I am a religious person, but I don't see this story blasphemous myself. Currently in our culture there is a disconnect between the teachings from the Christian traditions and the actual actions and call of actions from many predominate Christian leaders.
I feel the outcry is because the hypocrisy that we all face is being exposed, and the one thing everyone doesn't want is to be shown that they are wrong or immoral.
A lot of "Religious" people want is a simple If you do these things then you are good. However the Christian teaching actually offers a more complex set of morality then most of us want to deal with. A story set in modern times I feel would help reinforce the Christian teaching, in a non-dogma related media.
If well written this could be a powerful story to allow people to re-assets their stances and actions, without having to be all preachy. Because people don't like to show they are wrong or immoral, if they can come to the realization themselves, then all the better.
I expect there would be some outcry, but those are often from the same groups that just hate comic books anyways. I guess it sparked a bigger nerve.
No, the hieroglyphs were a form of direct language. The Emoji is actually more like a form of punctuation. If you look at President Lincoln's hand written speeches, he notated them with little pictures, letting him know when to look at the audience and where. How to inflect his voice, and what emotions to show.
Much of this informal communication was lost when we moved over to typed documents, this was due to a limited number characters available for a type writer, and printing presses, then to limited the character set in computers to 8 bits or less, due to expense and technical limitations (large and overly complex keyboard).
Now with modern technology with 64bit microprocessors, Gigs of RAM, and video that handles 32bit color at an insane resolution in nearly everyone's pockets. And with a gesture based interface, that doesn't require a physical keyboard. The Emoji is back into our language in a new form.
I think the problem is that emojis are even more ambiguous because the images may be very context sensitive. The High Heals and Dollar signs. Is that asking for money for shoes, asking someone to dress up and bring some extra cash, or a sign for prostitution.
If Apple is 50% of their customer base, Apple will need to go all the way to their warehouses to pickup the products to meet zero carbon admissions by Amazon.
This of course highlights one the biggest problems of our time, hacking metrics to meet the number, but not solve the problem the number is trying to show. I have seen across many industries. A department installs their own ticket tracking system, so all tickets that go on the Enterprise tracking system, are quickly closed, and transferred to their own. So the execs see that department keeps their tickets in good timing, while the actual problems in the tickets are not being resolved. Lowering budget costs, by transferring the cost into an other payment unit. For example laying off employees, and hiring a contractor at twice the amount, because a contractor fee is paid in a different budgeting area, which the company may have extra money.
The problem is too many people just look at the numbers, and do not bother digging past them to see what is causing them.
Yes, yes it is. The word "manipulate" has a negative connotation though. I am sure Amazon see this as offering customers additional options. You are looking at that newest iPhone, perhaps you should also see what the newest Samsung has to offer. Being that Amazon offers nearly everything, people go there to shop (and may not buy anything) like those Boomers use to do in these places called Department Stores, or Gen-Xer in a places called Malls. Today Amazon is nearly the monopoly in store front.
While they are some people like it seems yourself. Who knows what they want, and then will go in and get it, and back out. Where these suggestions are in the way, much like how a beer end-cap in the grocery store needs you to take an extra turn to get to the Baby Diapers. (This by the way is from a business statistic showing a correlation of purchases of Diapers and Beer after 7:00PM on Weekdays. As it seems it is traditional for wives will send their husbands to get diapers after their husband return from work, and while at the store, they will more likely pick up beer. ). However even if 99% of the time you don't want that recommendation that 1% of the time, that is where you will get a better deal, and amazon still gets its profits.
I am sure many of the recommendations are for products that gives Amazon a higher profit margin as well.
Unfortunately Procedural and Object Oriented languages, have gotten a foot hold, and training someone to code functionally is quite difficult, and for parallel processing it may be even trickier.
After 2 years of R&D we finally string concatenation and parsing that isn't locking up the computer! What were we doing again? Oh Deep Learning algorithm. I guess we now need to figure out how to hook the code up to a data source, and maybe we can find a way to interact the the GPU Cuda cores.
Yes, I am exaggerating. But C++ Doesn't solve that Python has with the Deep Learning Systems. Sometimes we need a non-general use programming language, that is optimized for the type of coding involved. These programming languages rarely make it on the top programming list, however when used correctly we see a real advantage with them.
Westerns popular during the 1950's while had some fad revivals. I feel more or less not relatable to most people. Back in the 1950's it covered a simpler time 100 years ago. 100 years from 2019 is 1919 (World War I has ended, Automobiles, Radio, Electric Lights) in Short we have a new world that is relatable to. I can probably see Gangster movies being popular instead of Westerns. This can open the door to some interesting stories. Because a lot of the 1920's there was a lot of interesting Gray areas America wants to celibate after WWI, Prohibition is in effect, creating an interesting black market with a variety of people engaged in it. Politically things are building up to the Great Depression and WWII.
To those in the 1950's the 1920's were much of this was too soon for them, however Westerns in a world where there was the ideal freedom, even though it seemed that something was always trying to kill them. The lone Sharif in a lawless town, a simpler time with simpler solutions. Today I think such simple solutions to problems will not last long, we need a more complex story.
The Library can get past paywalls because your tax money (or school tuition that you are going to pay off for the rest of your life) had payed for the service to be available.
The problem I have seen with Netflix Marvel is the fact it was 1990's dark comic book movie format. Much like how DC makes it movies. The formula for continuing story, arch and light harted filler seems to be off for me. While die hard fans and critics hate filler, the normal people actually like to see this from time to time, it helps us understand and relate better with the characters without the doom and gloom of a constant threat. The DC Animated TV Universe seemed to do a good job at this. While a dark hero like Datman is Dark and moody, they had episodes where he wasn't under a major threat, and the point of the story wasn't if he won or lost but just to see how he would react. The Marvel movies even seem to have time to lighten things up for a little bit, but being a 2 hour movie, you don't need to keep a long complex arch going on.
Well Google's Marketing would say most anything to keep the company in good graces.
However Google and its like services, Are part of the solution but not the full solution.
Searching is an important part of research, Google is a good tool for researchers, but it only help them search. A modern Librarian, can help you use Google to get more context out of your searches, direct you to Non-Google tools, and often the library will have access to data that is often behind a paywall.
Where do you draw the line between software and a machine? A clock uses gears with the right type and size to make it a good time keeping device. If I were to take a gear and swap it with an other, I could make the clock work backwards, or have it run faster or slower. In many ways the gear settings is the clocks software.
Lets say I have a mousetrap, it works better then an other one, because there is software that uses all the newest buzzwords, to attract the mouse, and know when it is in prime location to trap it. The actual trapping mechanism itself is rather basic, however all the work went into the software.
Now there are a lot of stupid software patents, where "futurists" can see the natural progression of software, then patent it without much details on how it would work. Lets say I see bandwidth improving so I will predict that in the future. Applications will be on the cloud, that would stream its content like a video feed, and respond differently from input from the user. That is as much detail I need to probably put a patent on this. Details on data compression, how much bandwidth is needed, how to overcome many lag issues, I don't need to worry about. That is where the Patent system is flawed. You can patent an Idea. But software should be free game (I don't like the Idea of Software being protected by both Copyright and Patents) If shown to be a functional set of code.
However should you have gone to a library, and perhaps worked with a Librarian to help guide you in your research? Google is a good search tool, but it isn't a research tool.
There are a lot of products get released at the same time, that have had independent R&D and came up with a similar product. If you were to steal the Specs in the design phase, you will have your product ready at around the same time Apple does. If you are going to look like you didn't steal the data, but came up with it yourself, it would make sense to have it ready around the same time the competitor gets it out. Or even better a little before.
I can see this type of argument for every major change to media storage. Clay Tablets to Scrolls. These scrolls can be burned an destroyed (Take a look at the Library of Alexandria) Scrolls to books, these bindings with labels allow for fast categorization, and allow a large libraries to purge their documents in weeks of some one in charges temper tantrum. The easier for us to create, categorize and manage data, also makes it easier to destroy.
However, besides historians, there is a lot of junk data. While some of it should be kept to help maintain the tone of the culture. Most of it isn't really needed, and a waste of historians times. Like this post in general, wither or not we agree or disagree with my assertion. To a historian the fact that someone for the early 21st century pointed out that there is worry for every time a media changes, isn't really valuable to them.
Perhaps my view is squewd, because I live in a town which had its economy collapse overnight, because a company who wasn't well regulated, decided to pollute the water supply.
After Doom, I was already tired of the first person shoot em up. However because it was so popular, nearly all the games have been like that afterwords. Then World of Warcraft was a big hit, so all the game companies moved over to online games. Game makers gotten serious about their stories, so all the games started to have these big huge complex stories.
With the companies following these fads, we had a lot of good games genres die out. 1. Single player Adventure Games, these were once games with state of the art graphics and sound, it made progressing to the next screen and area a real joy, you weren't playing against people, or having to keep your twitch reflex on maximum all the time. You get into a place, you then can take your time explore the area find as many hints as your can. The 2016 new Kings Quest while not getting big reviews, I found was a decent attempt of a modern version of the adventure game, however could had been much better with more budget and planning. (There was a trend in it, to make some puzzles, actual puzzles, and not organic part of the game environment) 2. Platform Games. Sometimes we don't need to use all the buttons on our controller. No story to figure out, no moral ambiguities, you are the hero, everyone else is the bad guy. 3. Strategy Games. No rush, take your time, come up with a plan. 4. Building Simulators, no plot just keep of building and simulating
Sure they are Indy games like this, and on the mobile market they have more options. But most of the big name games are nearly all the same. It isn't that we have lost our ability to pay attention to a game, but the fact after playing a few of these types of games, there isn't much we want to pay attention too.
Fortnite, is one of those quick to play games with a combination of many genres. You Win, then you Win, if not then you play again.
The real question is, if finding a cure is not a sustainable business model. What is wrong with your business model? My father gave me his old table saw it is from the 1950's it still works, The company that made the saw is still around, and they still make table saws. You would think if you made such a quality device that once everyone who has a table saw, you wouldn't be able to sell them anymore. However, there are new things such as new safety features (this 1950's table saw is a death trap even beyond the blade, there are exposed belts, an exposed motor that seems to be a good bump away from sucking in the power cord...) There as well smaller sizes, or larger sizes, the ability to get better angles, to keep the material straighter, or make it easier to replace the blade.
A company who makes a cure for a disease will one make a lot of upfront money from people demanding the cure. Which they can reinvest into finding the next condition that needs to be cured. It will be a long time for all problems to be cured.
In the meantime the general population who is now healthier will be working and expanding the economy even further.
You know, New York isn't really a Blue State. Just because the President elections and senate will tend to be Blue, The house of representatives will often get a good mixture of Democrat and Republican. New York, is a large state, with a lot of Rural areas, and a lot of people who are Very Red. I can drive up the roads and I see Trump Signs. Yellow Don't Tread on me, Tea Party Flags, Signs fighting the "New York Safe Act" on gun control. You will actually see more of these then Blue advertising. New York is actually a purple state, It is just New York City is such a large city, that it makes elections based on the entire state vote trend Blue. The Governor while a democrat, and has been on the news lately bashing Trump, has a conservative streak in him, often managing the State Senate keeping it a Republican majority for a long time. The state senate had switched recently. Mostly because Trump is such a bad excuse for a human being, and too many Republicans are ditching their values to support him. So there was a backlash. However I don't see this a long term issue. After Trump leaves office, the Republican party, would get back to their traditional talking points and probably regain power again.
This is why we need to make sure all levels of government affected by such actions are involved. Yes the US style of government is slow and clumsy. However, companies will need to work with them, to help make sure that they are indeed providing such a side effect benefit to the community, while they use that location to make gobs of money. People who live a few hundred miles north of New York City know the cost of having a big company being center of a community, only for it to leave devastating the community.
GE use to be centered in Schenectady NY (Near Albany). GE made Schenectady the City of Lights, and was the Silicon Valley a hundred years ago. While GE still has a presence there, it is a shadow of its former self. Where many engineers have been laid off decades ago, turning the city into a run down post industrial city, with its last hopes in a revitalization is a casino. With the Hudson River still polluted for hundreds of Miles from GE's free capitalist actions.
Jobs are good, however the company needs to be sure they are also working for the community, for a long term plan. While not a company doesn't need to be hyper Green, they need to follow and volunteer to perform reasonable environmental protection, and not just leave the city, because they found a better deal the city over in the next decade. They are cities that are run down, because they were built up for a population that it no longer can achieve, it is far more expensive to maintain a big structure, with a smaller tax base.
Why would you want to be a politician? Where you have a job where half the politicians kiss your butt? I have never seen a Unionized work place any better off then a non-unioned. I often see more firing and worse working conditions. As the Union cares more about numbers then quality. So they will negotiate firing skilled workers to bring in double unskilled workers. The extra salary bonus they may get gets sucked into Union dues. If one is forced to strike then that salary increase is lost due to the days you are on strike.
Why? We have had a lot of coverage about this on the general media circuit. There have been articles before it stating they cannot talk to it. What new can Slashdot bring to this?
Slashdot Mirror
I am a religious person, but I don't see this story blasphemous myself. Currently in our culture there is a disconnect between the teachings from the Christian traditions and the actual actions and call of actions from many predominate Christian leaders.
I feel the outcry is because the hypocrisy that we all face is being exposed, and the one thing everyone doesn't want is to be shown that they are wrong or immoral.
A lot of "Religious" people want is a simple If you do these things then you are good. However the Christian teaching actually offers a more complex set of morality then most of us want to deal with. A story set in modern times I feel would help reinforce the Christian teaching, in a non-dogma related media.
If well written this could be a powerful story to allow people to re-assets their stances and actions, without having to be all preachy. Because people don't like to show they are wrong or immoral, if they can come to the realization themselves, then all the better.
I expect there would be some outcry, but those are often from the same groups that just hate comic books anyways. I guess it sparked a bigger nerve.
So Mr. Know it all about stories, what would be a good story?
No, the hieroglyphs were a form of direct language. The Emoji is actually more like a form of punctuation. If you look at President Lincoln's hand written speeches, he notated them with little pictures, letting him know when to look at the audience and where. How to inflect his voice, and what emotions to show.
Much of this informal communication was lost when we moved over to typed documents, this was due to a limited number characters available for a type writer, and printing presses, then to limited the character set in computers to 8 bits or less, due to expense and technical limitations (large and overly complex keyboard).
Now with modern technology with 64bit microprocessors, Gigs of RAM, and video that handles 32bit color at an insane resolution in nearly everyone's pockets. And with a gesture based interface, that doesn't require a physical keyboard. The Emoji is back into our language in a new form.
I think the problem is that emojis are even more ambiguous because the images may be very context sensitive. The High Heals and Dollar signs. Is that asking for money for shoes, asking someone to dress up and bring some extra cash, or a sign for prostitution.
If Apple is 50% of their customer base, Apple will need to go all the way to their warehouses to pickup the products to meet zero carbon admissions by Amazon.
This of course highlights one the biggest problems of our time, hacking metrics to meet the number, but not solve the problem the number is trying to show.
I have seen across many industries. A department installs their own ticket tracking system, so all tickets that go on the Enterprise tracking system, are quickly closed, and transferred to their own. So the execs see that department keeps their tickets in good timing, while the actual problems in the tickets are not being resolved.
Lowering budget costs, by transferring the cost into an other payment unit. For example laying off employees, and hiring a contractor at twice the amount, because a contractor fee is paid in a different budgeting area, which the company may have extra money.
The problem is too many people just look at the numbers, and do not bother digging past them to see what is causing them.
Yes, yes it is. The word "manipulate" has a negative connotation though. I am sure Amazon see this as offering customers additional options. You are looking at that newest iPhone, perhaps you should also see what the newest Samsung has to offer. Being that Amazon offers nearly everything, people go there to shop (and may not buy anything) like those Boomers use to do in these places called Department Stores, or Gen-Xer in a places called Malls. Today Amazon is nearly the monopoly in store front.
While they are some people like it seems yourself. Who knows what they want, and then will go in and get it, and back out. Where these suggestions are in the way, much like how a beer end-cap in the grocery store needs you to take an extra turn to get to the Baby Diapers. (This by the way is from a business statistic showing a correlation of purchases of Diapers and Beer after 7:00PM on Weekdays. As it seems it is traditional for wives will send their husbands to get diapers after their husband return from work, and while at the store, they will more likely pick up beer. ). However even if 99% of the time you don't want that recommendation that 1% of the time, that is where you will get a better deal, and amazon still gets its profits.
I am sure many of the recommendations are for products that gives Amazon a higher profit margin as well.
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Unfortunately Procedural and Object Oriented languages, have gotten a foot hold, and training someone to code functionally is quite difficult, and for parallel processing it may be even trickier.
After 2 years of R&D we finally string concatenation and parsing that isn't locking up the computer!
What were we doing again? Oh Deep Learning algorithm. I guess we now need to figure out how to hook the code up to a data source, and maybe we can find a way to interact the the GPU Cuda cores.
Yes, I am exaggerating. But C++ Doesn't solve that Python has with the Deep Learning Systems. Sometimes we need a non-general use programming language, that is optimized for the type of coding involved. These programming languages rarely make it on the top programming list, however when used correctly we see a real advantage with them.
Westerns popular during the 1950's while had some fad revivals. I feel more or less not relatable to most people. Back in the 1950's it covered a simpler time 100 years ago. 100 years from 2019 is 1919 (World War I has ended, Automobiles, Radio, Electric Lights) in Short we have a new world that is relatable to. I can probably see Gangster movies being popular instead of Westerns. This can open the door to some interesting stories. Because a lot of the 1920's there was a lot of interesting Gray areas America wants to celibate after WWI, Prohibition is in effect, creating an interesting black market with a variety of people engaged in it. Politically things are building up to the Great Depression and WWII.
To those in the 1950's the 1920's were much of this was too soon for them, however Westerns in a world where there was the ideal freedom, even though it seemed that something was always trying to kill them. The lone Sharif in a lawless town, a simpler time with simpler solutions.
Today I think such simple solutions to problems will not last long, we need a more complex story.
The Library can get past paywalls because your tax money (or school tuition that you are going to pay off for the rest of your life) had payed for the service to be available.
The problem I have seen with Netflix Marvel is the fact it was 1990's dark comic book movie format. Much like how DC makes it movies.
The formula for continuing story, arch and light harted filler seems to be off for me. While die hard fans and critics hate filler, the normal people actually like to see this from time to time, it helps us understand and relate better with the characters without the doom and gloom of a constant threat.
The DC Animated TV Universe seemed to do a good job at this. While a dark hero like Datman is Dark and moody, they had episodes where he wasn't under a major threat, and the point of the story wasn't if he won or lost but just to see how he would react.
The Marvel movies even seem to have time to lighten things up for a little bit, but being a 2 hour movie, you don't need to keep a long complex arch going on.
I think I now have a PHD Thesis idea. The complete history of Fart Jokes.
Well Google's Marketing would say most anything to keep the company in good graces.
However Google and its like services, Are part of the solution but not the full solution.
Searching is an important part of research, Google is a good tool for researchers, but it only help them search. A modern Librarian, can help you use Google to get more context out of your searches, direct you to Non-Google tools, and often the library will have access to data that is often behind a paywall.
Where do you draw the line between software and a machine?
A clock uses gears with the right type and size to make it a good time keeping device. If I were to take a gear and swap it with an other, I could make the clock work backwards, or have it run faster or slower. In many ways the gear settings is the clocks software.
Lets say I have a mousetrap, it works better then an other one, because there is software that uses all the newest buzzwords, to attract the mouse, and know when it is in prime location to trap it. The actual trapping mechanism itself is rather basic, however all the work went into the software.
Now there are a lot of stupid software patents, where "futurists" can see the natural progression of software, then patent it without much details on how it would work. Lets say I see bandwidth improving so I will predict that in the future. Applications will be on the cloud, that would stream its content like a video feed, and respond differently from input from the user. That is as much detail I need to probably put a patent on this. Details on data compression, how much bandwidth is needed, how to overcome many lag issues, I don't need to worry about. That is where the Patent system is flawed. You can patent an Idea. But software should be free game (I don't like the Idea of Software being protected by both Copyright and Patents) If shown to be a functional set of code.
However should you have gone to a library, and perhaps worked with a Librarian to help guide you in your research?
Google is a good search tool, but it isn't a research tool.
There are a lot of products get released at the same time, that have had independent R&D and came up with a similar product.
If you were to steal the Specs in the design phase, you will have your product ready at around the same time Apple does.
If you are going to look like you didn't steal the data, but came up with it yourself, it would make sense to have it ready around the same time the competitor gets it out. Or even better a little before.
I can see this type of argument for every major change to media storage.
Clay Tablets to Scrolls. These scrolls can be burned an destroyed (Take a look at the Library of Alexandria)
Scrolls to books, these bindings with labels allow for fast categorization, and allow a large libraries to purge their documents in weeks of some one in charges temper tantrum.
The easier for us to create, categorize and manage data, also makes it easier to destroy.
However, besides historians, there is a lot of junk data. While some of it should be kept to help maintain the tone of the culture. Most of it isn't really needed, and a waste of historians times. Like this post in general, wither or not we agree or disagree with my assertion. To a historian the fact that someone for the early 21st century pointed out that there is worry for every time a media changes, isn't really valuable to them.
Perhaps my view is squewd, because I live in a town which had its economy collapse overnight, because a company who wasn't well regulated, decided to pollute the water supply.
There is no guarantee your improvement on a table saw, will be wanted by anyone.
After Doom, I was already tired of the first person shoot em up. However because it was so popular, nearly all the games have been like that afterwords. Then World of Warcraft was a big hit, so all the game companies moved over to online games. Game makers gotten serious about their stories, so all the games started to have these big huge complex stories.
With the companies following these fads, we had a lot of good games genres die out.
1. Single player Adventure Games, these were once games with state of the art graphics and sound, it made progressing to the next screen and area a real joy, you weren't playing against people, or having to keep your twitch reflex on maximum all the time. You get into a place, you then can take your time explore the area find as many hints as your can. The 2016 new Kings Quest while not getting big reviews, I found was a decent attempt of a modern version of the adventure game, however could had been much better with more budget and planning. (There was a trend in it, to make some puzzles, actual puzzles, and not organic part of the game environment)
2. Platform Games. Sometimes we don't need to use all the buttons on our controller. No story to figure out, no moral ambiguities, you are the hero, everyone else is the bad guy.
3. Strategy Games. No rush, take your time, come up with a plan.
4. Building Simulators, no plot just keep of building and simulating
Sure they are Indy games like this, and on the mobile market they have more options. But most of the big name games are nearly all the same. It isn't that we have lost our ability to pay attention to a game, but the fact after playing a few of these types of games, there isn't much we want to pay attention too.
Fortnite, is one of those quick to play games with a combination of many genres. You Win, then you Win, if not then you play again.
The real question is, if finding a cure is not a sustainable business model. What is wrong with your business model?
My father gave me his old table saw it is from the 1950's it still works, The company that made the saw is still around, and they still make table saws. You would think if you made such a quality device that once everyone who has a table saw, you wouldn't be able to sell them anymore.
However, there are new things such as new safety features (this 1950's table saw is a death trap even beyond the blade, there are exposed belts, an exposed motor that seems to be a good bump away from sucking in the power cord...) There as well smaller sizes, or larger sizes, the ability to get better angles, to keep the material straighter, or make it easier to replace the blade.
A company who makes a cure for a disease will one make a lot of upfront money from people demanding the cure. Which they can reinvest into finding the next condition that needs to be cured. It will be a long time for all problems to be cured.
In the meantime the general population who is now healthier will be working and expanding the economy even further.
You know, New York isn't really a Blue State. Just because the President elections and senate will tend to be Blue, The house of representatives will often get a good mixture of Democrat and Republican. New York, is a large state, with a lot of Rural areas, and a lot of people who are Very Red. I can drive up the roads and I see Trump Signs. Yellow Don't Tread on me, Tea Party Flags, Signs fighting the "New York Safe Act" on gun control. You will actually see more of these then Blue advertising.
New York is actually a purple state, It is just New York City is such a large city, that it makes elections based on the entire state vote trend Blue.
The Governor while a democrat, and has been on the news lately bashing Trump, has a conservative streak in him, often managing the State Senate keeping it a Republican majority for a long time. The state senate had switched recently. Mostly because Trump is such a bad excuse for a human being, and too many Republicans are ditching their values to support him. So there was a backlash. However I don't see this a long term issue. After Trump leaves office, the Republican party, would get back to their traditional talking points and probably regain power again.
This is why we need to make sure all levels of government affected by such actions are involved.
Yes the US style of government is slow and clumsy. However, companies will need to work with them, to help make sure that they are indeed providing such a side effect benefit to the community, while they use that location to make gobs of money.
People who live a few hundred miles north of New York City know the cost of having a big company being center of a community, only for it to leave devastating the community.
GE use to be centered in Schenectady NY (Near Albany). GE made Schenectady the City of Lights, and was the Silicon Valley a hundred years ago. While GE still has a presence there, it is a shadow of its former self. Where many engineers have been laid off decades ago, turning the city into a run down post industrial city, with its last hopes in a revitalization is a casino. With the Hudson River still polluted for hundreds of Miles from GE's free capitalist actions.
Jobs are good, however the company needs to be sure they are also working for the community, for a long term plan. While not a company doesn't need to be hyper Green, they need to follow and volunteer to perform reasonable environmental protection, and not just leave the city, because they found a better deal the city over in the next decade.
They are cities that are run down, because they were built up for a population that it no longer can achieve, it is far more expensive to maintain a big structure, with a smaller tax base.
Why would you want to be a politician? Where you have a job where half the politicians kiss your butt?
I have never seen a Unionized work place any better off then a non-unioned. I often see more firing and worse working conditions.
As the Union cares more about numbers then quality. So they will negotiate firing skilled workers to bring in double unskilled workers. The extra salary bonus they may get gets sucked into Union dues. If one is forced to strike then that salary increase is lost due to the days you are on strike.
Why? We have had a lot of coverage about this on the general media circuit. There have been articles before it stating they cannot talk to it.
What new can Slashdot bring to this?