As per a comment above, if the future political climate is anything like today's political climate then your state police/highway police forces will switch gears and be all about preventing that sort of thing from happening.
Well I have no doubt that will happen. I think there is only one state (Nevada?) that has done any viability studies about it at all (the book I read mentions this) about what the legal framework would be like. It still looks to me like it would happen. As much as governments kowtow to corporations and as much as corporations hate to pay truckers or any other workers I could see it become a governmental priority pretty quickly.
I was reading an ebook called "Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy" which is about the problem of technology eliminating jobs and the role of I.T. in the recession and jobless recovery and there is a section where the authors are talking about the rise of computing power and the advent of driverless vehicles and it struck me that we are probably in the last generation where truck driving is going to be a human job. With the problems in I.T. and the lack of jobs in my hometown (I can't move from here for reasons I won't go into) I was considering becoming one myself, but it is likely that it is another job that is going to exit stage left. I don't know what to feel about that, really. I am sure not many people on Slashdot care about that very much, but truckers are an American fixture and it seems like they pretty soon be another piece of roadkill on the technology highway.
Sounds familiar. Corporate success in the new age isn't about making good products and succeeding on the merits, it's about shifting all the costs onto the backs of others. Meritocracy indeed...
Before you make an argument like that, maybe you should go listen to Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter. They believe that everything up to and including every act of god is caused by the liburils.
God forbid we include actual FACTS in our arguments.
It goes farther than that...a group of publicly traded companies assisted by lapdog government that turn around and stabbed the whole country in the back.
The group there doesn't have a problem when corporations compete fairly and aren't manipulating the government.
Of course, no one anti-OWS wants to hear facts. They just want to shoot off personal attacks.
On twitter every day there are people screaming about the U.S. "high corporate tax rate" and they always forget to mention that NOBODY pays that rate... to many ways around it.
What I want to know is how lowering corporate tax helps anyone at all when such a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%.
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The corporate MSM has always obscured this problem (and it's variants) and will continue to obscure this problem because they're into ass deep themselves. I've never heard a TV news show bemoan the fact that many corporations affectively have a negative state income tax rate and I suspect I never will (but it's well document in books like "JobsScam" and other places).
They don't want people thinking that the people have OWS have a point now, do they?
some in Congress want this to be even easier...
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Well.. don't underestimate the power of the campaign contribution, the revolving door, and the lobbyist... The congresscritters have many other ways they can get benefits from a situation like this...
While I feel it was Steve Jobs who really created to home computer revolution and I feel sad at his death, I'm angry that now I have to sit through a bunch of incorrect tributes on TV. CNN already implied he invented the mouse (that was Doug Englebart). Next they will say he invented the gui. *sigh*.
CNN also just said his "greatest invention" was the ipad. First, he didn't "invent" it, secondly... his GREATEST contribution? Come on.
We will miss him, though, even if he did go from being one of the best promoters of computer hobbyist culture to one of the most proprietary loving bastards on the planet...
As we see in this thread, we have an idea that corporate anarchy will solve anything.
I bet we're going to have a data event at some point that is going to equal 9/11 in importance before anything gets done, and then it will be some kneejerk reaction like the Patriot Act. We're totally screwed up in this country and at some point someone is going to decide that it's time for creative destruction... and that's scary.
Not to mention Reagan came into office and purged just about every anti-trust idea out of the system and those ideas have only been rarely thought of since. Even the anti-trust actions of the Clinton era were barely tolerated.
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This film is the only movie ever to make me physically ill (except maybe ones that cause motion sickness).
It was literally made by a manure salesman.
It was made with a wind-up camera that could only take a shot for about 60 sec. or so (which is why there is constant jump cuts).
Several people involved with the shoot (including the guy who played Torgo) later committed suicide.
You can go on and on. It's a bit of cinematic history.
(I think Tarantino owns one of the prints of this, however...)
Indeed....
As per a comment above, if the future political climate is anything like today's political climate then your state police/highway police forces will switch gears and be all about preventing that sort of thing from happening.
Well I have no doubt that will happen. I think there is only one state (Nevada?) that has done any viability studies about it at all (the book I read mentions this) about what the legal framework would be like. It still looks to me like it would happen. As much as governments kowtow to corporations and as much as corporations hate to pay truckers or any other workers I could see it become a governmental priority pretty quickly.
I was reading an ebook called "Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy" which is about the problem of technology eliminating jobs and the role of I.T. in the recession and jobless recovery and there is a section where the authors are talking about the rise of computing power and the advent of driverless vehicles and it struck me that we are probably in the last generation where truck driving is going to be a human job. With the problems in I.T. and the lack of jobs in my hometown (I can't move from here for reasons I won't go into) I was considering becoming one myself, but it is likely that it is another job that is going to exit stage left. I don't know what to feel about that, really. I am sure not many people on Slashdot care about that very much, but truckers are an American fixture and it seems like they pretty soon be another piece of roadkill on the technology highway.
Copyright and Patents are merely two systems of dozens that are broken in the exact same way.
This happens when people can buy power in the government and can write their own laws.
Sounds familiar. Corporate success in the new age isn't about making good products and succeeding on the merits, it's about shifting all the costs onto the backs of others. Meritocracy indeed...
Before you make an argument like that, maybe you should go listen to Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter. They believe that everything up to and including every act of god is caused by the liburils.
God forbid we include actual FACTS in our arguments.
Using the word "socialist" without defending it is equivalent to the use of "communist" in the 1950s.
In other words, it's meant as a personal attack and it is should be enough for any thinking person to tell you where you can shove your argument.
There is no such thing as a pure economy... just different balances between unregulated capitalism and (actual) socialism.
They also haven't screwed their people up to the point where Manager and Executive are the only jobs that people think deserve a living wage.
They do? I've been following the protests and the only persons really talking about socialism are the anti-OWS types.
It goes farther than that...a group of publicly traded companies assisted by lapdog government that turn around and stabbed the whole country in the back.
The group there doesn't have a problem when corporations compete fairly and aren't manipulating the government.
Of course, no one anti-OWS wants to hear facts. They just want to shoot off personal attacks.
Again, his is just a mindless talking point.
The biggest corporations have enough people and tricks to pay 0%. Rate of percentage is irrelevant. Getting rid of the broken tax code is.
blah blah blah. common talking point. I wonder if it was cut and pasted.
Plus it's ignoring your own beloved laws of supply and demand.
It's just another dishonest talking point.
On twitter every day there are people screaming about the U.S. "high corporate tax rate" and they always forget to mention that NOBODY pays that rate... to many ways around it.
What I want to know is how lowering corporate tax helps anyone at all when such a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%.
The corporate MSM has always obscured this problem (and it's variants) and will continue to obscure this problem because they're into ass deep themselves. I've never heard a TV news show bemoan the fact that many corporations affectively have a negative state income tax rate and I suspect I never will (but it's well document in books like "JobsScam" and other places).
They don't want people thinking that the people have OWS have a point now, do they?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-usa-tax-repatriation-idUSTRE79C71820111013
Yep... this would be such a GREAT stimulus for jobs..
Well.. don't underestimate the power of the campaign contribution, the revolving door, and the lobbyist... The congresscritters have many other ways they can get benefits from a situation like this...
Loyalty means nothing in the new corporate century.
Believe me, they'll sell YOU out if/when they have the chance. Do what you think is right but make sure you don't hurt yourself.
Where can I get one? That would SERIOUSLY make the money worth it....
While I feel it was Steve Jobs who really created to home computer revolution and I feel sad at his death, I'm angry that now I have to sit through a bunch of incorrect tributes on TV. CNN already implied he invented the mouse (that was Doug Englebart). Next they will say he invented the gui. *sigh*.
CNN also just said his "greatest invention" was the ipad. First, he didn't "invent" it, secondly... his GREATEST contribution? Come on.
We will miss him, though, even if he did go from being one of the best promoters of computer hobbyist culture to one of the most proprietary loving bastards on the planet...
The Creation museum says that birds aren't related to dinosaurs.
Six thousand years ago Washington was riding a dinosaur, so this makes no sense.
As we see in this thread, we have an idea that corporate anarchy will solve anything.
I bet we're going to have a data event at some point that is going to equal 9/11 in importance before anything gets done, and then it will be some kneejerk reaction like the Patriot Act. We're totally screwed up in this country and at some point someone is going to decide that it's time for creative destruction... and that's scary.
Maybe they should be concerned less about hiring "managers" and more with hiring people with actual ideas.
Not to mention Reagan came into office and purged just about every anti-trust idea out of the system and those ideas have only been rarely thought of since. Even the anti-trust actions of the Clinton era were barely tolerated.