law students filing law suits on 1a grounds, unfair competition and whatever else they can think of as at will be A) good practice for them and, more importantly, B) costly for the property company.