I know it's not the same use. But having had that insult thrown at me by adults and classmates when I was growing up gives me my right to not like the word.
The Irish don't like Mick Jagger, the Hispanics don't like Spic 'n Span, the Italians don't like Guinea pigs nor Doo Wop music. Many people grew up being called names. A word has no power over you unless you allow it to.
Apple is not a competitor to this company It's not going to create a company Use their experience in battery development I think fuelcell for everything I including powering everything data centers spaceship headquarters Sooooo Poaching is not illegal How then to get around No compete contracts ?? Has Apple learned from Samsung that legal wheels grind slowly And by the time something happens it's too late for the other company
This will all be used internally never sold to other companies
Then why doesn't apple buy the company
Hmmmmm maybe they tried but china blocked it
Which court system would hear this ???
Apple is not going to expose itself to failure (oooops exclude sapphire)
The issue here is Apple allowed the Mujeeb Ijaz to go out and recruit others from his old company. It sounds like Apple and A123 had a NDA and a no-poaching agreement in place. This guy can pretty much do what he wants however, Apple and all its employee are bound by the agreements including the new hire. I curious if Mujeeb Ijaz being the CTO had a separate agreement with A123 usually people at that level are bared from trying to recruit individual from company. It would not surprise me Mujeeb Ijaz is not also hit with a lawsuit as well.
If there was in fact an agreement in place Apple could be in trouble due to what this guy was doing, I am surprised Apple HR did not realize what was happening and did not put a stop to it, they had to be suspicious when they all 4 people in 1 month from the same company being hired.
Keep in mind it not illegal to target a particular companies employees as long as you do not have agreements in place baring hiring those people for some period of time. I work for a company and we sent a tour bus to a competitor companies campus with a big sign on it saying we want to hire them and would interview and hire them on the spot in the tour bus. This was back in the day of the Dot Com era. We got nasty letters form the competitor telling us we are not allow to do this, but we ignored them and kept doing it. They legally could not stop us. I know they began to threaten employees if they saw them get on the bus their job would be at risk.
Hmmmm...even in this context I still don't like the word.
Some Neo-nazis spray painted a swastika on the wall of a Hindu temple, not realizing the swastika was a symbol of prosperity and life in Hinduism. Context is everything.
Some Neo-nazis spray painted a swastika on the wall of a Hindu temple, not realizing the swastika was a symbol of prosperity and life in Hinduism. Context is everything.
The Irish don't like Mick Jagger, the Hispanics don't like Spic 'n Span, the Italians don't like Guinea pigs nor Doo Wop music. Many people grew up being called names. A word has no power over you unless you allow it to.
You don't like "chink"? As in "A chink in his armor"? Possibly because you think it originates from an ethnic slur. But it doesn't. It's derived from the word "chine" which is a narrow ravine created by running water. Just because a word sounds like it might be of an offensive origin does not grant you the privilege of taking offense at it. It's just a homonym. Next thing, you'll be taking offense at the word "niggardly".
There's a story of a professor getting fired for using that word because the public was incensed thinking he was being racist. I wish I were making that up.
Hmmmm...even in this context I still don't like the word.
It's perfectly fine if you don't want to like the way particular letters are formed or the phonemes that make up the sound of a word, but are you saying that no one should use the word chink to mean "a narrow opening or crack, typically one that admits light" because you are only able to make a derogative association with the spelling and/or phoneme grouping?
There's a wonderful invention called the full stop (or period). It makes reading easier.
You might like to try it some time.
I recently read how the period is being used less and less by the Internet literati. Language is also becoming less colorful. It's sad really.
Indeed.
There's an irony in that social media is probably contributing to the decimation of one of the most expressive modes of communication. We don't read, talk or write enough.
I would like a revival of varied insults. People these days have such a limited vocabulary of curses. Ideally, of course, one would never resort to such words, but there are so many more interesting ways of saying f***. Asterix is a good example of varied insults and language, I think. Truly, we live in a very dull age when it comes to language. So bland and sterile. I try to mix things up a little, but unless everyone does, it becomes hard to sustain.
The other defendants in the suit (the employees who moved to apple) signed non-compete (won't work for a competitor), non-disclosure (won't divulge secrets), and non-solicitation (won't recruit from the old company) agreements. I believe the suit is claiming that Apple motivated them to break all three.
Non-compete (and possibly non-solicitation) is hard to enforce in many jurisdictions (e.g. California), but the suit is in Massachusetts, where, presumably, they can be enforced.
I kind of hope it's thrown out. Non-compete clauses are one of the most ridiculous things, intended to lock employees to a job and limit future leverage as long as they can be considered valuable to an employer. NDAs are different, but I wonder if they actually took company IP with them.
Money talks, BS walks. Of you are offered a 50% pay raise to go work for the worlds most successful corporation how long would you think about it? There is no legal way to prevent poaching of your employees other than offering them better wages and benefits. These same companies would be the first to lay you off when the going gets tough.
There's an irony in that social media is probably contributing to the decimation of one of the most expressive modes of communication. We don't read, talk or write enough.
I would like a revival of varied insults. People these days have such a limited vocabulary of curses. Ideally, of course, one would never resort to such words, but there are so many more interesting ways of saying f***. Asterix is a good example of varied insults and language, I think. Truly, we live in a very dull age when it comes to language. So bland and sterile. I try to mix things up a little, but unless everyone does, it becomes hard to sustain.
I believe the word you were searching for is "asterisk", unless you were referring to Asterix and Obelix?
There's an irony in that social media is probably contributing to the decimation of one of the most expressive modes of communication. We don't read, talk or write enough.
I would like a revival of varied insults. People these days have such a limited vocabulary of curses. Ideally, of course, one would never resort to such words, but there are so many more interesting ways of saying f***. Asterix is a good example of varied insults and language, I think. Truly, we live in a very dull age when it comes to language. So bland and sterile. I try to mix things up a little, but unless everyone does, it becomes hard to sustain.
I believe the word you were searching for is "asterisk", unless you were referring to Asterix and Obelix?
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The Irish don't like Mick Jagger, the Hispanics don't like Spic 'n Span, the Italians don't like Guinea pigs nor Doo Wop music. Many people grew up being called names. A word has no power over you unless you allow it to.
It's not going to create a company
Use their experience in battery development
I think fuelcell for everything I including powering everything data centers spaceship headquarters
Sooooo
Poaching is not illegal
How then to get around
No compete contracts ??
Has Apple learned from Samsung that legal wheels grind slowly
And by the time something happens it's too late for the other company
This will all be used internally never sold to other companies
Then why doesn't apple buy the company
Hmmmmm maybe they tried but china blocked it
Which court system would hear this ???
Apple is not going to expose itself to failure (oooops exclude sapphire)
Interesting strategy
If there was in fact an agreement in place Apple could be in trouble due to what this guy was doing, I am surprised Apple HR did not realize what was happening and did not put a stop to it, they had to be suspicious when they all 4 people in 1 month from the same company being hired.
Keep in mind it not illegal to target a particular companies employees as long as you do not have agreements in place baring hiring those people for some period of time. I work for a company and we sent a tour bus to a competitor companies campus with a big sign on it saying we want to hire them and would interview and hire them on the spot in the tour bus. This was back in the day of the Dot Com era. We got nasty letters form the competitor telling us we are not allow to do this, but we ignored them and kept doing it. They legally could not stop us. I know they began to threaten employees if they saw them get on the bus their job would be at risk.
Some Neo-nazis spray painted a swastika on the wall of a Hindu temple, not realizing the swastika was a symbol of prosperity and life in Hinduism. Context is everything.
Don't the Swastika's go a different direction?
You're more familiar with these terms than I am.
They do.
No they don't. The Nazi version is turned by 45° clockwise.
Ahhhh growing up in NYC, where we loved the neighbors we hated.
It would not surprise me Mujeeb Ijaz is not also hit with a lawsuit as well.
He is a co-defendant (with Apple and the other former A123 employees) in the current suit.
You don't like "chink"? As in "A chink in his armor"? Possibly because you think it originates from an ethnic slur. But it doesn't. It's derived from the word "chine" which is a narrow ravine created by running water. Just because a word sounds like it might be of an offensive origin does not grant you the privilege of taking offense at it. It's just a homonym. Next thing, you'll be taking offense at the word "niggardly".
There's a story of a professor getting fired for using that word because the public was incensed thinking he was being racist. I wish I were making that up.
It's perfectly fine if you don't want to like the way particular letters are formed or the phonemes that make up the sound of a word, but are you saying that no one should use the word chink to mean "a narrow opening or crack, typically one that admits light" because you are only able to make a derogative association with the spelling and/or phoneme grouping?
Apple is not a competitor to this company
It's not going to create a company
Use their experience in battery development
I think fuelcell for everything I including powering everything data centers spaceship headquarters
Sooooo
Poaching is not illegal
How then to get around
No compete contracts ??
Has Apple learned from Samsung that legal wheels grind slowly
And by the time something happens it's too late for the other company
This will all be used internally never sold to other companies
Then why doesn't apple buy the company
Hmmmmm maybe they tried but china blocked it
Which court system would hear this ???
Apple is not going to expose itself to failure (oooops exclude sapphire)
Interesting strategy
There's a wonderful invention called the full stop (or period). It makes reading easier.
You might like to try it some time.
There's a wonderful invention called the full stop (or period). It makes reading easier.
You might like to try it some time.
Hey ben fronst
i'm sorry about not using stops.... my right hand is bum and i had to use my left hand
when i get my right hand back i won't have to use just one finger
point (.) taken
non compete are against competitors how is apple its competitor?
There's a wonderful invention called the full stop (or period). It makes reading easier.
You might like to try it some time.
Hey ben fronst
i'm sorry about not using stops.... my right hand is bum and i had to use my left hand
when i get my right hand back i won't have to use just one finger
point (.) taken
non compete are against competitors how is apple its competitor?
Consider me humbled. I hope your right hand gets better soon!
As to your question: I'm afraid that I can't give you an opinion. Better minds than mine here may be able to enlighten you.
I recently read how the period is being used less and less by the Internet literati. Language is also becoming less colorful. It's sad really.
There's a wonderful invention called the full stop (or period). It makes reading easier.
You might like to try it some time.
I recently read how the period is being used less and less by the Internet literati. Language is also becoming less colorful. It's sad really.
Indeed.
There's an irony in that social media is probably contributing to the decimation of one of the most expressive modes of communication. We don't read, talk or write enough.
I would like a revival of varied insults. People these days have such a limited vocabulary of curses. Ideally, of course, one would never resort to such words, but there are so many more interesting ways of saying f***. Asterix is a good example of varied insults and language, I think. Truly, we live in a very dull age when it comes to language. So bland and sterile. I try to mix things up a little, but unless everyone does, it becomes hard to sustain.
The other defendants in the suit (the employees who moved to apple) signed non-compete (won't work for a competitor), non-disclosure (won't divulge secrets), and non-solicitation (won't recruit from the old company) agreements. I believe the suit is claiming that Apple motivated them to break all three.
Non-compete (and possibly non-solicitation) is hard to enforce in many jurisdictions (e.g. California), but the suit is in Massachusetts, where, presumably, they can be enforced.
I kind of hope it's thrown out. Non-compete clauses are one of the most ridiculous things, intended to lock employees to a job and limit future leverage as long as they can be considered valuable to an employer. NDAs are different, but I wonder if they actually took company IP with them.
I believe the word you were searching for is "asterisk", unless you were referring to Asterix and Obelix?
No; I meant Asterix! Inventive word-play.