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RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers
theodp writes "Taking a page from the insanely-jealous-husband-playbook, Motorola management has adopted an if-I-can't-have-you-nobody-can stance on its fired employees, reportedly blocking RIM from offering jobs to laid-off workers. In a complaint filed in state court, Motorola is charged with improperly trying to expand a previous agreement 'to prevent the RIM entities from hiring any Motorola employees, including the thousands of employees Motorola has already fired or will fire.' Through its Compete America membership, Motorola has repeatedly warned Congress that failing to accommodate the lobbying group members' 'principled' demand for timely access to talent would not be in the United States' economic interest and would make the US second-rate in education and basic research."
"If we all don't conform to consumerism the whole world will fall apart."
Don't recognize that one yet?
"If we all don't conform to *ism the whole world will fall apart."
Still having troubles reading that? Bigger hint. Replace the * with an arbitrary religion or philosophy from your list of religions and philosophies to hate.
Now that I've poisoned the well, let me explain.
There is plenty of room on the earth for everyone to have enough land and access to water to live the way this guy suggests. There always has been.
If you can't connect the dots from there, well, maybe I'll have more time to explain it some other day. But I've finally figured out something, and that is that if the other guy would quit competing so hard, I wouldn't need to compete so hard either. But if I keep scaling the competition up because he does, pretty soon it ends in the local equivalent of nuclear war.
Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens with fancy erasers; the 'net is just a fancy backyard fence.
I've heard so much about "US ecomomic interests", that quite frankly I' not anymore. Had enough bullshit in my life to see it coming and duck. Unlike the Iraquis, afghanistan, nicaragua who has no choice. At least the americans know what bullshot is cos they killed all the bufallo!!