That may be a contributing factor. Alcohol has a fairly wide window where you are significantly impaired but want to party and think you can do anything. Pot has a small window between high and just want to veg on the couch. That would keep the severely impaired people off the roads.
The second part is the key. If salaried workers went to a 35 hour week, it would be a different picture.
A related issue might be limiting just how 'flexible' a part-time employee's schedule can be. If you're not going to give someone enough hours to live on, you have to accommodate their need for a second job by not expecting them to show up at odd hours or at the drop of a hat.
The problem is that very long period where we need a lot less jobs but not no jobs.
Consider, we could wipe out our unemployment problem RIGHT NOW if the average work week was cut to 35 hours a week. But notice how it isn't happening. I'll probably get several replies screeching about how civilization will crumble and we;ll all end up living in caves if we cut back even 1 hour a week.
I would love to get rid of the wealth=income thing, but that darned grocery store keeps wanting money for food. Way up on the high end of the income distribution, it is possible to make a change, but it seems that section is populated mostly by people who think things are good the way they are and might be better if people were twice as desperate for work.
Rating any of those CDOs as AAA was surely over the line. Especially near the end where they were being called 'toxic' internally. Who got punished for that? Arguably, that was a major enabler for the crap that went on.
Who got punished for pushing sub-prime loans that anyone in the industry could easily have predicted a default? They're supposed to at least put together a loan that has a chance of being paid off.
BofA did get fined for some of their POST-CRASH foreclosures, but the fines were so small that they treated them as a business expense and continued their bad behavior.
Yes, they are getting their hands slapped, but that's all they're getting and it's mostly for things they have continued doing after the crash. Bad bad Charley (tap tap on the wrist) no more serial killing! Now take this million dollars and go reform yourself.
You seem to be mistaken. Nobody went on trial. A few paid what amounted to a traffic ticket. Many billions in fraud have been ignored.
There were a few more fines for continuing wrongdoing after the crash (for example, B of A), but even there most of the activity went un-punished. So again, the entire financial sector. Each and every last one of them.
Imagine if an individual helped terrorists launder money. What do you suppose the odds are that they would be around to open their shop the next day?
Losing everything was a natural consequence of their actions. It had nothing to do with law enforcement efforts. Plenty of others were saved from their own malfeasance by a huge bailout check.
Even where fines were issued, ten cents on the dollar for a very profitable crime isn't so much a punishment as it is a fine. Imagine if counterfeiting carried the same penalty. Everyone would try it.
Or perhaps that happens to a lot of people but since it isn't distressing, they just assume that's how it is for everyone or they count themselves lucky.
Here's the deal. I will charge you with rape, murder, child molestation, bank robbery, and having a bad attitude. The minimum sentence will be 40 years, but I'm going for the max. the trial will take about a year. The cost will put your wife and children on the street and leave you with the world's most overworked public defender, so you better believe I'll get that conviction.
OR...you could plead guilty to aggravated littering and with time served we can have you home by Friday.
SCP moves one file. SSH doesn't move any. RDP makes every file the target has access to directly accessible as a file share on the client even if you don't want it to.
CryptoLocker running on the client wouldn't have seen the files the target could access at all had the connection been VNC, X, or ssh.
Alternatively, the maintainers say "OH MY GOD, it's so tangled up it'll take me 3 years just to cut this Gordian knot! I'll have to include systemd and hope for the best".
Pretty much the systemd advocates are running around pissing on everything in the store all the while yelling about how if you don't like piss you should buy simething that hasn't been pissed on. Of course if they see you head for a shelf, they'll do their best to run and piss on it before you get there.
I didn't have any problems at all with my laptop. Linux just worked out of the box. I didn't have to do a lot of shopping around for it, I just looked over the broad overview and weeded out the ones with junky hardware (that I wouldn't want in a Windows box either).
The last time I had to do heavy Googling and schlep driver disks around was installing Windows on a new-ish desktop machine.
As for Windows 8, even long time MS fans rejected that one in droves.
Yes, since the systemd supporters didn't like sysvinit, they certainly should have forked a distro and put systemd in it. I wonder why they didn't just do that?
Perhaps if you read a news site like slashdot, for example, you would have seen a few articles about people putting such a distro together. You might have even gone the extra mile and subscribed to their mailing list where you would see actual progress being made.
Nah, it's much easier to just bitch about people who didn't drink your cool aid on slash....HEY! Wait a minute!
I guess you just delete anything from memory that might keep you from dumping on people!
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That may be a contributing factor. Alcohol has a fairly wide window where you are significantly impaired but want to party and think you can do anything. Pot has a small window between high and just want to veg on the couch. That would keep the severely impaired people off the roads.
I've had the same experience but with sober drivers.
How is your friend's driving when not stoned?
The second part is the key. If salaried workers went to a 35 hour week, it would be a different picture.
A related issue might be limiting just how 'flexible' a part-time employee's schedule can be. If you're not going to give someone enough hours to live on, you have to accommodate their need for a second job by not expecting them to show up at odd hours or at the drop of a hat.
The problem is that very long period where we need a lot less jobs but not no jobs.
Consider, we could wipe out our unemployment problem RIGHT NOW if the average work week was cut to 35 hours a week. But notice how it isn't happening. I'll probably get several replies screeching about how civilization will crumble and we;ll all end up living in caves if we cut back even 1 hour a week.
I would love to get rid of the wealth=income thing, but that darned grocery store keeps wanting money for food. Way up on the high end of the income distribution, it is possible to make a change, but it seems that section is populated mostly by people who think things are good the way they are and might be better if people were twice as desperate for work.
The change is unlikely to be entirely voluntary.
Rating any of those CDOs as AAA was surely over the line. Especially near the end where they were being called 'toxic' internally. Who got punished for that? Arguably, that was a major enabler for the crap that went on.
Who got punished for pushing sub-prime loans that anyone in the industry could easily have predicted a default? They're supposed to at least put together a loan that has a chance of being paid off.
BofA did get fined for some of their POST-CRASH foreclosures, but the fines were so small that they treated them as a business expense and continued their bad behavior.
Yes, they are getting their hands slapped, but that's all they're getting and it's mostly for things they have continued doing after the crash. Bad bad Charley (tap tap on the wrist) no more serial killing! Now take this million dollars and go reform yourself.
You seem to be mistaken. Nobody went on trial. A few paid what amounted to a traffic ticket. Many billions in fraud have been ignored.
There were a few more fines for continuing wrongdoing after the crash (for example, B of A), but even there most of the activity went un-punished. So again, the entire financial sector. Each and every last one of them.
Imagine if an individual helped terrorists launder money. What do you suppose the odds are that they would be around to open their shop the next day?
Losing everything was a natural consequence of their actions. It had nothing to do with law enforcement efforts. Plenty of others were saved from their own malfeasance by a huge bailout check.
Even where fines were issued, ten cents on the dollar for a very profitable crime isn't so much a punishment as it is a fine. Imagine if counterfeiting carried the same penalty. Everyone would try it.
Or perhaps that happens to a lot of people but since it isn't distressing, they just assume that's how it is for everyone or they count themselves lucky.
What makes you think he is free to spend the money he makes? You didn't think the feds have a sense of fair play, did you?
Because the feds have seized his assets and surprise, surprise, won't let him spend any defending his employees.
So complain about the d-bag feds.
Here's the deal. I will charge you with rape, murder, child molestation, bank robbery, and having a bad attitude. The minimum sentence will be 40 years, but I'm going for the max. the trial will take about a year. The cost will put your wife and children on the street and leave you with the world's most overworked public defender, so you better believe I'll get that conviction.
OR...you could plead guilty to aggravated littering and with time served we can have you home by Friday.
The entire finance industry. Crash the world economy and ...crickets.
Very few things in our civilization can long resist a deliberate attempt to break them.
Throw a brick at your window this evening and see what happens. Open your dishwasher and stand on the door. Let us know how that works out.
When that stopped turning up bugs, they moved it to Stable.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AFAIK it still can't deal with actually booting all the way up with a degraded (but functional) disk array.
Perhaps it's because you're averting your eyes. A pro-systemd presentation shows Tux as a borg. Any questions?
Six whole people voted and the tie had to be broken by the chair. Not exactly a powerful mandate.
If it was XP, you can go fuck yourself.
FOADIIF.
But no, it was not XP.
Given that games are normally full screen and do their own thing for the UI, that would tend to make the Windows UI shortcomings less relevant.
SCP moves one file. SSH doesn't move any. RDP makes every file the target has access to directly accessible as a file share on the client even if you don't want it to.
CryptoLocker running on the client wouldn't have seen the files the target could access at all had the connection been VNC, X, or ssh.
Alternatively, the maintainers say "OH MY GOD, it's so tangled up it'll take me 3 years just to cut this Gordian knot! I'll have to include systemd and hope for the best".
Funny, I seem to have gotten 'lucky' three times in a row.
We don't want it. Get over it.
Pretty much the systemd advocates are running around pissing on everything in the store all the while yelling about how if you don't like piss you should buy simething that hasn't been pissed on. Of course if they see you head for a shelf, they'll do their best to run and piss on it before you get there.
Funny, the non-systemd install I did last just worked AND it was easy to modify where needed.
Some of the features of systemd aren't a bad idea if they could get over their insecurity and not have it plant unnecessary tendrils all over.
For example, why in the world does systemd need to have a boot loader growing out of the side of it's head?
I didn't have any problems at all with my laptop. Linux just worked out of the box. I didn't have to do a lot of shopping around for it, I just looked over the broad overview and weeded out the ones with junky hardware (that I wouldn't want in a Windows box either).
The last time I had to do heavy Googling and schlep driver disks around was installing Windows on a new-ish desktop machine.
As for Windows 8, even long time MS fans rejected that one in droves.
Yes, since the systemd supporters didn't like sysvinit, they certainly should have forked a distro and put systemd in it. I wonder why they didn't just do that?
Perhaps if you read a news site like slashdot, for example, you would have seen a few articles about people putting such a distro together. You might have even gone the extra mile and subscribed to their mailing list where you would see actual progress being made.
Nah, it's much easier to just bitch about people who didn't drink your cool aid on slash....HEY! Wait a minute!
I guess you just delete anything from memory that might keep you from dumping on people!