All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."
Yes, he was against the strikes by public unions, however without the ability to strike, the union has little teeth and no purpose but to pay dues and create a monopoly in labour.
The teachers union that was striking was clearly "preventing and obstructing the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied".
So would FDR be for a public union in this case or not? I think the answer is obvious: "unthinkable and intolerable".
You won't get an argument from me about war spending. I am against all offensive military spending. I think USA military spending can easily be cut by about 90% and the remaining amount would still be plenty enough to destroy the world on a whim. Same with other 'wars' like the drug war.
But you won't any support from me for any other government spending that is outside of the Constitution, and public funding for education is not in the Constitution.
Neither is bailing out banks with the Fed, FDIC and then with fake money (1971 gold shock) and then with fake interest rates, fake insurance programs such as FHA and F&F, TARP, stimulus and the rest of it.
Pretty much everything that government is engaged in today is illegal and highly immoral as well.
Of-course that's the real reason that the Occupiers went out there, but they are far from understanding the problem, that's why they can't deal with it.
The DHS drones see anybody from the Middle East as a terrorist of course ignoring the obvious irony that the USA is behaving like a terrorist with its drones flying over and bombing other nations.
After the security guards insisted that he must delete pictures from his film camera, they also forced him to Skype home on a rotary dial phone and beat him until he admitted in breaking and entering their bank accounts with his calculator.
Security guards, the paragons of intelligence and wisdom. They are also almost a full head above the local cops in understanding of the individual rights.
But doesn't your comment make my point? My comments are consistent, you remember that they are consistent, you know where I stand on things to a higher degree than you know of many other participants in/. discussions.
Since I am consistent in my views, it's not too difficult to see how all comments fit together, isn't it?
It's not an issue of how the code looks in terms of tabs, indents, this stuff a couple of clicks away in an IDE, the issue is in consistency of naming conventions, consistency of approach to the coding decisions. Functions, methods that are easy to read are not those with best indentation, but those with clear logical path visible in them due to choices of how algorithms are split, how variables are named, whether statics and globals are used, how constants are used, what is the logic behind splitting code into sections, packages, files.
If you are consistent about those things then you really make life easier for anybody maintaining the code.
Be consistent from one piece of code to the next, from one project to the next. Be consistent about your design ideas, be consistent in your thinking. It's going to help you and anybody else working on the same stuff.
China has the productivity, has the manufacturing sector, has the knowledge at this point, it has the infrastructure to produce. None of the countries you mentioned have it (unless China brings it to them).
USA cannot bring any of that to any of those other countries. People in USA who ran the factories have moved them to China (and other places, like Mexico for example). So it will be up to those people to move if they have to again, but they don't have to.
The problem that the Chinese people have is like all other people, it's their government.
Here is straight from the story:
State-owned Baotou Steel Rare Earth (Group) Hi-tech Co. said in a statement released through the Shanghai Stock Exchange that it suspended production Tuesday to promote "healthy development" of rare earths prices. It gave no indication when production would resume and phone calls to the company on Thursday were not answered.
What they are talking about is creating artificial scarcity by reducing productive output. This is about the dumbest thing anybody with half a brain and a factory can do. They are the biggest refiner and they are reducing capacity that they have in order to push prices up? Well, it doesn't help anybody, it doesn't help them!
By the way, just look at this behaviour. A government is engaging in something that other governments purport that private businesses do, yet private businesses do not do this, because unlike governments, private businesses know that their hold on a market is always temporary and in order to maintain it they HAVE to satisfy their customers.
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In any case, China is not going to keep this for too long, the production will restart shortly, but this is just another demonstration of the simple truth: government IS the evil, while gov't likes to push propaganda that private interests are evil. In this case gov't is evil by being stupid. Chinese gov't is stupid. It's stupid to peg the currency to US dollar at this point, Chinese would be served much more by allowing their own people to be able to purchase the products that they are creating and it would be possible for the Chinese to buy all of their productive output if the gov't wasn't pegging renminbi to USD, wasn't buying US debt.
Of-course once the Chinese stop, USA and others will suffer a terrible shock, because they won't be able to afford Chinese made goods anymore but in the long run it's good for the USA to go through a shock like that to start moving in the right direction again - re-industrialising, rebuilding the productive capacity that was lost. But this will only happen once USA hits the rock bottom with the dollar plunging into the abyss.
There won't be productive capacity anywhere else in the world for a while, certainly if China stopped pegging their currency to the US dollar tomorrow, there wouldn't be productive capacity in the rest of the world for at least a decade to replace what China is manufacturing today.
Of-course this is nothing else but government Mafia, which works with the industry and protects that industry and expects serious kickbacks, there is no other way to understand this but corruption.
All government involvement into business activity is corruption, there are no exceptions. Protectionism, special considerations for some businesses and not for others, special taxes for some businesses and not for others, special licensing deals, special relations with the Federal reserve, Treasury, special relationships with the departments, regulators, FBI, Congress, Senate, SCOTUS, POTUS, all of it.
All government intervention in business activity is corruption.
yo, dog, I heard you like bankruptcy, so I put bankruptcy into your bankruptcy so now you can go bankrupt while you are going bankrupt!
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on a more serious note, given Obama's plan (due to start in 2014) to limit repayment obligations to just 10% of 'discretionary income' (defined as total income above 150% of the federal poverty level, which is 16K for a single person or 33K for a family of 4) and given his plan to limit the term obligations to 20 years (used to be 25 years), having huge student loans at that point becomes a non-issue.
If a college grad makes 80K per year, over the 20 year span, he'd have to pay 4,500 per year back or 90K over the 20 year term.
If a college grad makes 50K per year, he'd have to shell out 1,500 per year for the grand total of 30K over 20 years!
All of this means that people should get into as much student debt as possible. Take 90K. Take 290K. Take a million. Take 10 million. It doesn't matter! Your payments are very dependent on your level of income and you will NEVER have to repay those loans in full anyway, you'll be liable for a TINY portion of it, so make it as big as possible.
When this goes through in 2014, colleges should start advertising new and exciting possibilities: GET A HOUSE AND A CAR AND BUY A DIVIDEND PAYING BUSINESS WITH YOUR STUDENT LOAN!
Why not?
Imagine how high the student debts will be, imagine how much the tuition costs will rise! It's a Brave New World (order).
Drug was is the extension of the war on individual freedoms. Nobody should be thrown into prison for either creating or selling or possessing or using drugs. Prisons are for criminals, not for consenting individuals who are not hurting anybody.
Drug was has HUGE effect on you. You are just fed enough propaganda not to see it. The effects include (in no particular order):
* further reduction of individual liberties, giving the gov't more tools and resources to limit your freedoms in other situations, not just related to the drug war.
* growing government system, which is what destroys the economy. The bigger the government, the more people are on a dole. The gov't workers are not productive members of society, they don't produce anything that anybody would voluntarily pay for, but they do want to buy all those products and services and thus their overall effect on the existing wealth (products, services) is negative. The gov't employees only add to the trade deficit, they can't reduce it.
* large prison population affects you, you have to support it (taxes, borrowing, inflation), you have to deal with the consequences of many prisoners eventually re-entering the world, which is problematic. Don't you remember Shawshank Redemption: "The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."? People are not made 'better' by any degree in prisons and since they are taken out of normal life, they lose jobs, resources and other ties to the rest of the society, they come out much poorer than they go in. It's a bad system where you force people into more poverty by dragging them through the prison system.
* corruption of all kinds, from abusing the prisoners, using them as slave labour, thus putting normal private competitive companies out of business, to giving pharma (and other) companies a reason to hire and bring more lobbyists to gov't, to give out bribes. Who are the main suspects when it comes to supporting and promoting the drug war?
* racial discrimination, leading to more hate. Drug war disproportionately hits minorities, who are disproportionately thrown to prisons, dragged through the system. This doesn't help anybody but the politicians, who gain talking points.
* more violence, since anything that is illegal still has its market, but because it's illegal, it is more lucrative. It is also a fairly simple business model, but it is dangerous because of the gov't. So there is fierce competition between gangs, all of them want a piece of that pie.
* support of various foreign drug lords, who gain immensely from the drug war. This means more violence and destruction. Maybe you think it doesn't affect you in another country, but a more violent world is a less economically stable world.
* reduction of legal economic activity. Since narcotics are illegal, there is no way to create and grow businesses, that would otherwise exist, hiring people, creating more economic activity (more tax revenue obviously).
* increased population of drug addicts! Yeah, there are more drug addicts when drugs are illegal than when they are legal. Portugal proved it. And really, why would you want more drug addicts than fewer of them? But that's what the Drug war is creating!
* more dangerous synthetic drugs. Since it's illegal to buy 'normal' narcotics, people invent all sorts of ways to get high with materials that are not banned. These drugs are actually more dangerous and have more adverse effects than many naturally occurring substances.
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I am sure there are more reasons, but basically my main point is that everybody is affected by drug war, be it prisons, be it more drug addicts, be it violence, be it reduced economic activity, be it more corruption, be it generally larger and more authoritarian government structure.
you want to be 'clearing house', so you want to be the main provider, if in fact you are that provider right now, then you can put a time delay on all new data that you gather, so that whoever mirrors it from you will get the data say 10 days after you collected it.
The servers and all that infrastructure looks very large and expensive, so of-course they have to figure out how to squeeze the most out of it in the most efficient manner. Google stock took a 13% dive over the last 2 days of the week, so it's a good time to come out with an article showing all that infrastructure.
America's output per hour work is outstandingly good, and the quality is higher than an Asian outsource so you get fewer defects and rejections.
- doncha all love that healthy mix of condescending nonsense and racism in the morning?
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It's the capital investment that makes workers productive, not their nationality, 'race' or phenotype and China has capital investments unlike USA, which has only fake money due to inflation and thus no savings.
The early governments, were already looked upon with contempt...We can now see why, by looking at what can happen when they are given too much power....
Slashdot Mirror
Facts are a bitch, aren't they?
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."
Yes, he was against the strikes by public unions, however without the ability to strike, the union has little teeth and no purpose but to pay dues and create a monopoly in labour.
The teachers union that was striking was clearly "preventing and obstructing the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied".
So would FDR be for a public union in this case or not? I think the answer is obvious: "unthinkable and intolerable".
(same guy, first account)
You won't get an argument from me about war spending. I am against all offensive military spending. I think USA military spending can easily be cut by about 90% and the remaining amount would still be plenty enough to destroy the world on a whim. Same with other 'wars' like the drug war.
But you won't any support from me for any other government spending that is outside of the Constitution, and public funding for education is not in the Constitution.
Neither is bailing out banks with the Fed, FDIC and then with fake money (1971 gold shock) and then with fake interest rates, fake insurance programs such as FHA and F&F, TARP, stimulus and the rest of it.
Neither is SS or ACA or Medicare or EI or any form of individual or corporate subsidy, like minimum wage. Of-course there are unfortunate things in the Constitution, like the copyright and patent clause, there are the parts of it that were modified later, that allowed for such abomination as the corporate income tax (and progressive at that, which means it breaks the formal law and promotes tyranny of the mob), which is enforced as if it is a personal income tax, which it is not.
Pretty much everything that government is engaged in today is illegal and highly immoral as well.
Of-course that's the real reason that the Occupiers went out there, but they are far from understanding the problem, that's why they can't deal with it.
DHS Drones detain a drone protester.
The DHS drones see anybody from the Middle East as a terrorist of course ignoring the obvious irony that the USA is behaving like a terrorist with its drones flying over and bombing other nations.
both kinds.
bartender left the 1 y.o. to the priest, but picked up the newborn before rabbi got his brit kit out.
Apparently 1-year is a bit too old for that bartender, he chose the newly born instead.
but only one was good enough for the bartender to pick up.
After the security guards insisted that he must delete pictures from his film camera, they also forced him to Skype home on a rotary dial phone and beat him until he admitted in breaking and entering their bank accounts with his calculator.
Security guards, the paragons of intelligence and wisdom. They are also almost a full head above the local cops in understanding of the individual rights.
But doesn't your comment make my point? My comments are consistent, you remember that they are consistent, you know where I stand on things to a higher degree than you know of many other participants in /. discussions.
Since I am consistent in my views, it's not too difficult to see how all comments fit together, isn't it?
It's not an issue of how the code looks in terms of tabs, indents, this stuff a couple of clicks away in an IDE, the issue is in consistency of naming conventions, consistency of approach to the coding decisions. Functions, methods that are easy to read are not those with best indentation, but those with clear logical path visible in them due to choices of how algorithms are split, how variables are named, whether statics and globals are used, how constants are used, what is the logic behind splitting code into sections, packages, files.
If you are consistent about those things then you really make life easier for anybody maintaining the code.
Learn one word: consistency.
Be consistent from one piece of code to the next, from one project to the next. Be consistent about your design ideas, be consistent in your thinking. It's going to help you and anybody else working on the same stuff.
Everything else is sugar.
China needs West like a dog needs flees.
China has the productivity, has the manufacturing sector, has the knowledge at this point, it has the infrastructure to produce. None of the countries you mentioned have it (unless China brings it to them).
USA cannot bring any of that to any of those other countries. People in USA who ran the factories have moved them to China (and other places, like Mexico for example). So it will be up to those people to move if they have to again, but they don't have to.
The problem that the Chinese people have is like all other people, it's their government.
Here is straight from the story:
State-owned Baotou Steel Rare Earth (Group) Hi-tech Co. said in a statement released through the Shanghai Stock Exchange that it suspended production Tuesday to promote "healthy development" of rare earths prices. It gave no indication when production would resume and phone calls to the company on Thursday were not answered.
What they are talking about is creating artificial scarcity by reducing productive output. This is about the dumbest thing anybody with half a brain and a factory can do. They are the biggest refiner and they are reducing capacity that they have in order to push prices up? Well, it doesn't help anybody, it doesn't help them!
By the way, just look at this behaviour. A government is engaging in something that other governments purport that private businesses do, yet private businesses do not do this, because unlike governments, private businesses know that their hold on a market is always temporary and in order to maintain it they HAVE to satisfy their customers.
--
In any case, China is not going to keep this for too long, the production will restart shortly, but this is just another demonstration of the simple truth: government IS the evil, while gov't likes to push propaganda that private interests are evil. In this case gov't is evil by being stupid. Chinese gov't is stupid. It's stupid to peg the currency to US dollar at this point, Chinese would be served much more by allowing their own people to be able to purchase the products that they are creating and it would be possible for the Chinese to buy all of their productive output if the gov't wasn't pegging renminbi to USD, wasn't buying US debt.
Of-course once the Chinese stop, USA and others will suffer a terrible shock, because they won't be able to afford Chinese made goods anymore but in the long run it's good for the USA to go through a shock like that to start moving in the right direction again - re-industrialising, rebuilding the productive capacity that was lost. But this will only happen once USA hits the rock bottom with the dollar plunging into the abyss.
There won't be productive capacity anywhere else in the world for a while, certainly if China stopped pegging their currency to the US dollar tomorrow, there wouldn't be productive capacity in the rest of the world for at least a decade to replace what China is manufacturing today.
But as I said earlier, at least the West will have a few things to export to China except for energy, food and raw materials.... women.
Of-course this is nothing else but government Mafia, which works with the industry and protects that industry and expects serious kickbacks, there is no other way to understand this but corruption.
All government involvement into business activity is corruption, there are no exceptions. Protectionism, special considerations for some businesses and not for others, special taxes for some businesses and not for others, special licensing deals, special relations with the Federal reserve, Treasury, special relationships with the departments, regulators, FBI, Congress, Senate, SCOTUS, POTUS, all of it.
All government intervention in business activity is corruption.
yo, dog, I heard you like bankruptcy, so I put bankruptcy into your bankruptcy so now you can go bankrupt while you are going bankrupt!
--
on a more serious note, given Obama's plan (due to start in 2014) to limit repayment obligations to just 10% of 'discretionary income' (defined as total income above 150% of the federal poverty level, which is 16K for a single person or 33K for a family of 4) and given his plan to limit the term obligations to 20 years (used to be 25 years), having huge student loans at that point becomes a non-issue.
If a college grad makes 80K per year, over the 20 year span, he'd have to pay 4,500 per year back or 90K over the 20 year term.
If a college grad makes 50K per year, he'd have to shell out 1,500 per year for the grand total of 30K over 20 years!
All of this means that people should get into as much student debt as possible. Take 90K. Take 290K. Take a million. Take 10 million. It doesn't matter! Your payments are very dependent on your level of income and you will NEVER have to repay those loans in full anyway, you'll be liable for a TINY portion of it, so make it as big as possible.
When this goes through in 2014, colleges should start advertising new and exciting possibilities: GET A HOUSE AND A CAR AND BUY A DIVIDEND PAYING BUSINESS WITH YOUR STUDENT LOAN!
Why not?
Imagine how high the student debts will be, imagine how much the tuition costs will rise! It's a Brave New World (order).
No, but I would on yours?
Given how lucky some people are, the chances are they will be doing work and their boss will see the game.
Drug was is the extension of the war on individual freedoms. Nobody should be thrown into prison for either creating or selling or possessing or using drugs. Prisons are for criminals, not for consenting individuals who are not hurting anybody.
Drug was has HUGE effect on you. You are just fed enough propaganda not to see it. The effects include (in no particular order):
* further reduction of individual liberties, giving the gov't more tools and resources to limit your freedoms in other situations, not just related to the drug war.
* growing government system, which is what destroys the economy. The bigger the government, the more people are on a dole. The gov't workers are not productive members of society, they don't produce anything that anybody would voluntarily pay for, but they do want to buy all those products and services and thus their overall effect on the existing wealth (products, services) is negative. The gov't employees only add to the trade deficit, they can't reduce it.
* large prison population affects you, you have to support it (taxes, borrowing, inflation), you have to deal with the consequences of many prisoners eventually re-entering the world, which is problematic. Don't you remember Shawshank Redemption: "The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."? People are not made 'better' by any degree in prisons and since they are taken out of normal life, they lose jobs, resources and other ties to the rest of the society, they come out much poorer than they go in. It's a bad system where you force people into more poverty by dragging them through the prison system.
* corruption of all kinds, from abusing the prisoners, using them as slave labour, thus putting normal private competitive companies out of business, to giving pharma (and other) companies a reason to hire and bring more lobbyists to gov't, to give out bribes. Who are the main suspects when it comes to supporting and promoting the drug war?
* racial discrimination, leading to more hate. Drug war disproportionately hits minorities, who are disproportionately thrown to prisons, dragged through the system. This doesn't help anybody but the politicians, who gain talking points.
* more violence, since anything that is illegal still has its market, but because it's illegal, it is more lucrative. It is also a fairly simple business model, but it is dangerous because of the gov't. So there is fierce competition between gangs, all of them want a piece of that pie.
* support of various foreign drug lords, who gain immensely from the drug war. This means more violence and destruction. Maybe you think it doesn't affect you in another country, but a more violent world is a less economically stable world.
* reduction of legal economic activity. Since narcotics are illegal, there is no way to create and grow businesses, that would otherwise exist, hiring people, creating more economic activity (more tax revenue obviously).
* increased population of drug addicts! Yeah, there are more drug addicts when drugs are illegal than when they are legal. Portugal proved it. And really, why would you want more drug addicts than fewer of them? But that's what the Drug war is creating!
* more dangerous synthetic drugs. Since it's illegal to buy 'normal' narcotics, people invent all sorts of ways to get high with materials that are not banned. These drugs are actually more dangerous and have more adverse effects than many naturally occurring substances.
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I am sure there are more reasons, but basically my main point is that everybody is affected by drug war, be it prisons, be it more drug addicts, be it violence, be it reduced economic activity, be it more corruption, be it generally larger and more authoritarian government structure.
and floats.
Hospital doesn't want to invest money into upgrading pacs software.
- because it's not an investment if it doesn't have a return, it's a cost.
Hospital does not want to occur the unnecessary cost, that's the actual reason.
Brought 2 U by letter B.
you want to be 'clearing house', so you want to be the main provider, if in fact you are that provider right now, then you can put a time delay on all new data that you gather, so that whoever mirrors it from you will get the data say 10 days after you collected it.
Oh, and API.
The servers and all that infrastructure looks very large and expensive, so of-course they have to figure out how to squeeze the most out of it in the most efficient manner. Google stock took a 13% dive over the last 2 days of the week, so it's a good time to come out with an article showing all that infrastructure.
America's output per hour work is outstandingly good, and the quality is higher than an Asian outsource so you get fewer defects and rejections.
- doncha all love that healthy mix of condescending nonsense and racism in the morning?
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It's the capital investment that makes workers productive, not their nationality, 'race' or phenotype and China has capital investments unlike USA, which has only fake money due to inflation and thus no savings.
The early governments, were already looked upon with contempt...We can now see why, by looking at what can happen when they are given too much power....
- FTFY.
My main prediction was about inflation, did they talk about it? (I didn't watch).