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@dkf The proper alternative is to leave things like this up to non-government interest parties, but that's obviously not in the interest of the (job security of the) bureaucrats.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
in Malaysia
even snakes can fly!
But why was not involved in this case?
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The supplier confirmed 74 of their customers had been given compensation cheques with an incorrect payment amount and thanked those who were 'honest' about the error.
The cause of the problem is ridiculous though:
A spokeswoman for Northern Powergrid told MailOnline: 'As soon as we identified the clerical error, which was caused by the electricity meter reference number being incorrectly quoted as the payment sum, we ensured all 74 customers' cheques were stopped so they could not be cashed.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
cheques were stopped so they could not be cashed
I'd love to see them try.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@dkf The proper alternative is to leave things like this up to non-government interest parties, but that's obviously not in the interest of the (job security of the) bureaucrats.
There's no real problem because there's a lot of that happening as well. If government wants to pay for some of the maintenance load it's fine; they are a large organization that uses software for some of its activities.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
cheques were stopped so they could not be cashed
I'd love to see them try.
The checks wouldn't go through; there won't be 150 trillion in the account they'd be paid from. Not by many orders of magnitude.
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Remember that Russian figure skater who, at the age of 15, is already breaking all the records, won a team gold medal at the Olympics and was expected to win more at individual competitions?
Guess what.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Remember that Russian figure skater who, at the age of 15, is already breaking all the records, won a team gold medal at the Olympics and was expected to win more at individual competitions?
Guess what.
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@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.
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Firms with 20 or more employees will be expected to offer their staff the option to "disconnect" after working hours, meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
OK but isn't this something people can do already?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Firms with 20 or more employees will be expected to offer their staff the option to "disconnect" after working hours, meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
OK but isn't this something people can do already?
In free countries.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Firms with 20 or more employees will be expected to offer their staff the option to "disconnect" after working hours, meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
OK but isn't this something people can do already?
In free countries.
¡Viva Somalia!
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Firms with 20 or more employees will be expected to offer their staff the option to "disconnect" after working hours, meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
OK but isn't this something people can do already?
I think most people don't turn their phones off for the night just due to . But if my boss actually called me in the middle of the night, he better have a good reason for it. Or a bonus prepared. I wouldn't stay at a place that bothers people in the middle of the night. Not without paying extra for being available.
One of our marketing people sometimes gets the odd drunken call from Asian customers at odd hours. But he also gets a bonus for sales, so...
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
Hell, I don't respond between 5p and 7a. (well, more like 4p and 7a - and if I wasn't working at home, that morning time would be closer to 9a.)
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I think most people don't turn their phones off for the night just due to .
I am not sure whether current phones still support that feature, but long ago I remember some friends having their phones configured to automatically turn off at some tine in the evening—and then the phone remained off until turned on or I think using it as alarm would make it turn on itself in time to sound that alarm.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Firms with 20 or more employees will be expected to offer their staff the option to "disconnect" after working hours, meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
OK but isn't this something people can do already?
I think most people don't turn their phones off for the night just due to .
Sure, mine's always on but I'd ignore a work call out of hours even on my work phone unless I was on call.
The idea that companies have to be told to give their employees the option to ignore work calls at anti-social hours is baffling.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Firms with 20 or more employees will be expected to offer their staff the option to "disconnect" after working hours, meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
OK but isn't this something people can do already?
Ask people who work for Amazon.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
Hell, I don't respond between 5p and 7a. (well, more like 4p and 7a - and if I wasn't working at home, that morning time would be closer to 9a.)
...yeah, OK, more like 3p and 8:45a...I mean...also 11:10a and 1:30p...look, just send an email and I'll get to it when I get to it.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
The supplier confirmed 74 of their customers had been given compensation cheques with an incorrect payment amount and thanked those who were 'honest' about the error.
The cause of the problem is ridiculous though:
A spokeswoman for Northern Powergrid told MailOnline: 'As soon as we identified the clerical error, which was caused by the electricity meter reference number being incorrectly quoted as the payment sum, we ensured all 74 customers' cheques were stopped so they could not be cashed.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Firms with 20 or more employees will be expected to offer their staff the option to "disconnect" after working hours, meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
OK but isn't this something people can do already?
Ask people who work for Amazon.
Hey, let the market speak for them, commie.
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@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
The medication is viagra, isn't it?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
The idea that companies have to be told to give their employees the option to ignore work calls at anti-social hours is baffling.
Why does your comment remind me of snowploughs? And are the drivers of the same affected by this law? Because that's the one part of the population that should be paid to always be on-call.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
The medication is viagra, isn't it?
You mean Rohypnol?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
The medication is viagra, isn't it?
You mean Rohypnol?
I wanted to mention some ointment applied directly to penis, but I don't know any.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
The medication is viagra, isn't it?
You mean Rohypnol?
I wanted to mention some ointment applied directly to penis, but I don't know any.
Something like this?:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
The medication is viagra, isn't it?
You mean Rohypnol?
I wanted to mention some ointment applied directly to penis, but I don't know any.
Something like this?:
Exactly.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Germany has a law for part-time work since many years. Anyone can ask for a part-time job. If the boss does not react within 6 months, it is deemed accepted.
If the boss is against it, it is his job to prove that your part-time job would cause to big problems for the company.
Four-day week? Pft. Choose which ever model you prefer!
- same colors as , but correctly ordered.
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@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
which somehow ended up inside her.
vomit
really ... that would have been the only transfer method imaginable ... she digested old man vomit ...
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
part-time work
this isn't part-time work ... that exists here too this is 100% of the max allowed work hours (somewhere between 35h and 40h per week) condensed into 4 days.
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Under the measures those that wish to will be able to spread their 38-hour working week over 4 days rather than 5 as is currently the case. Although this would involve them working 9.5 hours, 4 days a week it would mean that they were free 3 days a week rather than two.
The new rules guarantee employees the right to be off-line (not to be disturbed by their employer) outside working hours. This measure is already in place for civil servants that work for federal public services. Employers will not longer be able to expect employees to read or answer e-mails or other messages sent outside working hours. The rule applies to all companies with more than 20 employees.
Note that this doesn't conflict with on call requirements, because then you receive some form of compensation for being available. It mostly means that you can't get sacked/disciplined because you didn't answer outside of regular office hours, a thing that is already defined in most work agreements as the latest time you can start, the time slot you can use for your lunch break and earliest time you can call it quits. If as an employer I want to make sure you are available I would need to implement a duty/on call system with compensations.
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It's time for coffee break. So, here comes an important article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ada0910
"whereas taste plays some role in coffee-drinking behavior, caffeine perception was a larger determinant in the preference for black coffee, black tea, and dark chocolate."
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
It's time for coffee break. So, here comes an important article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ada0910
"whereas taste plays some role in coffee-drinking behavior, caffeine perception was a larger determinant in the preference for black coffee, black tea, and dark chocolate."Interesting. I'm an addict for sugar/sweets/chocolate, but I hate both coffee and dark chocolate.
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unfriends @topspin
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
unfriends @topspin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_1l316ow8
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"Metamates"
It totally is never full cringe when a business comes up with a name for their employees.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
meaning they no longer have to respond to calls or emails between 11pm and 5am.
Hell, I don't respond between 5p and 7a. (well, more like 4p and 7a - and if I wasn't working at home, that morning time would be closer to 9a.)
...yeah, OK, more like 3p and 8:45a...I mean...also 11:10a and 1:30p...look, just send an email and I'll get to it when I get to it.
Since the bot is down...
:thanos.png:
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
"Metamates"
It totally is never full cringe when a business comes up with a name for their employees.
They will be forcefully mated in the hind quarters.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Metamates
Any similiarity to metastases is purely coincidental.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
taste plays some role in coffee-drinking behavior
Yes. It tastes awful; therefore, my behavior is to not drink it.
caffeine perception was a larger determinant in the preference for black coffee, black tea, and dark chocolate.
I don't drink coffee. Reason: taste (On the very few occasions in my life I've tried coffee, it was entirely for caffeine, but it wasn't black coffee; it was adulterated with enormous amounts of sugar and cream/milk, and I still hated the taste.)
I do drink black tea. Reason: taste and caffeine
I do prefer dark chocolate. Reason taste, snobbishness (I tend to eat high-end, premium dark chocolate. Milk chocolate tends (with numerous exceptions) to be made from the lowest-quality cacao.)
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Meanwhile in Germany:
79yo woman stalking a priest: sending him obscene gifts, writing love messages on his car, dancing nude in front of his house...
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@BernieTheBernie
I think I’ve seen this one on House.
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@izzion
well ... it wasn't lupus
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THEIR BIONIC EYES ARE NOW OBSOLETE AND UNSUPPORTED
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark
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@HardwareGeek The problem with black coffee is it has nowhere to hide. So either you like a particular blend, or you don't.
Of course, you might not like any blend and that's fine too.
There are people who don't like cilantro, or chocolate, or passion fruit.
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@Zecc And then it also depends on whether the coffee machine is clean and correctly set. We got a set of (all same) coffee machines at work, and supply of always the same brand of coffee, but sometimes the coffee is OK(ish) and sometimes it tastes like it's burnt.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Getting the word out requires really sustained funding models that are structured a bit differently; I've never heard of anyone getting funded anywhere with a project plan like that.
I can give one example: the Nudge Unit in England. These are behavioral economists who help other government groups to get the public to do something, by tweaking the message sent to the public. So they'd get people to pay their back taxes by adding verbiage to the notices along the lines of "other people are paying their taxes", and it increases the money coming in because people like to go with the herd, and if the herd is paying their taxes, individuals will pay their taxes, too. (It's not 100% effective, but it definitely has some effect.)
As for funding: this group started as a temporary project, and then, as it was successful, its lifetime got extended. I'm not sure if they're permanent now or not, but they've been around for a decade-ish at this point.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
There are people who don't like cilantro,
Yeah, we know all about those people. Don't we, @Karla?
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@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
She was helping her grandfather take his medication, got traces of it on her fingers, and then ingested it when she ate her own food?
*reads other replies* Oh, ew! You guys have filthy minds, you know that?
Vodkatrog response: We knew all along! Vodka make athlete more athletic!