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by ptaipale 7y ago
Unions are (supposedly) fundamentally democratic organisations also here (Nordics), but they are not obligated by their contracts to defend frivolous cases. (They still do, sometimes, and then they take the flak in the eyes of the public, d
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by ptaipale 7y ago
IMHO, in this kind of a case it's not the employee who gives union a bad rep - it's the union. Why do they actually support this kind of behaviour? (FWIW, it sounds this is actually worse in the US, where the unions are supposedly
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Well, yes, but then, it's always a trade-off. Evacuations are extremely rare. The cost of these trainings would likely prevent a lot more deaths somewhere else (e.g. in training car and heavy vehicle drivers and bicyclists, not to me
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Yes, this was in NZ a few days ago. There are also several cases over recent years where immigration activists have been standing up in a plane when they wanted to stop the deportation of criminals. Result is usually fines (a criminal liabi
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I think perhaps travelers need more training (at least the mental process of checking "what shall I do if we need to evacuate") and perhaps the luggage compartments need to be automatically locked when evacuating. It's hard
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Depends on jurisdiction, but I think in most countries it's a crime to not adhere to aviation safety regulations - including ignoring what the staff tells you to do in an emergency. Smoking in the lavatories, or standing up and refusin
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I look at this from a different angle, and to me the U.S. seems very welcoming to highly-skilled immigrants. They are very well-paid from European point of view, not to mention others, and the society in general is used to absorbing immigra
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by ptaipale 7y ago
When 4,000 people are laid off, it's much more than just this one department that is not worth of funds.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Is there any evidence whatsoever that GM would have considered Hemanth Kappanna an "undesirable"? As far as I know, they hired him after his participation in exposing the VW scandal. If this exposing is what made him "undes
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by ptaipale 7y ago
... unless it is actual violent crime - there the American legal system comes down at perpetrators a lot harder than European ones do.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Did GM lie? I know some people did accuse GM of emission cheating, but haven't heard of any actual proof.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Sorry for typo, fixed.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
My point was that the same is probably the case with many among these 4,000.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
When I saw the NYT headline, it seemed to suggest that the GM engineer was singled out precisely due to helping out in exposing the scandal. But when I read the article, it turns out he's just one out of 4,000 other engineers. We could
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Sure, but I think things like "we can now do one take and then it's phone call o'clock" would set an unnecessary pressure to the performance. That's just me of course.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
For me, when playing/recording, it would really distract me (more than e.g. having a phone in silent mode so that when flow mode ends, I notice I'm hungry and need to wake up to the outside world, I can see who has tried to call).
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by ptaipale 7y ago
This tells perhaps more about the politics of naming causes of death than actual historical causes of death, considering the history of air pollution and smogs in London.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
There was recently a coordinated worldwide campaign which intended to establish a principle that accusatino alone is enough to determine guilt. As a random example, see https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/03/06&#x2F
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Everyone has something to hide. The police will understand that. But if the police are not able to get at all the relevant evidence, it is difficult to investigate.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Again this depends on jurisdiction. Is what you say the case in England?
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I know discussions here are often America-centric, but note that this depends on jurisdiction. E.g. in Sweden, the one selling sex is not a criminal, the one buying is.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I didn't know stickhorses were a thing here in Finland until I went to a harness race event with some relatives who are enthusiasts. I was flabbergasted that the first event of the race evening was a stickhorse start, with dozens of yo
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by ptaipale 7y ago
So, will a site maintainer simply remove the older accounts that have not accessed the site in a while, to keep number of accounts below 100 000?
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Julian Assange has been arrested by MPS(news.met.police.uk)
26 points by ptaipale 8y ago|2 comments
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by ptaipale 8y ago
"Wealth" the government owns is often just "wealth" or "resources" rather than "means of production".
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Not really a problem. A more significant thing is not finding incentive to move to a 2-room apartment after kids have grown up, because regulated price of your 6-room apartment is same as the 2-room would be.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
In addition, it encourages inefficient use of existing housing.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
But lack of scrutiny surely implies lack of real consequences. Anyway, I would say that in terms of consequences, even there corporations face more of them, simply because the public gets to know more.
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by ptaipale 8y ago
Norway is not socialist in the "means of production" sense. The means of production, be it machinery or brains, are privately owned. The government owns assets that are exploited in this production - primarily, the oil fields - bu
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by ptaipale 8y ago
I would say that is hardly true. Corporate America is getting more scrutiny than ever.

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