Still on Struts 1.2, updating the source code myself to add various missing functionality (various missing attributes that really make the job much easier in many cases). It's amazing how much more life you can squeeze out of that framework simply by extending it.
This is just a tiny, minute symptom of the real problem in America, which is lack of individual freedoms, completely destruction of Constitutional government, government ruled by the law, which means government that does not go beyond its few authorised functions, a government that applies laws equally to all people regardless of their circumstances. USA government (and the so called 'justice system') is not ruled by the Constitution - the Supreme law of the land, no. It is a system of systems, so to speak, a system that exists only for one purpose, to promote its own power, to increase its own power. It is not a system that exists to ensure rights of people and general welfare (which does not mean personal welfare), it exists to promote power of the few over the many and it promotes special cases of personal welfare in enormous quantities for the select few and in special quantities for at least half of the population to ensure that the government can maintain its power. The government power depends squarely on the tacit and explicit approval by the mob, the crowd. A civil war is inevitable, it will follow the economic implosion. Make sure that once that happens you don't set up another form of totalitarian government but instead you set up a libertarian one.
Sure, people need goals and objectives and they need the FREEDOM to set those goals and objectives in their own lives by themselves, they don't need ANY activist, destroying privately generated wealth on insane collectivist ideology proposals, be that wars or Moon landings.
If somebody wants to land on a Moon privately, let them build a company and collect money from like-minded individuals to fly there. Let free people actually be free people for once.
Yes, the implications being that we will no longer be limited in our creativity by the extremely short lifespan, which means we can spend much more energy actually figuring out the answers to the irrelevant questions of 'limited resources', because our resources are only limited to our imagination and short lives.
Of-course we need end to end encryption, but that will not stop the governments from attempting to legislate against such encrypted traffic and will not attempt the governments from regulating ISPs, forcing them maybe to drop traffic that is encrypted in a way that cannot be circumvented entirely.
The only thing that will stop governments from doing so is adherence to the Constitutional principles and limited government authority, but if you read/. stories and replies, you will realise that it is not a goal for most people, most people want government authority above and beyond any Constitutional principles and limits. Yes, this story is about Australia, not the USA, but the logic is exactly the same. Either you have a small government with very limited authority and you make sure that it stays that way, or you allow the mob to vote for freebies offered by the politicians in exchange for votes and you eventually end up with a totalitarian regime and no individual freedoms at all.
Oil used to be 13 dollars a barrel in the late nineties (circa 1999). The inflation (money creation) is 800 percent since that time, now that the price of oil is over 104 dollars a barrel.
Inflation is expansion of the money supply, nothing else. This is how much money has devalued over this short period of time.
Wrong, wrong and once again: wrong. You can't adjust for inflation based on the mainstream definition of inflation, which is completely off the rocker. Real inflation is a number of times higher than the numbers that are being propagandised for the popular consumption. Quite the opposite, if you want to understand inflation, look at the prices of oil.
As to supply and demand, the world is producing much more oil and gas today than it produced previously and even with growth of demand, the supply is still able to cover the demand. What the supply cannot do is fight inflation.
Cost of oil has nothing to do with Keystone pipeline and such, it is directly related to the value (lack of value) of the dollar.
But you can still thank your federal government with the Federal reserve for that. Just like you can thank them for the prices of food going up (and of-course all other prices, including the stock and bond and housing markets' prices, which is their intention in the first place)
Don't you worry about increasing prices, your government, the Federal reserve, main stream 'economists' and all the media is telling you that you don't have inflation... all that while the Fed is printing money like crazy, you know it as QE, but that's just an euphemism for inflation.
All of the recent articles that are coming out are trying to justify prices going up with 'bad weather', 'disease' even 'cartels'.
The reality is of-course that the only real reason your prices are going up is because the value of your money is being destroyed and you are being fed propaganda that it is exactly what you need: more inflation.
The ONLY people that would NOT buy something today if they knew that tomorrow the item they are after would fall in price are INVESTORS, who will not buy an asset if they expect the price of an asset to drop.
Normal consumers buy things today because they need them today, they even pay a PREMIUM for these things (since they are buying so much on credit, so the cost of credit should be also counted towards the cost of the items they buy).
The standard arguments for inflation are all nonsense, government propaganda. They are brainwashing all of you, every day, every minute of every day, and so many people end up arguing for this government propaganda, that you can be certain about one thing: people are stupid and advertising works very well.
As to beef and milk prices, again, that's inflation. But ALSO you can blame other government created problems, such as this nonsense that started a couple of decades ago, where large factory beef and milk producers (factory farmers) lobbied the federal government to impose these new taxes on small ranches, that used State lands to allow their livestock to graze there. That is by the way, what you are observing in Nevada. When the feds come to a State land with land taxes, taxes on the land that they are not actually involved with, taxing lands where they are not building any infrastructure, then you know that there are special interests in play.
How many small ranches were shut down because they couldn't afford the millions of dollars that they would have to pay for letting their cows graze on those lands (that nobody else uses for any purpose)? This is lobbying by the factory farms, the type that holds cows in enclosed cages, where the cows never see any grazing lands at all.
Anyway, enjoy your inflation, enjoy your lobbying, all of it is just a reflection of one singular problem: the federal government usurping unauthorised powers to destroy your individual rights. But at least learn what exactly is happening around you.
I bet the same question was asked by buggy whip makers back in the day (and the same solutions were proposed by them as are getting +5Insightful in this story).
You are correct in that the Republicans in the USA are not actually free market capitalists, which is what USA is supposed to be - a free market capitalist Republic.
Republicans are not different from Democrats in that they have their own constituents and those are the people that are tightly connected to the government and the Federal reserve is sponsoring them.
Unfortunately for the USA (and really for the world in general) USA Republic has degenerated into a 'democracy', which really only means that the majority of people are kept in the dark of who is truly running the show, but that is the problem with the mob, the collective, you can't have a democracy that does not degenerate into oligarchy, because the people are stupid and will vote against their self interest, however when I say that I do NOT mean what the average/.er means. I do NOT mean that voting for free market capitalism is voting against your own self interest, quite the contrary. An average (not one of the top wealthiest people) person should always vote LIBERTARIAN (or more correctly - free market capitalist, whatever that is. It can be a libertarian or it can be an anarcho capitalist or an objectivist, doesn't really matter much which one of those).
However the mob votes for the short term satisfaction that is promised by any lizard politician and the end result is always the same: the politicians end up with all the power, the individuals end up stripped of their rights and of their property, basically of their right to pursue happiness on their own terms.
The politicians end up gatekeepers for the top most connected people, the government is a mafia that uses threat of violence to destroy individual freedoms and sell them to the top bidders.
Free market capitalist republic (or even a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore) works to improve the conditions for all people by allowing the true private property rights and self determination, people work to improve their own situation and as a result they increase the overall wealth in the system. The top wealthiest people do NOT need free market capitalism, they are just fine within a system that is corrupt, they can afford to purchase the gate keepers.
It is the middle class and the POOREST of the people that benefit from free market capitalism, they get the lowest prices and the biggest selection of all products and services that the system builds.
19th century USA was a very good example of what free market capitalist system does to improve the standard of living for all people, not for the richest people, but for everybody. The standard of living was rising faster than at any other time in history because of the freedom, private property rights, the rule of law (rule of law means applying laws equally to everybody regardless of their personal circumstance, that is true justice and morality, not what the mob thinks morality and justice are).
Today that example is found in Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, China, but actually the Scandinavian countries have been on the correct path for the last 20 years, since the time they started moving in the right direction 20 years ago, when they finally destroyed their economies with socialism. Today they are much more capitalistic and responsible (have little to no debt) than the so called 'capitalist' nations like the USA.
Of-course currently the ECONOMIC STUPIDITY is reaching some insane local maximum, with the vast majority of the population believing in nonsense, Keynesianism, socialism, welfare state, other such equally destructive patterns of behaviour, so for example in Switzerland there will be a referendum to attempt and introduce a minimum wage and a welfare system, those are huge mistakes and the only reason the Swiss can even talk about it is the fact that they grew their economy so much in an actual free market capitalist system, so now they just may be ready to start destroying it with the socialist nonsense.
In any case, as I said, people are very very stupid
... ask yourself a question, why is it that everything in USA was done "up until the 1970s" and then all of a sudden there was a gigantic decline (from building, to meaningful manufacturing jobs, to wage disparity, to ability to afford anything, etc.etc.etc.)?
So what is it that happened in the 70s that changed the USA economy so much? 1971 - Nixon defaults on the gold US dollar. The reason? Inflation that was caused by the Fed, all the massive government that could never be paid for with any amount of taxes (never mind the insane tax rates before that time).
It's the government, my dear, USA government has destroyed USA economy.
What if this was not 'OpenSSL' but instead it was some form of 'ClosedSSL' library that had this problem in it?
NSA would still have access to THAT code, you can bet your ass they would, they wouldn't leave a project like that alone. However nobody else would know (unless stumbling upon it by chance or being able to access the source OR if some insider SOLD that information to somebody on the outside and now you'd have a vulnerability that is exploited by the gov't and by shadiest of the organisations/people out there).
This does not change the discussion in terms of open source code being safer, this changes the discussion around certain practices of development / testing and also this may attract more attention of people towards the SECURITY of our information on the Internet and hopefully we'll move in the direction of working out the details of actually much more SECURE methods of communications.
I certainly have a few ideas of my own that I would like to implement now, but never mind that. The point is that this is good stuff, it finally shed a light on this topic, that should have had much more light on it for a much longer period of time in the first place.
We need better methods around building security within our systems and I think this raises the bar.
by "whining" are you implying that I do not vote in firehose? Is that your professional opinion, I mean, are you paid to believe that or is this just a result of being an ass, your statement here?
By the way, if we are already on the topic of taxes, anybody who is interested should listen to this show, not only does it discuss the illegality of taxes, but also it provides some insight on what the USA citizens doing today to reduce their taxes (offshore accounts, etc.etc.)
Americans, you need to listen to this of-course, you should eliminate your federal government, a good step towards that (before you end up shooting the bastards) is to stop paying your taxes.
USA government is unconstitutional, it has abandoned the principles upon which the Republic was established. There are no private property rights anymore. This started with the Sherman's act and continued into everything, from income taxes themselves, IRS, the Fed destroying the value of the people's savings, all of the departments, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, payroll taxes, every type of income related tax of-course.
The correct thing to do is to remove USA federal government from power, which it usurped illegally and unconstitutionally and it must be removed from power immediately, by force and with extreme prejudice. Of-course this means that people must not give up any of its earnings to the central mafia that is known as the federal government.
The point is you are an ignoramus of enormous proportions. The rise in wealth in USA was due to the so called 'robber barons', which created entire new industries and allowed the economy to flourish around them. The 'trust busting' was the beginning of the DESTRUCTION of the economy, as it started destroying the principles of private property rights. Government destroys the economy, it doesn't create it, the economy has to be created first for it to be destroyed by the government, and the private sector in the USA built a mighty economy that it took the growing USA government this long to destroy it.
Internet is critical infrastructure, which is precisely why it must NOT be in the hands of any government (and no other infrastructure should either, because it is illegal, immoral but also really stupid - if you want something to work, you don't give it to government).
So once again, if you want a 'socially responsible' company that you think will survive being exactly what you want it to be, set one up and do with it as you wish. You want OTHER people to do something for you, well, tough, other people shouldn't be forced to hire you or do anything for you that you believe you are entitled to and you believe they are obligated.
I run a company, I hire people the way I want to hire people, I fire people the way I want to fire people. I provide my employees with this information upfront, it's their choice to take or not to take the job. I tell them exactly what I will pay them and if they don't like it, they are 100% free to find some other guy to work for. I have no interest in anything you call 'social responsibility', in fact I do not believe in such nonsense in the first place. I only have responsibility to myself and I have responsibility to be HONEST with people I hire, that's all.
You think there should be some other responsibility: take your own money and start your own company to provide that. That's not why I run my company, YMMV.
we have a major problem with companies not being socially responsible. they don't care that an aging population is being wholesale REJECTED by corporate america and worse than that, local US born and raised citizens are second class, now; with imported labor or outsourced labor being first class.
- so, TheGratefulNet, start your own company and hire whoever you like. Once you do that, you'll quickly figure out that you can't survive as a company, hiring unskilled labor at minimum wage labor prices, having to deal with payroll taxes, medicare (ACA now), income taxes and all the other taxes and that's AFTER you having to figure out what exactly you will be using your savings (or borrowed capital) to build as a software company.
Level of public science funding should be precisely 0 (that would be zero, as in nothing at all). The Internet would have existed regardless, individual people must not be forced to become slaves to the collective even to publicly fund science or health or education or food or anything, not even little cute orphans should be publicly funded, there is 0 authorisation for any of this and there should be 0 authorisation for any of this and if YOU want to fund something, that's what you have YOUR OWN bank account and you can set up a charity to donate to your particular cause.
In Russia big business does NOT happen without involvement of government officials, who all EXPECT bribes and will NOT allow you to build your business if you do not pay them what they want.
So HP or whoever it is, if they want to deal in Russia they will be paying bribes to the politicians, there is no way around it at all. You can either do big business in Russia and as an ABSOLUTE requirement you will pay bribes, or you can forget about that market completely.
But hey, if you are talking about locking up the POLITICIANS that expect bribes, then I am 100% with you.
So what this law does is preventing people who want to do more from doing it, making it illegal for people who want to climb the corporate ladder faster from attempting that.
I am sure that the French will figure out a simple way around this law, after all if an employer sets up a newsgroup and posts to it after hours, who can prevent employees that are interested in reading what the boss posts from subscribing?
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Still on Struts 1.2, updating the source code myself to add various missing functionality (various missing attributes that really make the job much easier in many cases). It's amazing how much more life you can squeeze out of that framework simply by extending it.
This is just a tiny, minute symptom of the real problem in America, which is lack of individual freedoms, completely destruction of Constitutional government, government ruled by the law, which means government that does not go beyond its few authorised functions, a government that applies laws equally to all people regardless of their circumstances. USA government (and the so called 'justice system') is not ruled by the Constitution - the Supreme law of the land, no. It is a system of systems, so to speak, a system that exists only for one purpose, to promote its own power, to increase its own power. It is not a system that exists to ensure rights of people and general welfare (which does not mean personal welfare), it exists to promote power of the few over the many and it promotes special cases of personal welfare in enormous quantities for the select few and in special quantities for at least half of the population to ensure that the government can maintain its power. The government power depends squarely on the tacit and explicit approval by the mob, the crowd. A civil war is inevitable, it will follow the economic implosion. Make sure that once that happens you don't set up another form of totalitarian government but instead you set up a libertarian one.
Sure, people need goals and objectives and they need the FREEDOM to set those goals and objectives in their own lives by themselves, they don't need ANY activist, destroying privately generated wealth on insane collectivist ideology proposals, be that wars or Moon landings.
If somebody wants to land on a Moon privately, let them build a company and collect money from like-minded individuals to fly there. Let free people actually be free people for once.
Yes, the implications being that we will no longer be limited in our creativity by the extremely short lifespan, which means we can spend much more energy actually figuring out the answers to the irrelevant questions of 'limited resources', because our resources are only limited to our imagination and short lives.
Of-course we need end to end encryption, but that will not stop the governments from attempting to legislate against such encrypted traffic and will not attempt the governments from regulating ISPs, forcing them maybe to drop traffic that is encrypted in a way that cannot be circumvented entirely.
The only thing that will stop governments from doing so is adherence to the Constitutional principles and limited government authority, but if you read /. stories and replies, you will realise that it is not a goal for most people, most people want government authority above and beyond any Constitutional principles and limits. Yes, this story is about Australia, not the USA, but the logic is exactly the same. Either you have a small government with very limited authority and you make sure that it stays that way, or you allow the mob to vote for freebies offered by the politicians in exchange for votes and you eventually end up with a totalitarian regime and no individual freedoms at all.
But the question was already answered long ago. Don't you remember?
YES WE CAN!
Oil used to be 13 dollars a barrel in the late nineties (circa 1999). The inflation (money creation) is 800 percent since that time, now that the price of oil is over 104 dollars a barrel.
Inflation is expansion of the money supply, nothing else. This is how much money has devalued over this short period of time.
Wrong, wrong and once again: wrong. You can't adjust for inflation based on the mainstream definition of inflation, which is completely off the rocker. Real inflation is a number of times higher than the numbers that are being propagandised for the popular consumption. Quite the opposite, if you want to understand inflation, look at the prices of oil.
As to supply and demand, the world is producing much more oil and gas today than it produced previously and even with growth of demand, the supply is still able to cover the demand. What the supply cannot do is fight inflation.
Cost of oil has nothing to do with Keystone pipeline and such, it is directly related to the value (lack of value) of the dollar.
But you can still thank your federal government with the Federal reserve for that. Just like you can thank them for the prices of food going up (and of-course all other prices, including the stock and bond and housing markets' prices, which is their intention in the first place)
Don't you worry about increasing prices, your government, the Federal reserve, main stream 'economists' and all the media is telling you that you don't have inflation... all that while the Fed is printing money like crazy, you know it as QE, but that's just an euphemism for inflation.
All of the recent articles that are coming out are trying to justify prices going up with 'bad weather', 'disease' even 'cartels'.
The reality is of-course that the only real reason your prices are going up is because the value of your money is being destroyed and you are being fed propaganda that it is exactly what you need: more inflation.
The ONLY people that would NOT buy something today if they knew that tomorrow the item they are after would fall in price are INVESTORS, who will not buy an asset if they expect the price of an asset to drop.
Normal consumers buy things today because they need them today, they even pay a PREMIUM for these things (since they are buying so much on credit, so the cost of credit should be also counted towards the cost of the items they buy).
The standard arguments for inflation are all nonsense, government propaganda. They are brainwashing all of you, every day, every minute of every day, and so many people end up arguing for this government propaganda, that you can be certain about one thing: people are stupid and advertising works very well.
As to beef and milk prices, again, that's inflation. But ALSO you can blame other government created problems, such as this nonsense that started a couple of decades ago, where large factory beef and milk producers (factory farmers) lobbied the federal government to impose these new taxes on small ranches, that used State lands to allow their livestock to graze there. That is by the way, what you are observing in Nevada. When the feds come to a State land with land taxes, taxes on the land that they are not actually involved with, taxing lands where they are not building any infrastructure, then you know that there are special interests in play.
How many small ranches were shut down because they couldn't afford the millions of dollars that they would have to pay for letting their cows graze on those lands (that nobody else uses for any purpose)? This is lobbying by the factory farms, the type that holds cows in enclosed cages, where the cows never see any grazing lands at all.
Anyway, enjoy your inflation, enjoy your lobbying, all of it is just a reflection of one singular problem: the federal government usurping unauthorised powers to destroy your individual rights. But at least learn what exactly is happening around you.
I bet the same question was asked by buggy whip makers back in the day (and the same solutions were proposed by them as are getting +5Insightful in this story).
You are correct in that the Republicans in the USA are not actually free market capitalists, which is what USA is supposed to be - a free market capitalist Republic.
Republicans are not different from Democrats in that they have their own constituents and those are the people that are tightly connected to the government and the Federal reserve is sponsoring them.
Unfortunately for the USA (and really for the world in general) USA Republic has degenerated into a 'democracy', which really only means that the majority of people are kept in the dark of who is truly running the show, but that is the problem with the mob, the collective, you can't have a democracy that does not degenerate into oligarchy, because the people are stupid and will vote against their self interest, however when I say that I do NOT mean what the average /.er means. I do NOT mean that voting for free market capitalism is voting against your own self interest, quite the contrary. An average (not one of the top wealthiest people) person should always vote LIBERTARIAN (or more correctly - free market capitalist, whatever that is. It can be a libertarian or it can be an anarcho capitalist or an objectivist, doesn't really matter much which one of those).
However the mob votes for the short term satisfaction that is promised by any lizard politician and the end result is always the same: the politicians end up with all the power, the individuals end up stripped of their rights and of their property, basically of their right to pursue happiness on their own terms.
The politicians end up gatekeepers for the top most connected people, the government is a mafia that uses threat of violence to destroy individual freedoms and sell them to the top bidders.
Free market capitalist republic (or even a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore) works to improve the conditions for all people by allowing the true private property rights and self determination, people work to improve their own situation and as a result they increase the overall wealth in the system. The top wealthiest people do NOT need free market capitalism, they are just fine within a system that is corrupt, they can afford to purchase the gate keepers.
It is the middle class and the POOREST of the people that benefit from free market capitalism, they get the lowest prices and the biggest selection of all products and services that the system builds.
19th century USA was a very good example of what free market capitalist system does to improve the standard of living for all people, not for the richest people, but for everybody. The standard of living was rising faster than at any other time in history because of the freedom, private property rights, the rule of law (rule of law means applying laws equally to everybody regardless of their personal circumstance, that is true justice and morality, not what the mob thinks morality and justice are).
Today that example is found in Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, China, but actually the Scandinavian countries have been on the correct path for the last 20 years, since the time they started moving in the right direction 20 years ago, when they finally destroyed their economies with socialism. Today they are much more capitalistic and responsible (have little to no debt) than the so called 'capitalist' nations like the USA.
Of-course currently the ECONOMIC STUPIDITY is reaching some insane local maximum, with the vast majority of the population believing in nonsense, Keynesianism, socialism, welfare state, other such equally destructive patterns of behaviour, so for example in Switzerland there will be a referendum to attempt and introduce a minimum wage and a welfare system, those are huge mistakes and the only reason the Swiss can even talk about it is the fact that they grew their economy so much in an actual free market capitalist system, so now they just may be ready to start destroying it with the socialist nonsense.
In any case, as I said, people are very very stupid
Up until the 1970s we could build like craz
So what is it that happened in the 70s that changed the USA economy so much? 1971 - Nixon defaults on the gold US dollar. The reason? Inflation that was caused by the Fed, all the massive government that could never be paid for with any amount of taxes (never mind the insane tax rates before that time).
It's the government, my dear, USA government has destroyed USA economy.
What if this was not 'OpenSSL' but instead it was some form of 'ClosedSSL' library that had this problem in it?
NSA would still have access to THAT code, you can bet your ass they would, they wouldn't leave a project like that alone. However nobody else would know (unless stumbling upon it by chance or being able to access the source OR if some insider SOLD that information to somebody on the outside and now you'd have a vulnerability that is exploited by the gov't and by shadiest of the organisations/people out there).
This does not change the discussion in terms of open source code being safer, this changes the discussion around certain practices of development / testing and also this may attract more attention of people towards the SECURITY of our information on the Internet and hopefully we'll move in the direction of working out the details of actually much more SECURE methods of communications.
I certainly have a few ideas of my own that I would like to implement now, but never mind that. The point is that this is good stuff, it finally shed a light on this topic, that should have had much more light on it for a much longer period of time in the first place.
We need better methods around building security within our systems and I think this raises the bar.
by "whining" are you implying that I do not vote in firehose? Is that your professional opinion, I mean, are you paid to believe that or is this just a result of being an ass, your statement here?
By the way, if we are already on the topic of taxes, anybody who is interested should listen to this show, not only does it discuss the illegality of taxes, but also it provides some insight on what the USA citizens doing today to reduce their taxes (offshore accounts, etc.etc.)
Americans, you need to listen to this of-course, you should eliminate your federal government, a good step towards that (before you end up shooting the bastards) is to stop paying your taxes.
this is of-course a dupe, but hey, what else is new.
Ted talk on this device.
You are wrong, but that's your right to be wrong.
USA government is unconstitutional, it has abandoned the principles upon which the Republic was established. There are no private property rights anymore. This started with the Sherman's act and continued into everything, from income taxes themselves, IRS, the Fed destroying the value of the people's savings, all of the departments, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, payroll taxes, every type of income related tax of-course.
The correct thing to do is to remove USA federal government from power, which it usurped illegally and unconstitutionally and it must be removed from power immediately, by force and with extreme prejudice. Of-course this means that people must not give up any of its earnings to the central mafia that is known as the federal government.
The point is you are an ignoramus of enormous proportions. The rise in wealth in USA was due to the so called 'robber barons', which created entire new industries and allowed the economy to flourish around them. The 'trust busting' was the beginning of the DESTRUCTION of the economy, as it started destroying the principles of private property rights. Government destroys the economy, it doesn't create it, the economy has to be created first for it to be destroyed by the government, and the private sector in the USA built a mighty economy that it took the growing USA government this long to destroy it.
Internet is critical infrastructure, which is precisely why it must NOT be in the hands of any government (and no other infrastructure should either, because it is illegal, immoral but also really stupid - if you want something to work, you don't give it to government).
So once again, if you want a 'socially responsible' company that you think will survive being exactly what you want it to be, set one up and do with it as you wish. You want OTHER people to do something for you, well, tough, other people shouldn't be forced to hire you or do anything for you that you believe you are entitled to and you believe they are obligated.
I run a company, I hire people the way I want to hire people, I fire people the way I want to fire people. I provide my employees with this information upfront, it's their choice to take or not to take the job. I tell them exactly what I will pay them and if they don't like it, they are 100% free to find some other guy to work for. I have no interest in anything you call 'social responsibility', in fact I do not believe in such nonsense in the first place. I only have responsibility to myself and I have responsibility to be HONEST with people I hire, that's all.
You think there should be some other responsibility: take your own money and start your own company to provide that. That's not why I run my company, YMMV.
we have a major problem with companies not being socially responsible. they don't care that an aging population is being wholesale REJECTED by corporate america and worse than that, local US born and raised citizens are second class, now; with imported labor or outsourced labor being first class.
- so, TheGratefulNet, start your own company and hire whoever you like. Once you do that, you'll quickly figure out that you can't survive as a company, hiring unskilled labor at minimum wage labor prices, having to deal with payroll taxes, medicare (ACA now), income taxes and all the other taxes and that's AFTER you having to figure out what exactly you will be using your savings (or borrowed capital) to build as a software company.
Good luck.
Level of public science funding should be precisely 0 (that would be zero, as in nothing at all). The Internet would have existed regardless, individual people must not be forced to become slaves to the collective even to publicly fund science or health or education or food or anything, not even little cute orphans should be publicly funded, there is 0 authorisation for any of this and there should be 0 authorisation for any of this and if YOU want to fund something, that's what you have YOUR OWN bank account and you can set up a charity to donate to your particular cause.
Lock them up for what?
In Russia big business does NOT happen without involvement of government officials, who all EXPECT bribes and will NOT allow you to build your business if you do not pay them what they want.
So HP or whoever it is, if they want to deal in Russia they will be paying bribes to the politicians, there is no way around it at all. You can either do big business in Russia and as an ABSOLUTE requirement you will pay bribes, or you can forget about that market completely.
But hey, if you are talking about locking up the POLITICIANS that expect bribes, then I am 100% with you.
So what this law does is preventing people who want to do more from doing it, making it illegal for people who want to climb the corporate ladder faster from attempting that.
I am sure that the French will figure out a simple way around this law, after all if an employer sets up a newsgroup and posts to it after hours, who can prevent employees that are interested in reading what the boss posts from subscribing?