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ktsmith
16y ago
Yeah, the scribd link is to an old and now invalid version of the form unfortunately.
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16y ago
The current Form I-9 is five pages. The first three pages contain instructions for completion of the form. Page three contains one paragraph about the paperwork reduction act. Page four is the form, and page five is the list of acceptable d
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16y ago
Google goggles. http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/
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16y ago
Take a close look at the type of response that a guy asking for donations to a reputable charity received before you post this to reddit. Reddit is very fickle and has as many readers from places like 4chan as it does reddit. http://www.re
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16y ago
> Still no. Vigilante activity is by definition illegal, and this behavior is not. You left off the last few words of my comment which stated that it met the definition as you had provided it. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vig
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16y ago
> ... legal transmission of factual information... I would be willing to bet that you'd be very hard pressed to prove that the majority of the reports in a system like this actually contain factual information. When you report a traffic
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16y ago
Very few of them are likely to have launched the app prior to getting in the car as well. So even with the voice entry of the license plate (how accurate is that going to be) you'll still have to get the app open, then pay attention to what
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16y ago
If the intention of sending this information to the DMV and insurance companies rather than law enforcement is designed to effect enforcement of the law via a rise in insurance rates for the offender without involving law enforcement or due
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16y ago
This is VERY different than what your friend is doing. Your friend is reporting these drivers to law enforcement and allowing them to deal with it, and/or allowing your friend to appear before the people he's accusing in court for the purpo
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How is reporting a supposed violation to someones insurance company or the dmv for the purpose or raising their rates without law enforcement involvement or due process being available for the other driver not vigilantism?
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16y ago
If another driver around you is breaking a law dial 911 if it's an emergency (drunken driving) or the non emergency number if it's small (littering). In the first case you should let the police deal with it and in the second you need to be
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16y ago
I can't speak to the most of these pieces of software but things like Norton don't do any good. They don't block ads and they allow you to remove cookies after the fact during their scans but not during sessions so you are still being track
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16y ago
The average user is not sophisticated enough to implement most of the steps you are comparing with a mute button so the comparison isn't really that great. It's more about being a matter of "freedom of choice" for everyone and not just thos
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16y ago
There's probably nothing stopping you from getting these types of deals set up. The problem is that you then go from working on your core business to managing relationships as a lead seller. The novelty of this approach is that RewardLevel
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16y ago
That's the way I interpreted it. It looks like RewardLevel is set up as a broker. They get publishers to install widgets on the sign up forms, that data is then passed to advertisers (the reward offerer) and RewardLevel makes a commission o
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16y ago
After three years of working with an affiliate marketing, lead generation and advertising company I would say that incentivized traffic is the worst kind of traffic. This is after seeing thousands of offers and processing millions of leads.
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16y ago
The conversion rate increase appears to speak to the publisher, ie the company with the landing page being incentivized and not the company offering the reward. According to the tech crunch article the company offering the reward pays the $
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16y ago
You'll find that users only looking for a reward are more than happy to jump through one or two hoops to get their reward. An incentivized user is often no better than no user, especially when the reward is tangible like a gift certificate.
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16y ago
It's all fear mongering, and I would not be surprised if the "enhanced" pat downs are just an intimidation tactic to get people to use the scanners without complaint. The timing of the rollout of the new pat down methodology seems like a re
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16y ago
If I believe the media that this leaked memo might bring attention from the DoJ back onto Google over the anti poaching agreements then the leak and it's contents are bad news. If I'm trusting Google with my data then the termination of the
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16y ago
The memo says: CONFIDENTIAL: INTERNAL ONLY GOOGLERS ONLY (FULL TIME AND PART TIME EMPLOYEES) right at the top. When an employee starts working at google they go to orientation where they get briefed on a lot of things about the company, fil
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16y ago
> The majority of people/groups I see selling Drupal stuff sell themes which I see as legitimate... It takes a lot of work to make a well-written theme It takes an equal amount of time and effort, and in many cases significantly more, t
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16y ago
Drupal is also licensed under the GPL and there is also a thriving community selling commercial drupal plugins and themes. The code that constitutes a derivative work of drupal must be licensed GPL and the rest can be distributed under what
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16y ago
To be clear, you may still charge for the PHP code it however must be distributed under the GPL license and no additional restrictions may be made. If maxfoundry is distributing the entire package as GPL (including images, js, css) then the
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16y ago
Someone has already made it available as a PDF. blog post: http://irr.posterous.com/netflixs-transition-to-high-availab... direct download link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/irr/1OaUyyUq9eF2...
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> simply because it turns the teacher's day into a drudgery. Those words were put into my mouth by yummyfajitas. My complaint with DI is that it focuses on repetition and memorization rather than comprehension. It's great that a child c
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These are absolutely huge issues. The school my wife formerly taught at received Title II funds to provide breakfast and dinner (in addition to the free and reduced lunch program) to 100% of the students at the school due to the 95% poverty
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16y ago
I really like the idea of thematic schools. Locally we have a charter school that is college prep with a focus on science ( http://coralacademy.org/ ) and it's a great school. We also have two charter schools that focus on bilingual instruc
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Direct instruction papers almost universally focus on test scores and not comprehension which is a serious issue. It's great that test scores shoot up at schools that use direct instruction but it'd be even better if the kids actually under
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Some school districts aren't moving towards this methodology even though that's what's being pushed at the national level. The district my wife teaches in doesn't do this however the school she's stuck at this year is doing it to an extreme
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