In at-will employment states, a notice requirement can't be enforced. A lot of things that wind up in boilerplate employment agreements can't be enforced. If too many people knuckle under and feel forced to give notice to quit, we will end up with just the expectation that everyone has to give notice. Unfortunately, enough people are scared of "burning bridges" that this concern is taken seriously. Maybe we need to recover the attitude that we can do whatever we want that is not illegal, and by trial and error find out what works for us. I have both given notice and quit abruptly, and I never saw any good or bad effects from either course. Some of us are not as scared of the results as others, but we can't let ourselves be ruled by the timid.

After tasting the water in Biloxi, New Orleans, Opelousas, Houston, etc, I am sure that the described process is an improvement. They should just leave out the lake water.

1. I don't want to pay for a smart watch.
2. You have to hook it up with your phone, which I don't have.
Otherwise, it sounds great, but I am too cheap to buy and use all that stuff. If someone could show me how to make more than the investment in that stuff, I would go get one today. I got enough fun building horribly ugly HDTV antennas; I don't need to spend any more time on other stuff that might not be as interesting.

Yabbut...yabbut!!! Wouldn't some big company like Target have someone on staff who knows how to firewall off a network just for the HVAC? Huh? Huh?

Someone please tell me what HVAC contractors could possibly need to do on a corporate network. This sounds totally insane. If a company has 74 million people's credit card information on the same network that HVAC contractors can access, something more powerful than flamethrowers are needed to clean up that kind of crazy.

It's called phone support. I worked for a company which, while unnamed here, makes you think of electricity. The phone support we did was for a product which, while unnamed here, makes you think of never leaving the office. At the beginning of the shift, you had to put on the phone headset and sign in to the phone. You couldn't sign in early, and you only had a couple of minutes of grace time if your "watch" was inaccurate by a couple of minutes. Breaks were generated by some computer program and had to be followed exactly. The company which farmed out the phone support function, which while unnamed here, makes you think of something extremely small and cushiony, did not want to pay extra for overtime, so if you didn't sign out of the phone after exactly 8 hours you would get yelled at. If you had to suddenly visit the restroom, you had to track down a shift lead and request to go out of ready, and you were at that person's mercy, depending on call volume or the shift lead's own fear of getting in trouble.
Now tell me if this is a substantial new development.

We have an entire population of drug addicts that have been able to peacefully and apparently blissfully put themselves down for over a century. The account of the death of Socrates seems to indicate that he went quietly although with somewhat more displeasure than most OD'ers. You could hit the streets of any decent sized town and get more expert opinion on lethal injection than seems to be available to the state governments. They have been killing people on the operating table for about the same length of time; I'm sure the attending people would be able to describe how they put their charges under for good. This whole business is looking a bit silly.

I don't even think I have watched a show on ABC since "V." And that one wasn't available the next day anyway, and since I missed them on-air, I never saw the last 2 episodes. And I'm sure I haven't been back to their site since I found out they didn't have the previous day's episodes. I think this devastating occurrence is what convinced me to buy my HDTV capture card.
For some strange reason, all their sports programming got moved to ESPN, so why should anyone watch ABC anyway?

1. The original Motorola cellular mobile phone.
2. Doc's time-traveling train.
3. The kraken.
4. The gold from Fort Knox.
5. Moby Dick.

Lord, Mister Ford, it would be a real event if Jerry Reed could do a song about the Tesla. Now let me go back to my lair for another puff.

FTA, the car owner said she set "the timer" to start charging at midnight. Where is this timer, in the car or on the charger connection? Maybe she is using one of those $4 light timers. Does anyone know if the Tesla can turn on its own charging system at some designated time? For that matter, how does the Tesla know what time it is? The fire department might be familiar with historic causes of fires, but (1) hardly any fireman knows anything about electricity as such, and (2) they could scarcely know anything about garage fires associated with electric cars, since so far we only know of somewhere in the vicinity of one happening.

Used to be you could find piles of old asphalt roofing lying around and you could make flying saucers with it. Demands much more proficiency than Frisbees. 5-1/4 floppies are equally good for this, with the added menace of the sharp corners. 3-1/2 floppies might work too. MFM drives are good targets on the shooting range, and you have the added benefit of erasing sensitive data.

Disaster? Not knowing how to use email could be the start of a renaissance in educational excellence. Maybe she will disconnect the campus networks, too. Wow! students obliged to listen to lectures and read books. Yes we can! Obama is a genius!

Well, that is good luck for you. Here are the gory details: I had just started working for Rois Manufacturing in Philadelphia. They paid me with checks drawn on First Pennsylvania Bank. I dutifully hustled over to the Center City branch before closing time, and presented the check. They told me to get lost, because I didn't have an account there. After a period of fruitless whining, I knuckled under and opened an account with them, and they finally cashed the checks. Now how I was able to get any money to open the account, I am not sure. If I recall correctly, my wife already had an account with them, and I was able to sign the checks over to her, but only after there was enough money in her account to cover the paycheck in case it bounced. To me, what this indicates is a basic unconcern on the part of employers, who just don't want to go to the trouble to find ways to make this situation more helpful to their employees. The attitude seems to be "I gave you a legal pay check, how you get the money from it is your problem. GFY."

I discovered years ago that banks will not honor paychecks drawn on their own banks. They won't cash them unless you have an account with them. Why can't we replace the crack users in prison with these guys?