I don't have a problem with the "reality" shows but I do mind that they push out quality shows.

I agree that the reality shows in a large part exist because of the lower cost. But even cheaper shows would not succeed without viewers. These shows offer something that the Wii also offers, competition. They are a group activity. People are always talking about these shows around the lunch room at my work. Who's good, who's bad, who's evil... it makes it easy for the viewers to talk about the show with others. It's like football for people who don't like sports.

My main complaint is that with all the money I pay through cable subscriptions plus 20 minutes per hour in the form of commercials and they still have such garbage TV. With that kind investment per viewer there should be no reason they cannot have good television shows.

That is an excellent argument to industry on why they need to shorten copyright terms. There is good money to be made in producing works that are outside copyright. This might not mean that everything out there is going to be printed, but there would be a financial incentive for quality works to be printed.

I actually think that chains like Walmart and Target, or Amazon even moreso, should be leading the campaign. Think of all the money the distribution chains could make from pushing their own copies of public domain works.

My brother and I were having this conversation just the other day. Disney may 'believe' it is in their best interests if no one else has access to their materials. In reality, Disney is a victim of the beast it has created. Admittedly, Disney is doing great at raking in the dough from it's old movies that were good. But what have they done that's any good lately? Princess and the Frog? Eh, I guess so. But they aren't churning out grade A winners. They'll still get an audience because they are Disney for sure.

But what Disney needs is an original-ish idea or to build on something more current. They've hobbled themselves on two counts. On one hand they've stifled creativity or at least the production of new works. And, then they've limited themselves with their copyright extensions from being able to freely borrow from the new works that do get made (because they'll have to wait another century at which point they won't be current-ish ideas).

Disney has become the best example of why copyright no longer benefits industry... stagnant.

two thousand and 10 = 2000.10 according to my 5th grade math teacher.
two-thousand ten = 2010. You need the hyphen if you're going to be a true grammar nazi.

I'll second that for UrT. Admittedly, the walljumps that are fun as can be are not terribly realistic, but the teamwork is critical, as is strategy. Spawn-killing noobs? Protect your base or die in it I say. I think that's pretty realistic. The recoil and reload times as well as bleeding are realistic enough to push real strategy beyond pray and spray. OK, probably not a very realistic damage chart. But the fact that you have a choice after being shot of either taking care of your wounds or continuing to bleed out while you keep shooting is one of the reasons I love this game.

I'll suggest another MS solution, just build your own database. Because of my personal scenario I have few options for software. Access is already installed at my workplace so I just built a database for jobs. Recurring stuff just goes in my Calendar. But anything new coming in that is a project to a quick task goes in my database.

A form makes a convenient view to record who the job is for, what kind of job it is, any special tags you want to assign the job, and you have choices for what boxes you want for different types of data. Do you want to record the updates on the project/job? Do you want to record when you received the job and when you finished? I find 4 slots for milestones/sub-goals is plenty for me. You could add a date for the milestones if you wanted to.

This all makes it easy to view only unfinished jobs, or certain types of tasks, or to run a report by milestone dates.

Prior to using Access I just had odds and ends here and there and it was too hard to track. One note wouldn't be a good solution for me because many of my tasks are quick, but I still need to record them. Using OneNote would not be as convenient, nor as easy to turn into an end of year report detailing how time was spent.

You say these inequalities linger into the future, but you've done nothing to describe how they linger. The lack of female representatives cannot be due to inequalities since 1920, almost a century ago, when females gained equality in voting power.

You are merely reinforcing the original poster's argument that the what may have happened a century ago (before suffrage) has nothing to do with today's politics in which women wield a majority of voting power.

Amen to that. The blurring of work/personal life is something that management loves because they get 24/7 employees that see no problem with doing work for free. But then when employees display casual behavior at work (jeans/tshirts, inappropriate language, flirting, surfing facebook) the bosses get all in a tizzy. They have created their own monster here by blurring that line between personal life and work.

I was salary in an industry that was not well protected by labor laws. I did take work home and work late, but my bosses realized it that I did great work and did extra work and they rewarded me appropriately. Now I have a new boss, less recognition, and hourly pay. And you better believe it that when I'm asked to do an extra job I make it clear that it's overtime. The downside is my pay is less. The upside is that my time is even more valuable.

Second that. Zero space for storage for existing equipment. Definitely no storage space for broken equipment. With current replacement costs vs repair? If it's broke it's gone. Either to proper disposal or in my garage until I get a chance to take it out there on my own time.

Why? Why do you have to draw the line somewhere? You are talking about a line where some adults get to tell other adults what material is safe for them to see?

I care. But I was busy counting the words in the article.

Seriously, this guy is epic. But I don't know if I would have burned that bridge. It sounds like he was told that the previous work was going to be paid for if the deal worked out, which it didn't. Rather than saying no I think I would have asked for money up front, including enough to justify hours lost on the other project that didn't pan out.
I mean, if this guy were to do the work without cash up front he'd be a noob. There's just not enough information there to say if he threw away a paying job or mocked some imbecile that was just wasting his time.

I make the mistake all the time of thinking most people are so stupid. And then I realize that if it's most people, then they aren't stupid... they are average. And if half the population is dumber than that... well, there will always be work for someone above the 50th. The most important skills are valuable to any employer.

I'm about to be looking myself. 7 years in and I've tripled my beginning salary. At the end of year 2 had two bosses fighting over who got to keep me. Got a new boss who wants her own person in there and they've messed with my pay to get me out.

I'm not too worried. I wasn't even trained for this job when I came in. Within a year my bosses were coming to me asking me the questions. Within 2 years they were fighting over having me exclusively. Within 3 years they were asking me to tell them how to respond to data on customers and product. By year 4 there were people at the head office calling me for advice and asking how I was making things work that were completely stalled at other sites. There's plenty of opportunity for a smart kid who pays attention and makes their boss look good.

Of course the real BCC need is in companies that haven't cracked down on internal spam. "Here's a funny joke!", "Here's a picture of a cute kitten that does funny things at work!", "Here's a brighten your Friday email!".

And of course they get forwarded 10 times around the company, harvesting more names every time until they float out of the intranet to be caught by spammers in a variety of ways.

Plenty of arguments in this post are talking about kids being able to run and play. But this is not the case described in the post. P.E. is not unstructured play time in which a student gets the chance to set his own limits according to how he feels.

The P.E. teacher will determine the activity and will most likely be telling Johnny to keep (skipping rope, doing jumping jacks, 5 more pushups). The teacher is unable to monitor if the child is outside of a safe pulse range and most kids couldn't tell you either. Partly because of the math involved which includes checking your resting pulse.

Schools are starting to figure out that if Johnny needs a waiver and a physical to voluntarily compete in track after school then they are certainly liable if something happens to Johnny while he is involuntarily participating in athletic training directed by the coach during gym class. Both are physically strenuous activities being directed by a teacher/coach that is simultaneously trying to supervise around 30 other kids. And that teacher/coach has absolutely no way of knowing if the child is in good enough shape to participate or when they child has hit their limit.

School has longer hours than it used to. Homework is long. And parents work more which means parents have the kids in daycare instead of playing in the backyard after school. These kids are in as bad of shape as we adults are. Monitoring heart rates is kind of smart.

On the other side, it sounds like the school is pretty much admitting some liability on their part... knowledge that the students will have different limits of how much exercize is safe. If they aren't going to buy these for every kid they can pretty much plan on being sued by the parents of the kid who didn't have one and "was too tired to do well in class after gym".