> First of all, why is the Teacher's Union demonized here but the prison guards or border guards' union is not?
Who is going to complain about prison guards? Felons?
Out of sight, out of mind...
Teachers, on the other hand, will be coming into contact with plenty of respectable types like voters and homeowners and small business owners.
No one cares if the prisons fail to rehabilitate people. Felons have already been written off by society. The same can't be said of schools and teachers.
> And the tenure process is rigorous and as full of hard work as any other promotion process at any company or organization.
In what other industry can I get a sweet deal like that? It doesn't matter how talented or charming I am, my current position is effectively temporary. It's the same for pretty much everyone else too (except for teachers).
This must be strictly about renters. Real estate prices are so bad in California that a lot of people who would be home owners anywhere else in the US live in rental apartments.
It's these people that are likely getting squeezed out by people that are able to pay more.
It's probably about lack of rent control rather than grandfather clauses in the tax code.
It sounds like the landlords are the ones making out like bandits, and these idiots have completely misdirected their actions.
> The summery itself mentioned this. These people are unable to pay rising property taxes....
That's just California for you. Much of the insane real estate speculation from the last bubble came from California and infected other places. Prices for land increase there at an alarming rate quite unlike most other places.
if the economy is doing well AT ALL, then prices will go up and your taxes will go up. The only really good way around that is to be a blighted community like Oakland or Detroit.
These morons are just cursing the obvious mathematics of the place.
Yes. The big cities of California are expensive places to live. You're just now finding that out?
> Perkins is disingenuously attempting to draw the technology workers onto his side by calling them 1%ers,
Oh no. The stupid protesters beat him to it. It's these stupid "townies" (or whatever you want to call them) that are lumping in mere workers with the 1%.
It's the "townies" that are attacking workers with decent jobs. It's the "townies" that are making this a class war focusing on "their own kind". The main difference is that Google employees were just slightly better at preparing for their futures.
These are probably the morons that blew off school or didn't bother to determine whether their student loans would be a good investment. HELL, some of these idiots might even be the sort that had "mummy and daddy" pay for their education. They might even be RICHER families than the people they're attacking.
No. The real irony here is that Apple started out as something distinct and then ultimately ended up as just another PC vendor before they started neglecting that in favor of personal electronics.
...and here is another problem with this kind of half-baked nonsense.
Linux benefits from being just another Linux. It may not be "certified" but it is close enough to the other real Unixen that it can be treated as one of the fold.
Nonsense like this just widens the distance between Linux and other Unix.
If I wanted Apple style nonsense, I would use a Mac.
> Wayland probably won't be able to perfectly replicate your perfect 1992 X experience, because nobody (who isn't the kind of fucking retard who runs shit remotely just to make themselves feel like one computer isn't enough power for them) gives a shit about doing that kind of thing any more.
What hole have you been hiding in?
Remote desktops are all the rage now. They are very common in corporations and even "regular people" are using them.
The rest of the world has caught up to the 1992 X experience. Now clueless nitwits want to set us back 30 years because they think it's trendy or some such.
> And the best thing is that X is no longer network transparent, it's network capable in a way similar to vnc
Then why is VNC so god-damned awful in comparison? Even on a fast local wired network VNC sucks great big donkey balls. VNC on a local network is less usable than either RDP or X (with compression) are across the Internet.
The disaster that is VNC on MacOS is why I find the idea of Wayland so repugnant.
There's no good reason they couldn't make a profit on iTunes style PPV. The fact that they can't or won't right now just indicates an economic instability that is bound to be corrected sooner or later. Big content is taking advantage of a situation that really isn't sustainable and it will crash sooner or later.
> Except when that user uses their computer to develop non GPL software.
There is always another user.
The user is what ultimately matters, not some robber baron wannabe.
The distinction between "using" and "creating derivative works" is not something that RMS came up with on it's own. It was already there in Copyright Law and would exist with or without him.
>>The result it that some software turns into a hand-out for companies that, in the long term, are trying to make free software disappear. > > No company is trying to do that, especially not one that is relying on free software for their products.
Apple is.
Their current flagship platform is openly hostile to Free Software and even the concept of open systems where the end user has full control over the hardware.
Out of curiosity, I looked into how much revenue a top rated network sitcom earns for a single broadcast. That amount was equal to how much revenue would have been generated by 1/10th of their viewing audience paying for the SD version of the episode on Amazon or iTunes.
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Tenure as property?
You're really running off the rails there. You will convince NO ONE of anything with that kind of argument.
Well, nothing positive anyways...
> First of all, why is the Teacher's Union demonized here but the prison guards or border guards' union is not?
Who is going to complain about prison guards? Felons?
Out of sight, out of mind...
Teachers, on the other hand, will be coming into contact with plenty of respectable types like voters and homeowners and small business owners.
No one cares if the prisons fail to rehabilitate people. Felons have already been written off by society. The same can't be said of schools and teachers.
My high school English teacher would give that "family of teachers" guy an F.
He taught us about proper rhetoric. I shudder to think what those "professionals" are doing in class.
Also, I've thought teachers are idiots pretty much forever. This includes elementary school. So it's no new thing by any stretch.
The other stuff (including money) doesn't matter so much. Parents do need to be involved. Teachers likely may not like it though.
> And the tenure process is rigorous and as full of hard work as any other promotion process at any company or organization.
In what other industry can I get a sweet deal like that? It doesn't matter how talented or charming I am, my current position is effectively temporary. It's the same for pretty much everyone else too (except for teachers).
> Care to enlighten?
This must be strictly about renters. Real estate prices are so bad in California that a lot of people who would be home owners anywhere else in the US live in rental apartments.
It's these people that are likely getting squeezed out by people that are able to pay more.
It's probably about lack of rent control rather than grandfather clauses in the tax code.
It sounds like the landlords are the ones making out like bandits, and these idiots have completely misdirected their actions.
> The summery itself mentioned this. These people are unable to pay rising property taxes....
That's just California for you. Much of the insane real estate speculation from the last bubble came from California and infected other places. Prices for land increase there at an alarming rate quite unlike most other places.
if the economy is doing well AT ALL, then prices will go up and your taxes will go up. The only really good way around that is to be a blighted community like Oakland or Detroit.
These morons are just cursing the obvious mathematics of the place.
Yes. The big cities of California are expensive places to live. You're just now finding that out?
> You have your neighborhood back.
and you find yourself living in New Detroit.
That's OK. You can chase away all of the employers. I am sure there are other cities that would be happy to have them.
Come east and leave those eurotrash wannabes behind.
> The line workers are part of the organization. As they are not slaves, they chose to be there and share part of the responsibility.
This is very much a glass house situation.
You really don't want to go there.
NO ONE is in a position to deny themselves employment because the company that is offering them a job is "evil".
NO ONE.
> Perkins is disingenuously attempting to draw the technology workers onto his side by calling them 1%ers,
Oh no. The stupid protesters beat him to it. It's these stupid "townies" (or whatever you want to call them) that are lumping in mere workers with the 1%.
It's the "townies" that are attacking workers with decent jobs. It's the "townies" that are making this a class war focusing on "their own kind". The main difference is that Google employees were just slightly better at preparing for their futures.
These are probably the morons that blew off school or didn't bother to determine whether their student loans would be a good investment. HELL, some of these idiots might even be the sort that had "mummy and daddy" pay for their education. They might even be RICHER families than the people they're attacking.
No. The real irony here is that Apple started out as something distinct and then ultimately ended up as just another PC vendor before they started neglecting that in favor of personal electronics.
> True. But Apple doesn't use standard components except the HDD.
They look standard enough on a PCI bus. They just aren't arranged in a terribly standardized (or maintainable) way.
This is why Linux and Windows have no problem running on Macs.
...and here is another problem with this kind of half-baked nonsense.
Linux benefits from being just another Linux. It may not be "certified" but it is close enough to the other real Unixen that it can be treated as one of the fold.
Nonsense like this just widens the distance between Linux and other Unix.
If I wanted Apple style nonsense, I would use a Mac.
> it couldn't possibly be any worse than X.
But it can be worse. It can do less and will have no decent device driver support.
The developer priesthood needs to venture forth from it's echo chamber once in awhile and actually observe real end users.
> Wayland probably won't be able to perfectly replicate your perfect 1992 X experience, because nobody (who isn't the kind of fucking retard who runs shit remotely just to make themselves feel like one computer isn't enough power for them) gives a shit about doing that kind of thing any more.
What hole have you been hiding in?
Remote desktops are all the rage now. They are very common in corporations and even "regular people" are using them.
The rest of the world has caught up to the 1992 X experience. Now clueless nitwits want to set us back 30 years because they think it's trendy or some such.
> And the best thing is that X is no longer network transparent, it's network capable in a way similar to vnc
Then why is VNC so god-damned awful in comparison? Even on a fast local wired network VNC sucks great big donkey balls. VNC on a local network is less usable than either RDP or X (with compression) are across the Internet.
The disaster that is VNC on MacOS is why I find the idea of Wayland so repugnant.
A mouse driven text editor is nice as a set of training wheels but kind of a drag if you ever get anywhere beyond total novice.
Usable the first time you sit down with it and usable 10 years later aren't always the same thing.
> There will always be ads.
Then there will always be crackers in Antigua providing up to date decryption tools to get rid of the crap and nonsense.
My entertainment experience has been ad free since the introduction of the Tivo in 99.
You laugh but suburbanites are like the Stepford Wives. If you don't conform, they will tell their children to shun your children.
Now that I've cut the cord, I'm wondering when Montag is going to show up.
The cost of a sitcom is absurdly inflated.
There's no good reason they couldn't make a profit on iTunes style PPV. The fact that they can't or won't right now just indicates an economic instability that is bound to be corrected sooner or later. Big content is taking advantage of a situation that really isn't sustainable and it will crash sooner or later.
> If this wasn't true the Beatles wouldn't be the most pirated band in the world.
The Beatles? Really? You must be joking.
Any of their stuff is likely OLDER THAN YOU ARE.
That's not even real piracy. That's just the public domain being taken back by the masses.
You picked a piss poor example of the "injustice of piracy".
> Except when that user uses their computer to develop non GPL software.
There is always another user.
The user is what ultimately matters, not some robber baron wannabe.
The distinction between "using" and "creating derivative works" is not something that RMS came up with on it's own. It was already there in Copyright Law and would exist with or without him.
Both you and your corporate lawyers need to stop fellating Microsoft.
> Because from what I've seen the two biggest users are Apple, who give back with projects like CUPS,
You mean that project that was fully formed and perfectly usable long before Apple decided to "buy" it.
If Apple did in fact actually improve CUPS, it's very non-obvious.
>>The result it that some software turns into a hand-out for companies that, in the long term, are trying to make free software disappear.
>
> No company is trying to do that, especially not one that is relying on free software for their products.
Apple is.
Their current flagship platform is openly hostile to Free Software and even the concept of open systems where the end user has full control over the hardware.
Out of curiosity, I looked into how much revenue a top rated network sitcom earns for a single broadcast. That amount was equal to how much revenue would have been generated by 1/10th of their viewing audience paying for the SD version of the episode on Amazon or iTunes.