The problem with the French system is that most households had an uneven split between the bread winner and the other partner, just like in UK/US. French women didn't accept that they would have to increase their work hours in order to maintain a consistent level of household income.
The so called lump of labour fallacy has been unfairly and unevenly applied to this issue. Certainly, there are fixed costs of employment that don't scale when a person decreases their hours. This means that there is a loss of efficiency when a worker decreases his or her hours. However, those assessments forget that a corresponding increase of work hours ought should be imposed in the case of low hours workers, with a corresponding increase in efficiency
Once again, this is an issue that the press didn't want to cover because it would cause some uncomfortable questions for feminists who bleat about being held back in their career because of their greater caring responsibilities.
These are the dots that media just don't want to connect. THIS is why females are under-represented in IT and over-represented in something like HR. Work-life balance sucks in IT. The higher salary carries with it a sacrifice.
Like the idea. I think that we could create a hoax that works just the way you say. Maybe we should try it on a smaller scale to begin with. I propose that we piss of some religious fanatics and get them to blow up some buildings. We can then pretend that some other country was in some way responsible and has masses of WMDs pointing right at us.
So much for those who claim that the Bush admin wasn't working to a sensible plan.
Prostate cancer has nothing to do with a lump on your testicles.
I didn't say that it did. I was talking about cancers specific to males. They need at least an equal amount of awareness raising and destigmatization, if not more.
This touches on a significant male rights issue that the press refuse to report on. Male cancers lag far behind the cancers that are specific to women in terms of awareness and research. Few people even know that prostate cancer is actually more common than breast cancer. More men than women die of cancer each year.
Despite this, feminists would probably argue that they are campaigning in order to raise awareness of female cancers. A woman might mention to her colleagues that she is going to have a lump in her breast examined. Most men would find it difficult to raise the subject of a lump in their testicles when chatting with their closest friend.
Oh come on, this is Slashdotland. Every day a new cure for cancer/AIDS is found, along with a new storage tech that stores things at an atomic level. Every week Microsoft stares bankruptcy in the face because Linux is taking over. When Rockstar Games don't have a "controversial" new release out, the editors have to balance the good news with a few downers.
I think that's actually a bit disingenuous. A lot of the time the reason for this process is to provide guidance to filmmakers in order to help them achieve the certificate they want.
I disagree with that for two reasons. Firstly, you make it sound like there is an upper limit to the powers of the BBFC. They can and do block film releases at any certificate.
Secondly, their statements are disingenuous because they imply that the BBFC rarely impose cuts on films.
And this is my problem with the submitted summary. The cost of providing the service must include the cost of setting up and operating the infrastructure. It's irrelevant that the SMS piggybacks on another service and that the cost of sending one message is close to zero.
There's plenty of competition amongst mobile phone carriers. Maybe one of them will offer free texting, in order to get get ahead of the competition. Such a company would have to hope that the losses from the lack of SMS charges would be compensated by a greater number of customers.
It's similar to people who complain that books are overpriced because they are being sold for more than the cost of manufacture.
They use quite a lot of tricks to censor films. For example, they will sometimes pass the film back to distributor with notes explaining why they cannot pass the film at the requested certificate. The best bit? The distributor makes the changes as specifies and then resubmits the film which is then passed. The BBFC then report that they didn't have to make any cuts.
It gets even better as the distributor (notice that I didn't say, "the film makers") have a rough idea of the what the BBFC will and wont allow at each certificate. This means that they cut it to BBFC rules in advance.
Note that the UK doesn't have an X certificate.
Using this policy, the BBFC gets away with censoring everything while claiming that they hardly ever have to make cuts.
Don't get me started on their procedures, criteria for "obscenity" and the qualifications of their staff.
Melon Farmers used to be the best site for monitoring the BBFC although I haven't used it for a while.
These powers could be abused but I'm comfortable that Gordo and Jackboots Jackie will only use these powers for good.
[fx: wipes a tear away that was brought on by the laughter]
It's the kind of diversity that NuLabour are best at: now we're taking choice elements from the best despotic societies such as China and the Soviet Union and integrating them into our culture. I'm almost moved to vote but I'm not convinced that the other lot are going to do that much about it.
I'm afraid that I don't know of a good GUI tool. Fdupes isn't too bad. You can specify / as the start directory and then make it search recursively. You can also make it interactive with a switch. It can spot identical files with different file names. It was sufficient for the little job I had to carry out.
This Xmas, the windows tech guy will be seating at their Xmas dinner table while I will be eating Macaroni and Cheese from my microwave, alone at my house.
You were ex communicated from your entire ungrateful family. Surely that was worth the time investment of Ubuntu in itself?
"Hey, I heard that you're having some computer difficulties again. Y'want me to pop over and try to fix it? Oh right, you don't trust me to do it anymore. Fair enough, you might be better asking someone a bit more qualified than me"." [fx: pats Ubuntu CDS and whispers "Thankyou, Shuttleworth!"]
In my experience, getting people like that stay away is rarely that easy.
Another vote for Ubuntu. I wrote about my experiences of moving my mother over to Linux at the beginning of the year. It's gone swimmingly and I'm writing the follow-up now. What possible advantage could there be in setting up a non-expert, non-gamer with Windows? For one thing, Windows XP seems to go wrong in places when you attempt to set a large font.
Another vote for Lyx. The learning curve is steeper than Open Office but if you can get along with its approach, it's worth investing the time, IMO. Version 1.6 has just been released.
I like to use it alongside some other open source software such as Freemind for mind maps and Jabref for managing references. For graphics, it works well with the usual subjects such as Inkscape for vector drawing and GIMP for bitmaps. Personally, I prefer the graph and spreadsheet facilities of Gnumeric over OO Calc.
I suspect that LyX is a love it or loath it app, but I love it, baby!
The biggest let down with LyX was that customising the LaTeX proved to be surprisingly difficult. You have to get your hands a bit dirty in order to change things like the style of section title headers. I had never tangled with LaTeX before, and I found the syntax to be less than intuitive. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that this aspect of using a LaTeX front end brought back memories of Linux circa 1998. In other words, you could waste a day searching through loads of conflicting docs in order to do something that would take a few minutes in something else.
I used the Koma book class and I think that I'm going to switch to the Memoir class (google for it) for the next book. The main reason for this is that often when I was trying to customise Koma, I stumbled onto tips for how to do things in Memoir.
Finally, I can't claim that I pushed the envelope or that mine is a shining example of a good book, but if you go to the book page on my site, you can download the pdf version and the LyX file that is needed to build it.
Have a look at any sociology book and you'll see that you've got the wrong attitude to work. You see, there is this thing called the "flexible workforce". Women are overrepresented in it and therefore "marginalised" into suffering low hours and flexible work practices. It would be sheer foolishness to relinquish the great honour of unreasonably long paid work hours that are stifling your life/family aspirations.
Salary is the only metric of any importance when making an assessment. Conditions are absolutely irrelevant. Tenure requirements, work hours, intrinsic reward, decent work life balance, and on the job safety are of no importance. If they were worth fighting over the men would have them and they would be graphed out in objective and fair sociology text books. Right next to those graphs that show salary disparity.
Ah, a sensible economy. BTW, guys - I'm not going to be around on/. for a while because I'm moving somewhere really remote and geographically isolated because of this announcement. The thing of it is I'm not sure how I'm going to get Internet as I'll be miles away from the major cities.
I wonder if one of those underground data centres needs a live in admin geek?
On my Acorn Archimedes with dot matrix printer, I would often save on printer ink by producing outlined lettering on big text. One of the benefits of having scalable vector fonts and the tools to turn them into paths back in 1988.
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The problem with the French system is that most households had an uneven split between the bread winner and the other partner, just like in UK/US. French women didn't accept that they would have to increase their work hours in order to maintain a consistent level of household income.
The so called lump of labour fallacy has been unfairly and unevenly applied to this issue. Certainly, there are fixed costs of employment that don't scale when a person decreases their hours. This means that there is a loss of efficiency when a worker decreases his or her hours. However, those assessments forget that a corresponding increase of work hours ought should be imposed in the case of low hours workers, with a corresponding increase in efficiency
Once again, this is an issue that the press didn't want to cover because it would cause some uncomfortable questions for feminists who bleat about being held back in their career because of their greater caring responsibilities.
At least we'll be able to shoot some politicians into space so that they can show their concern.
These are the dots that media just don't want to connect. THIS is why females are under-represented in IT and over-represented in something like HR. Work-life balance sucks in IT. The higher salary carries with it a sacrifice.
Like the idea. I think that we could create a hoax that works just the way you say. Maybe we should try it on a smaller scale to begin with. I propose that we piss of some religious fanatics and get them to blow up some buildings. We can then pretend that some other country was in some way responsible and has masses of WMDs pointing right at us.
So much for those who claim that the Bush admin wasn't working to a sensible plan.
Spot on. The guy misses far more than he hits. Even when he hits, the innovation existed to some extent ten years ago.
Prostate cancer has nothing to do with a lump on your testicles.
I didn't say that it did. I was talking about cancers specific to males. They need at least an equal amount of awareness raising and destigmatization, if not more.
This touches on a significant male rights issue that the press refuse to report on. Male cancers lag far behind the cancers that are specific to women in terms of awareness and research. Few people even know that prostate cancer is actually more common than breast cancer. More men than women die of cancer each year.
Despite this, feminists would probably argue that they are campaigning in order to raise awareness of female cancers. A woman might mention to her colleagues that she is going to have a lump in her breast examined. Most men would find it difficult to raise the subject of a lump in their testicles when chatting with their closest friend.
Oh come on, this is Slashdotland. Every day a new cure for cancer/AIDS is found, along with a new storage tech that stores things at an atomic level. Every week Microsoft stares bankruptcy in the face because Linux is taking over. When Rockstar Games don't have a "controversial" new release out, the editors have to balance the good news with a few downers.
I could have phrased that better. I meant that, in the UK, if a film's content is judged too strong to get an 18 or R18, it is illegal to distribute.
I think that's actually a bit disingenuous. A lot of the time the reason for this process is to provide guidance to filmmakers in order to help them achieve the certificate they want.
I disagree with that for two reasons. Firstly, you make it sound like there is an upper limit to the powers of the BBFC. They can and do block film releases at any certificate.
Secondly, their statements are disingenuous because they imply that the BBFC rarely impose cuts on films.
And this is my problem with the submitted summary. The cost of providing the service must include the cost of setting up and operating the infrastructure. It's irrelevant that the SMS piggybacks on another service and that the cost of sending one message is close to zero.
There's plenty of competition amongst mobile phone carriers. Maybe one of them will offer free texting, in order to get get ahead of the competition. Such a company would have to hope that the losses from the lack of SMS charges would be compensated by a greater number of customers.
It's similar to people who complain that books are overpriced because they are being sold for more than the cost of manufacture.
I wasn't aware of it. I think that I'll try to track that one down. Thanks.
I took that to mean "There is content [that is legally available at the moment] that should just not be available to be viewed.".
They use quite a lot of tricks to censor films. For example, they will sometimes pass the film back to distributor with notes explaining why they cannot pass the film at the requested certificate. The best bit? The distributor makes the changes as specifies and then resubmits the film which is then passed. The BBFC then report that they didn't have to make any cuts.
It gets even better as the distributor (notice that I didn't say, "the film makers") have a rough idea of the what the BBFC will and wont allow at each certificate. This means that they cut it to BBFC rules in advance.
Note that the UK doesn't have an X certificate.
Using this policy, the BBFC gets away with censoring everything while claiming that they hardly ever have to make cuts.
Don't get me started on their procedures, criteria for "obscenity" and the qualifications of their staff.
Melon Farmers used to be the best site for monitoring the BBFC although I haven't used it for a while.
[fx: wipes a tear away that was brought on by the laughter]
It's the kind of diversity that NuLabour are best at: now we're taking choice elements from the best despotic societies such as China and the Soviet Union and integrating them into our culture. I'm almost moved to vote but I'm not convinced that the other lot are going to do that much about it.
"Papers please." --- get used to hearing that.
I'm afraid that I don't know of a good GUI tool. Fdupes isn't too bad. You can specify / as the start directory and then make it search recursively. You can also make it interactive with a switch. It can spot identical files with different file names. It was sufficient for the little job I had to carry out.
This Xmas, the windows tech guy will be seating at their Xmas dinner table while I will be eating Macaroni and Cheese from my microwave, alone at my house.
You were ex communicated from your entire ungrateful family. Surely that was worth the time investment of Ubuntu in itself?
"Hey, I heard that you're having some computer difficulties again. Y'want me to pop over and try to fix it? Oh right, you don't trust me to do it anymore. Fair enough, you might be better asking someone a bit more qualified than me"." [fx: pats Ubuntu CDS and whispers "Thankyou, Shuttleworth!"]
In my experience, getting people like that stay away is rarely that easy.
Another vote for Ubuntu. I wrote about my experiences of moving my mother over to Linux at the beginning of the year. It's gone swimmingly and I'm writing the follow-up now. What possible advantage could there be in setting up a non-expert, non-gamer with Windows? For one thing, Windows XP seems to go wrong in places when you attempt to set a large font.
I ended up using the shaded box facility for "tip boxes" and it was an aspect of the book that I was never completely happy with.
Another vote for Lyx. The learning curve is steeper than Open Office but if you can get along with its approach, it's worth investing the time, IMO. Version 1.6 has just been released.
I like to use it alongside some other open source software such as Freemind for mind maps and Jabref for managing references. For graphics, it works well with the usual subjects such as Inkscape for vector drawing and GIMP for bitmaps. Personally, I prefer the graph and spreadsheet facilities of Gnumeric over OO Calc.
I suspect that LyX is a love it or loath it app, but I love it, baby!
The biggest let down with LyX was that customising the LaTeX proved to be surprisingly difficult. You have to get your hands a bit dirty in order to change things like the style of section title headers. I had never tangled with LaTeX before, and I found the syntax to be less than intuitive. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that this aspect of using a LaTeX front end brought back memories of Linux circa 1998. In other words, you could waste a day searching through loads of conflicting docs in order to do something that would take a few minutes in something else.
I used the Koma book class and I think that I'm going to switch to the Memoir class (google for it) for the next book. The main reason for this is that often when I was trying to customise Koma, I stumbled onto tips for how to do things in Memoir.
Finally, I can't claim that I pushed the envelope or that mine is a shining example of a good book, but if you go to the book page on my site, you can download the pdf version and the LyX file that is needed to build it.
Have a look at any sociology book and you'll see that you've got the wrong attitude to work. You see, there is this thing called the "flexible workforce". Women are overrepresented in it and therefore "marginalised" into suffering low hours and flexible work practices. It would be sheer foolishness to relinquish the great honour of unreasonably long paid work hours that are stifling your life/family aspirations.
Salary is the only metric of any importance when making an assessment. Conditions are absolutely irrelevant. Tenure requirements, work hours, intrinsic reward, decent work life balance, and on the job safety are of no importance. If they were worth fighting over the men would have them and they would be graphed out in objective and fair sociology text books. Right next to those graphs that show salary disparity.
Now we just need the TOS "comedy" music to play after every howler. duh-duhdudludu du du du.
Nerds beating nerds, how perverse.
Ah, a sensible economy. BTW, guys - I'm not going to be around on /. for a while because I'm moving somewhere really remote and geographically isolated because of this announcement. The thing of it is I'm not sure how I'm going to get Internet as I'll be miles away from the major cities.
I wonder if one of those underground data centres needs a live in admin geek?
On my Acorn Archimedes with dot matrix printer, I would often save on printer ink by producing outlined lettering on big text. One of the benefits of having scalable vector fonts and the tools to turn them into paths back in 1988.