Unionization has worked pretty well for us under the situation described here. As to unions sucking, my experience is that really depends on the union in question. My union - Industrial Workers of the World - is fairly small, so it doesn't have all the resources a large union has for dealing with a large employer, but it is run on a grass-roots democratic basis and has constitutional bars from spending money on political measures. Its dues are also trivially low (the absolute highest rate is $18/month). I've never heard of Wobblies being made to go on strike or otherwise do anything that they didn't decide on at the local level.
Sexual dimorphism of sentience?
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A number of the major species in the Known Space stories have only male sentients; Kzin, Slavers, arguably Puppeteers. Is there some hidden message here?
One of the criticisms i've heard of OpenBSD -
merited or not - is that it faces the past, and
concentrates more on fixing an existing model
than on exploring new opportunities. Do you see
OpenBSD sticking with its 4.4BSD baseline for
the forseeable future, or would you consider
moving towards a post-UNIX model like Plan 9?
And speaking of Plan 9, what do you think of
the Plan 9 License,
http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html
The Bris Pocket Sextant would be a cool gift in
the sub-Playstation range, and involves more
geek-factor than the GPS.
http://www.yrvind.com/bris/bris-sextant.html
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Unionization has worked pretty well for us under the situation described here. As to unions sucking, my experience is that really depends on the union in question. My union - Industrial Workers of the World - is fairly small, so it doesn't have all the resources a large union has for dealing with a large employer, but it is run on a grass-roots democratic basis and has constitutional bars from spending money on political measures. Its dues are also trivially low (the absolute highest rate is $18/month). I've never heard of Wobblies being made to go on strike or otherwise do anything that they didn't decide on at the local level.
A number of the major species in the Known Space
stories have only male sentients; Kzin, Slavers,
arguably Puppeteers. Is there some hidden message
here?
One of the criticisms i've heard of OpenBSD - merited or not - is that it faces the past, and concentrates more on fixing an existing model than on exploring new opportunities. Do you see OpenBSD sticking with its 4.4BSD baseline for the forseeable future, or would you consider moving towards a post-UNIX model like Plan 9? And speaking of Plan 9, what do you think of the Plan 9 License, http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html
The Bris Pocket Sextant would be a cool gift in the sub-Playstation range, and involves more geek-factor than the GPS. http://www.yrvind.com/bris/bris-sextant.html