I would say that in many shops, there can be only one because they don't want to have to support more than one. It's not that one is necessarily better than the other. This is a perfectly reasonable choice.
I dunno. We already have a process to deal with the problem. It's called bankruptcy. The real assets get sold to somebody who probably can better conserve them, and the shit gets flushed. If there is a problem with this, maybe the bankruptcy code needs tweaking, but they sure as hell don't need a bailout.
Wait: So you are saying that these things are actually way more valuable than their current prices would indicate? If that were the case, wouldn't people with money be snapping them up like free hotcakes?
The only way this plan wouldn't lose the taxpayers vast sums of money, would be if Hank Paulson was much better at valuing these things, using other people's money, than people out there who would be spending their own money.
Yes, it was definitely in the wrong venue. If the principal had sued, in court, there would be an adversarial process that would help to guarantee that the accused rights are protected. In this case, though, the principal was judge, jury, and executioner.
I'm guessing that should they choose to appeal, this would be overturned.
I would prefer that there be no illegal immigration to this country. I would prefer that all immigrants be legal. Unfortunately, that can't happen with our current immigration policies. I think I read that with the current immigration quotas, the queue of people waiting to immigrate from Mexico and Central America is over 100 years.
I suspect that for most of these people, it's not that they want to break the law, they simply have no choice if they want to feed their families.
I'm trying to imagine how an organism that evolved (or was intelligently designed) for the cold, dry surface of mars would find our warm, wet insides a hospitable environment.
Uh, before 1968 anybody who wanted to could buy just about any gun they wanted either locally, or by mail-order. I'm not seeing any drastic lowering of crime by making guns harder to get.
In our case, we are starting up an effort to get more open source into the environment and the first part of that effort was to get an inventory of what we currently had. Makes sense to me.
I think it depends where you are from. In the US, we are taught that there are two continents: North America and South America. I believe that most of the cultures farther south consider it to be one continent. "Continent" is a man-made abstraction, not something in nature.
Hope this helps.
Sometimes I'm just blown away when somebody's view of the world is so narrow. "What I have in my own (rich) country, people in poor countries should have too!".
What the heck would you consider the minimum those workers in some of the worlds poorest countries should have? $7.00/hour minimum wage? Sick leave, vacation leave, retirement plan? 6 months of unemployment if they get laid off?
When the industrial revolution started in the west, people ran from the farms to work in the "dark satanic mills", because they made a lot more money than they would have otherwise. For many it was a choice between a job and starvation, just like the "sweat shop work" that you are talking about.
Sometimes I think some of our western friends would prefer if the people starved, instead. How about comparing the working conditions in the "sweat shops" to the conditions of other poor people living in those countries, instead of to the condition of westerners working in air-conditioned cubicles. More of an apples-and-apples comparison, I mean.
Where I see it coming into its own is as an input method for really portable "wearable computing", where it would be extremely inconvenient to use a keyboard.
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Guaranteed minimum income, publicly funded healthcare, etc, can't be rights, as they don't exist in nature, and must be taken from somebody else.
Come on. Somebody mod this funny :-)
I would say that in many shops, there can be only one because they don't want to have to support more than one. It's not that one is necessarily better than the other. This is a perfectly reasonable choice.
For an example of a .Net project targeting both Windows and Linux, see OpenSim. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
I dunno. We already have a process to deal with the problem. It's called bankruptcy. The real assets get sold to somebody who probably can better conserve them, and the shit gets flushed. If there is a problem with this, maybe the bankruptcy code needs tweaking, but they sure as hell don't need a bailout.
The only way this plan wouldn't lose the taxpayers vast sums of money, would be if Hank Paulson was much better at valuing these things, using other people's money, than people out there who would be spending their own money.
I don't believe it. Sounds like BS to me.
1. Bankruptcy for those entities that need it ...
2. Bad stuff gets wiped
3. Good assets get bought by other entities
4.
5. Profit!
Yes, it was definitely in the wrong venue. If the principal had sued, in court, there would be an adversarial process that would help to guarantee that the accused rights are protected. In this case, though, the principal was judge, jury, and executioner. I'm guessing that should they choose to appeal, this would be overturned.
I would prefer that there be no illegal immigration to this country. I would prefer that all immigrants be legal. Unfortunately, that can't happen with our current immigration policies. I think I read that with the current immigration quotas, the queue of people waiting to immigrate from Mexico and Central America is over 100 years.
I suspect that for most of these people, it's not that they want to break the law, they simply have no choice if they want to feed their families.
WTF? "Extreme isolationism?" Free trade with all, entangling alliances with none. How the heck is that bad for the economy?
A monk asked Venter-zenji "Does a synthesized life form have Buddha nature or not?"
Venter-zenji replied "Mu."
"go ahead, throw your vote away."
I've never understood this. Do you get some prize for voting for the winner?
You think the US economy is still growing? Sounds like you've bought into the phoney baloney government statistics.
I'm trying to imagine how an organism that evolved (or was intelligently designed) for the cold, dry surface of mars would find our warm, wet insides a hospitable environment.
Spin cycle, baby!
Uh, before 1968 anybody who wanted to could buy just about any gun they wanted either locally, or by mail-order. I'm not seeing any drastic lowering of crime by making guns harder to get.
WTF? It's the "War on drugs" that is filling our prisons, for the most part. It doesn't have anything to do with immigration.
They are. See http://opensimulator.org/
I'm pretty sure I've seen movies where that was the arrangement. Or rather, I've seen a few minutes of such movies.
It didn't find ruby, perl, boinc, cygwin, ghostscript, firefox, ruby, or xemacs.
Something wrong with my config maybe? I dunno.
In our case, we are starting up an effort to get more open source into the environment and the first part of that effort was to get an inventory of what we currently had. Makes sense to me.
Doesn't real Caeser dressing have anchovies in it?
I think it depends where you are from. In the US, we are taught that there are two continents: North America and South America. I believe that most of the cultures farther south consider it to be one continent. "Continent" is a man-made abstraction, not something in nature. Hope this helps.
What the heck would you consider the minimum those workers in some of the worlds poorest countries should have? $7.00/hour minimum wage? Sick leave, vacation leave, retirement plan? 6 months of unemployment if they get laid off?
When the industrial revolution started in the west, people ran from the farms to work in the "dark satanic mills", because they made a lot more money than they would have otherwise. For many it was a choice between a job and starvation, just like the "sweat shop work" that you are talking about.
Sometimes I think some of our western friends would prefer if the people starved, instead. How about comparing the working conditions in the "sweat shops" to the conditions of other poor people living in those countries, instead of to the condition of westerners working in air-conditioned cubicles. More of an apples-and-apples comparison, I mean.
Where I see it coming into its own is as an input method for really portable "wearable computing", where it would be extremely inconvenient to use a keyboard.