Posts by Doctor Syntax 42510 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
AFAIK it's the default position in employment law whether it's specifically stated in the contract or not. It's the same as if you work in a factory stamping out washers; the washers belong to your employer, not to you. Where it gets dodgy is if the contract tries to claim IP on anything you do outside of your employment. I'd certainly want that removed.
By having a clause struck out which is specific about employer's ownership of IP on work done in the course of employment the employer loses nothing but might have made it worthwhile having a try if you'd hit the jackpot with something you'd written at home. They could argue that you'd waived your right to limit their IP claims to what you did at work. It might not be a strong argument but if the pay-day was worth it they might try and you might agree a deal rather than see it all disappear to the lawyers.
What's worse section 55(11) of the Bill seems to have been written in terms which will exclude them. By the look of it it would have been intended to exclude finance companies but I can see how online market places will at least argue that they fall under the exclusion.
What's needed is legislation that recognises a gatekeeper role and makes the gatekeepers responsible.
Five days. As it was compulsory I wasn't keen* and I was accompanying SWMBO on a field trip to Scotland. Not being in a hurry to get back I missed the first day. I'm not sure what they did on the first day but it couldn't have been much. The remaining four days were enough to show it was all straightforward. Maybe things went downhill a little after that.
* Compulsory was always bad news, right from gym at school.
They are clumps of cells and not cell fragments. The stem cells, if left to their own devices in a suspension, clump into spheroids of epidermis with the outer cells producing cilia by which they swim. As far as I can make out what they've done is work out Conway-like rules about how they associate in clumps and from that have worked out a shape - something along the lines of the glider gun - which will assemble smaller similar shaped clumps from loose cells. They then carve up the self-assembled spheroids into this shape. The reconfigured clumps work as predicted.
Each generation, however, is smaller. As they don't actually grow the limit is reached with a generation that's too small to assemble another one. They don't acquire energy from external sources so even the unmolested spheroids will eventually fall apart. The system is not self-sustaining.
It looks as if it depends on some mechanism for interaction between cells which must be related to the mechanisms for growth, embryogenesis, repair and differentiation in the whole organism but which lacks the structure of the whole organism to direct it. It may offer some insight into how collections of single cellular organisms could come together to form simple invertebrates with more advanced behaviours.
Apart from deliberate adulteration it was advisable to run a magnet over your ground coffee in case ground off bits of the machinery were in it.
The Co-operative movement was partly in response to adulteration. BTW the Rochdale "pioneers" weren't the first.
The Beeb reports some areas still without power after 4 days.
But I think you miss the main point. HMG is trying to replace gas-fired central heating with heat pumps. Those are going to draw more than 150 watts. If gas is phased out that leaves you with no heating at all in the event of a power cut. It also leaves you without the ability to make hot drinks (if you already have an all-electric kitchen you lose that anyway in the event of a power-cut). Your electricity supply becomes a single point of failure.
