People *do* infact tend to store $38.99 as "thirty-something" and perceive it as cheaper than it really is, relative to say $40.25, or atleast they used to. It's possible, I'd say likely even, that people are adapting to the marketing-crap by installing mental filters that force such prices up. Storing it as "about fourty" or "almost fourty" or some such.
Over here, there's metric prices for everything, so its trivial doing comparison-shopping. The price-label will actually say: $3.25 (400g, $8.13 pro kg) It's a reasonably new thing, wasn't like this 10 years ago. I find it very valuable, it really ain't that easy to say, otherwise, what is cheaper from 3*270g for $4.70 and 1.5kg for $8.
They sound somewhat silly, but I don't know anyone that actually says "Gibibyte", around where I work it's more like; "Does anyone know if the M70 can handle 8Gib-sticks ?"
People actually pronounce it "Gib", I don't see a problem with it. Some still say "Gigabyte", but "Gib" seems to be winning out, probably on account of being shorter and simpler to say rather than on being technically more correct.
I hear only Mib and Gibs though, I can't remember ever hearing anyone saying "KiB".
Probably because for certain storage, such as memory, you need to make them binary sizes for practical reason.
For example, a 1MiB memory-module can be completely adressed by exactly by precisely 20 adress-lines, for which any combination represents a valid address.
But the "MiB" was only invented in 1998 (and became well-known significantly later than that), so how are you supposed to specify the capacity of the memory-modules you sell in a consumer-friendly way ?
Are you going to claim computer X comes with 1048576 bytes of storage ? That numbers seems very arbitrary for a non-tech person. It gets worse if your computer has 16Mib --- it's easy for consumers to compare "16" to "8" and conclude that the former is double, it's significantly less inituitive to deal with 8388608 versus 16777216 bytes. And you'd get lots of silly questions.
So, in short, we needed a name for 2**10, 2**20 and so on and had none, so somebody went with "KB" and "MB" etc, probably because they where "close" to correct.
I dunno, perhaps it'd have been better if they'd been sold as 16*2^20 modules. The problem is, offcourse, that people are unable to deal with scientific notation, many would think that 64*2^20 is more than 1*2^30 or atleast have serious problems comparing them.
Today, offcourse, the MiB exists and there's basically no excuse for not using it.
This exact thougth crossed my mind more than once too.
I mean, seriously, insult and annoy the people who are doing exactly what the MPAA *wants* them to do. Way to go !
Offcourse, if I downloaded the movie instead, I wouldn't be forced to sit trough insulting crap like this.
Comercials with a *positive* attitude would be apropriate, and possibly effective: "We're glad you're here, we hope you will have a wonderful experience", "Thank you for doing the rigth thing", that sort of message, making people feel *good* about having made the rigth choice.
This crap gave atleast me the oposite idea: My god are these people idiots, I wonder if coming here today was such a great idea afterall, seeing as my ticket is what pays for this crap.
Somehow I don't think that's their intended effect....
True. But even in the production of tangible goods, there's less and less physical labour, and more and more administration, planning, direction, programming, etc.
True enough, the person manning the CAD-station producing the templates for the alu-press-machine making car-parts is involved in the production of physical goods (in this case cars), but nevertheless his input/output consist of intangible nonphysical goods.
Whatever. I even included as a possiblity having to throw away the PC. This is unlikely, but even if it should occur, for most people it don't measure up there with death on the discomfort-scale.
I agree however, that the personal info on the PC may very well be more valuable than the machine itself, so for non-backuped people, loss of data is likely worse than loss of machine.
This gets more true by the minute too, as machines keep falling in price and people keep filling them with larger parts of their personal lifes.
That is nonsense, even if you mean "linux distribution" rather than "linux".
There are several things that are similar, but most of them didn't originate in Windows.
There are also tons of features in the Linux kernel and/or linux-distributions that aren't included with Windows at all, or wheren't at the point where they appeared in Linux (or in linux-distros) so they very obviously can't be copied from there.
When Linux got SMP, Windows didn't support it at all.
When Linux got 64-bit, Windows didn't support it at all, still doesn't, really.
When various window-managers started offering multiple desktops, Windows didn't. (does it today ?)
When Linux got multi-user-security (i.e. at day one, inherited from unix) windows had no concept of a "user"
When in KDE you can use ioslaves for audiocd: cameras: scanners: fish: and many more, windows couldn't, and still can't I believe. (or can you mount fish-shares (aka ssh-accounts) in windows these days ?) Notice how them being unix-inventions ain't a valid excuse: it's not as if Linux can't mount windows-shares....
When in recent desktops all icons are scalable vector-drawings with freely selectable size, that isn't even possible in any version of Windows available at the time. (is it possible in vista ? Possibly, but that came later anyway)
Why do US politicians insist on contorted interpretations to make stuff fit the existing constitution, rather than just doing the honest thing and *changing* the damn constitution when they consider that justified ?
Nobody has. And indeed, this is THE most underused argument against software-patents:
Patents are intended to promote progress by rewarding publishing of a method with a time-limited monopoly on using the method.
But, infact, literally *NOBODY* uses published patents as a source of learning new methods.
To the contrary -- if you learn there's a patent on a certain way of solving a problem, you do your best to stay the hell away from that method, and you actively try to *avoid* reading software-patents, since knowing them could make you liable for willfull infringement.
First, color-indexed png are smaller than same gif in most cases, so your claim ain't really true -- even if you ignore the other advantages of png.
Secondly, even if it *was* true, gif certianly ain't *enough* better to be worth dealing with patent-licensing-crap. Lzw is expired anyway now, so the point is moot, but I don't think I know *any* company that would rather have say 10KB navigational graphics, and deal with patent-licensing than go with the 12KB-graphics that are completely unrestricted.
Lots of people where, and are, using gifs. That is overwhelmingly people who have not and will not pay licensing-fees though. The moment anyone approached them with a demand for licensing, they'd be off gifs quicker than you can say cake.
A "22 Khz square wave" doesn't exist. (other than in maths)
In the real world a X-hz square wave is sin(x) + 1/3 sin(3x) + 1/5 sin(5x) + 1/7 sin(7x)....
The part of the 22Khz square wave that is under 22Khz is perfectly represented (modulus sample-depth), the part that has higher frequencies, 66khz upwards in this example, are not correctly reproducible.
If you can't hear frequencies over 22Khz, there's no audible difference between a 22khz sine and a 22khz square wave.
The worst-case scenario are however very significantly different.
Worst-case for a virus-infected windows-machine ? Complete reinstallation. A day lost, hell make it "toss away $1000 machine".
Worst-case for std ? Death.
Not really comparable.
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Your entire life as such, is worthless if for no other reason than that it'd take literally a lifetime to watch it.
There's some bits of it though, that would be nice to keep. And here's the thing, you don't know beforehand which bits that is. Sometimes you discover it later, on occasion *MUCH* later.
That girl sitting next to you on the bus today ? It don't matter, unless she ends up eventually becoming your wife, in which case you migth very well find it amusing to have a recorded video of your very first meeting. (or not, but -some- people would, which is the entire point)
The only way of being able to get at the interesting bits though, is recording a lot of stuff, on the hunch that *some* of it will be interesting and/or useful. For the same reason, basically, that many people keep *all* receipts for expensive stuff they buy -- because inevitably -some- of the stuff will break down, and then you may need the receipt in order to get a guarantee-repair or a refund.
USA has about 1 homicide for every 17500 people a year, so assuming this is a constant (it ain't but I'm just doing OOM here) and people live for aproximately 75 years (they live longer, but population was lower earlier...), this should mean about one murderer pro 250 people -- but some of these are the same person -- multiple killings ain't that uncommon even disregarding serial killers.
So, I get in the USA, on the average, about 1 in 500 people is a murderer. There's significant local variation though, much MUCH higher in some ghettos, and probably an order of magnitude lower in some stable regions. There's probably ~10.000 people cities in the US without murderers.
Elsewhere it's an order of magnitude higher, since murder-rates are lower in most of the civilized world than in the USA, for example in Norway where I live its one homicide pro 120000 people, about 1:7th of the US rate. There's probably 50000 people cities in Norway with no murderers.
Uhm. Ok. Do I know you ? You'll have to forgive me if this should be obvious, but your username doesn't really riung a bell with me.
No matter I authorised you anyway, I'm the trusting type, or something.
Not very hard -- if someone has broken into the computer running your jabber-account, it follows that they can do anything with your account that you yourself can do.
I agree that this can make large jabber-servers such as @jabber.org a tempting target. (though I'm sure the central AIM/ICQ/MSN server experience even MORE attacks, and you're pretty screwed if an attacker gets control there too...)
But here's the thing: because jabber is *NOT* centralized, there's nothing forcing you to using these central servers. Every sensible business that wants to use IM, and every enthusiast individual should run their own anyway. (and this is completely interoperable, if you use foo@jabber.org and I use bar@mydomain.no we still have exactly the same connectivity as if we where using one and the same server.
This is neither hard nor expensive. A growing number of web-hotels include the possibility of running your own jabber-server already, it is easy finding a $10/month hosting-plan that includes your own jabber-server.
Jabber-servers cannot play funny tricks on your messages if the servers are controlled by *YOU*. That's my point. With MSN you do not have any choice other than to trust Microsoft. Similar for the other proprietary ones. With Jabber, it's all open, all distributed, you yourself choose whom to trust. (and if you decide you trust nobody, are free to roll your own)
End-to-end encryption of messages is useful, and I wish it was standard in Jabber to, (in ALL network-programs really - unencrypted protocols need to die!) (as it is, you can have it, but it requires you to configure it first, which I'm sure 1% of the jabber-users actually do) but this is really true regardless of which protocol you use.
How about completely wiping (near as makes no difference anyway) not one, but 70 linux-machines with a single silly command ?
BTDT. Went like this:
Back in the 90ies, automatic packet-handling wasn't as nice as it is today, especially not if you're administering a large number of boxes, any of which may be turned off at any particular time.
So, me and a pal came up with this idea: A script, run out of cron (hourly) on the boxes that would automatically install/upgrade any and all rpms to the version found in a spesific NFS-shared folder. This makes upgrading all boxes as simple as dropping the new rpm into that folder and waiting an hour.
Without my knowledge, the pal extended the script: it'd now also *remove* any rpm-package that disappeared from the NFS-foler. (I'm sure by now you see where this is leading...)
So, wanting to save disk-space on the NFS-server, I went in and deleted tons of "old" rpms that I knew for a fact was long installed everywhere, which would've been fine -- except the extension made by my pal lead to.....
You guessed it. At the next round hour, spontaneously, every single one of the 70 linux-machines in 3 student-labs got the brigth idea of, essentially, deinstalling themselves. Hilarity ensued. Curses flew. It ended up a -LONG- day at work fixing everything again...
So there you go, one simple command, 70 bricked computers.
In an ideal world, this would teach people something about the disadvantages of relying on a centralized server controlled by a corporation over which you have no influence for your communication-infrastructure.
Msn, and Aim have similar problems.
Meanwhile, Jabber is the way of the future. Open protocol. Multiple interoperable implementations. Gateways to these "legacy"-protocols anyway, so you can still talk to your icq/msn-using friends. Multiple simultaneous logins. Server-side storage of buddy-lists (so log on from a different location/new computer and everything is there)
Oh, and for added bonus, jabber-ids on the format of email-adresses are a lot easier to remember than ICQ-uins.
Also is not precisely the same as the intended delete from tblcustomer where customerid = 1783.
Figured that out the hard way.
Still not quite as funny as the co-worker of mine that managed to justify/etc/passwd (as in line-wrapping it at 80 cols).
Don't even ask what he was doing in there with a text-editor in the first place...
The overwhelming cost when putting down any kind of cable is work and/or rigth-of-way. The physical cable itself is negligible in contrast. I know because we just rewired our neighbourhood (~300 houses) to all get fibre. The physical fibre (including the electronic-bits at the ends) was less than 10% of the budget. So even if we could've halved that part of the project (which I doubt) that'd still be a 5% saving overall which is down in the noise.
Fibre weighs significantly less and is significantly less bulky, it also has no cross-talk-problems, which means that in some cases you can pull out the 50 copper-signal-cables in a FULL conduit and replace them with 100 fibres, which saves the digging and installation of a second/larger conduit that would be nessecary if growth where to continue on copper. In such cases installing fibre is much CHEAPER than installing more copper.
I know Eldred vs Ashcroft, and admit to having liberally borrowed the argument from there (though it doesn't include a quantification of just how close to "forever" 100 years really is in economic terms.
The case was weak on one point, I think; it was argued that the long time is essentially equivalent to forever, and that this makes current law conflict with the constitutions demand for "limited times".
What *wasn't* very successfully argued -- though claimed -- was that there is currently a pattern of copyrigth being extended at atleast the same speed as the passage of time. Even if 99% of forever is accepted as not in conflict with the constitution, I'd argue that extending copyrigth by 5 years every 5 years is, in practice, --completely-- equivalent to forever -- unless the court is prepared to tackle the hard issue and put a limit on it.
I am happy that this argument was aired in Eldred vs Ashcroft though. Despite being rejected by the majority (which said, I think, that there is 'no clear pattern' to this effect) I'm guessing, the same argument raised again after the next (inevitable) copyrigth-extension, will have more of a chance. How often are you going to let congress get away with doing the same thing over-and-over-and-over and still claim there is "no pattern" to it ? I sure as hell don't know. (I'd have thunk that 17 times --is-- a pattern, but apparently the supreme court disagrees)
But it should be clear that every time you argue it, it gets harder. If you argue it's no pattern, then 5 years later -- when it's been extended once more -- it's harder to claim it's still no pattern.... one would hope... though I'm not terribly optimistic about US law. I think it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Sadly. You guys *USED* to have very sane law. Certainly much more so than what was common in Europe. These days that's getting less true by the second.
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Over here, there's metric prices for everything, so its trivial doing comparison-shopping. The price-label will actually say: $3.25 (400g, $8.13 pro kg) It's a reasonably new thing, wasn't like this 10 years ago. I find it very valuable, it really ain't that easy to say, otherwise, what is cheaper from 3*270g for $4.70 and 1.5kg for $8.
People actually pronounce it "Gib", I don't see a problem with it. Some still say "Gigabyte", but "Gib" seems to be winning out, probably on account of being shorter and simpler to say rather than on being technically more correct.
I hear only Mib and Gibs though, I can't remember ever hearing anyone saying "KiB".
For example, a 1MiB memory-module can be completely adressed by exactly by precisely 20 adress-lines, for which any combination represents a valid address.
But the "MiB" was only invented in 1998 (and became well-known significantly later than that), so how are you supposed to specify the capacity of the memory-modules you sell in a consumer-friendly way ?
Are you going to claim computer X comes with 1048576 bytes of storage ? That numbers seems very arbitrary for a non-tech person. It gets worse if your computer has 16Mib --- it's easy for consumers to compare "16" to "8" and conclude that the former is double, it's significantly less inituitive to deal with 8388608 versus 16777216 bytes. And you'd get lots of silly questions.
So, in short, we needed a name for 2**10, 2**20 and so on and had none, so somebody went with "KB" and "MB" etc, probably because they where "close" to correct.
I dunno, perhaps it'd have been better if they'd been sold as 16*2^20 modules. The problem is, offcourse, that people are unable to deal with scientific notation, many would think that 64*2^20 is more than 1*2^30 or atleast have serious problems comparing them.
Today, offcourse, the MiB exists and there's basically no excuse for not using it.
I mean, seriously, insult and annoy the people who are doing exactly what the MPAA *wants* them to do. Way to go !
Offcourse, if I downloaded the movie instead, I wouldn't be forced to sit trough insulting crap like this.
Comercials with a *positive* attitude would be apropriate, and possibly effective: "We're glad you're here, we hope you will have a wonderful experience", "Thank you for doing the rigth thing", that sort of message, making people feel *good* about having made the rigth choice.
This crap gave atleast me the oposite idea: My god are these people idiots, I wonder if coming here today was such a great idea afterall, seeing as my ticket is what pays for this crap.
Somehow I don't think that's their intended effect....
True enough, the person manning the CAD-station producing the templates for the alu-press-machine making car-parts is involved in the production of physical goods (in this case cars), but nevertheless his input/output consist of intangible nonphysical goods.
I agree however, that the personal info on the PC may very well be more valuable than the machine itself, so for non-backuped people, loss of data is likely worse than loss of machine.
This gets more true by the minute too, as machines keep falling in price and people keep filling them with larger parts of their personal lifes.
Backups are a wise investment. That's for sure.
There are several things that are similar, but most of them didn't originate in Windows.
There are also tons of features in the Linux kernel and/or linux-distributions that aren't included with Windows at all, or wheren't at the point where they appeared in Linux (or in linux-distros) so they very obviously can't be copied from there.
Why do US politicians insist on contorted interpretations to make stuff fit the existing constitution, rather than just doing the honest thing and *changing* the damn constitution when they consider that justified ?
Patents are intended to promote progress by rewarding publishing of a method with a time-limited monopoly on using the method.
But, infact, literally *NOBODY* uses published patents as a source of learning new methods.
To the contrary -- if you learn there's a patent on a certain way of solving a problem, you do your best to stay the hell away from that method, and you actively try to *avoid* reading software-patents, since knowing them could make you liable for willfull infringement.
Secondly, even if it *was* true, gif certianly ain't *enough* better to be worth dealing with patent-licensing-crap. Lzw is expired anyway now, so the point is moot, but I don't think I know *any* company that would rather have say 10KB navigational graphics, and deal with patent-licensing than go with the 12KB-graphics that are completely unrestricted.
Lots of people where, and are, using gifs. That is overwhelmingly people who have not and will not pay licensing-fees though. The moment anyone approached them with a demand for licensing, they'd be off gifs quicker than you can say cake.
In the real world a X-hz square wave is sin(x) + 1/3 sin(3x) + 1/5 sin(5x) + 1/7 sin(7x) ....
The part of the 22Khz square wave that is under 22Khz is perfectly represented (modulus sample-depth), the part that has higher frequencies, 66khz upwards in this example, are not correctly reproducible.
If you can't hear frequencies over 22Khz, there's no audible difference between a 22khz sine and a 22khz square wave.
Worst-case for a virus-infected windows-machine ? Complete reinstallation. A day lost, hell make it "toss away $1000 machine".
Worst-case for std ? Death.
Not really comparable.
There's some bits of it though, that would be nice to keep. And here's the thing, you don't know beforehand which bits that is. Sometimes you discover it later, on occasion *MUCH* later.
That girl sitting next to you on the bus today ? It don't matter, unless she ends up eventually becoming your wife, in which case you migth very well find it amusing to have a recorded video of your very first meeting. (or not, but -some- people would, which is the entire point)
The only way of being able to get at the interesting bits though, is recording a lot of stuff, on the hunch that *some* of it will be interesting and/or useful. For the same reason, basically, that many people keep *all* receipts for expensive stuff they buy -- because inevitably -some- of the stuff will break down, and then you may need the receipt in order to get a guarantee-repair or a refund.
USA has about 1 homicide for every 17500 people a year, so assuming this is a constant (it ain't but I'm just doing OOM here) and people live for aproximately 75 years (they live longer, but population was lower earlier...), this should mean about one murderer pro 250 people -- but some of these are the same person -- multiple killings ain't that uncommon even disregarding serial killers.
So, I get in the USA, on the average, about 1 in 500 people is a murderer. There's significant local variation though, much MUCH higher in some ghettos, and probably an order of magnitude lower in some stable regions. There's probably ~10.000 people cities in the US without murderers.
Elsewhere it's an order of magnitude higher, since murder-rates are lower in most of the civilized world than in the USA, for example in Norway where I live its one homicide pro 120000 people, about 1:7th of the US rate. There's probably 50000 people cities in Norway with no murderers.
Uhm. Ok. Do I know you ? You'll have to forgive me if this should be obvious, but your username doesn't really riung a bell with me. No matter I authorised you anyway, I'm the trusting type, or something.
I agree that this can make large jabber-servers such as @jabber.org a tempting target. (though I'm sure the central AIM/ICQ/MSN server experience even MORE attacks, and you're pretty screwed if an attacker gets control there too...)
But here's the thing: because jabber is *NOT* centralized, there's nothing forcing you to using these central servers. Every sensible business that wants to use IM, and every enthusiast individual should run their own anyway. (and this is completely interoperable, if you use foo@jabber.org and I use bar@mydomain.no we still have exactly the same connectivity as if we where using one and the same server.
This is neither hard nor expensive. A growing number of web-hotels include the possibility of running your own jabber-server already, it is easy finding a $10/month hosting-plan that includes your own jabber-server.
Jabber-servers cannot play funny tricks on your messages if the servers are controlled by *YOU*. That's my point. With MSN you do not have any choice other than to trust Microsoft. Similar for the other proprietary ones. With Jabber, it's all open, all distributed, you yourself choose whom to trust. (and if you decide you trust nobody, are free to roll your own) End-to-end encryption of messages is useful, and I wish it was standard in Jabber to, (in ALL network-programs really - unencrypted protocols need to die!) (as it is, you can have it, but it requires you to configure it first, which I'm sure 1% of the jabber-users actually do) but this is really true regardless of which protocol you use.
I agree. But just because both are bad, and religion is the greater evil, doesn't make it a bad thing to figth this smaller evil.
It's sorta like, just because there are BIGGER problems in the world than DRM, doesn't make it a bad thing to figth this smaller evil.
How about completely wiping (near as makes no difference anyway) not one, but 70 linux-machines with a single silly command ?
BTDT. Went like this:
You guessed it. At the next round hour, spontaneously, every single one of the 70 linux-machines in 3 student-labs got the brigth idea of, essentially, deinstalling themselves. Hilarity ensued. Curses flew. It ended up a -LONG- day at work fixing everything again...
So there you go, one simple command, 70 bricked computers.
Any better ?
In an ideal world, this would teach people something about the disadvantages of relying on a centralized server controlled by a corporation over which you have no influence for your communication-infrastructure.
Msn, and Aim have similar problems.Meanwhile, Jabber is the way of the future. Open protocol. Multiple interoperable implementations. Gateways to these "legacy"-protocols anyway, so you can still talk to your icq/msn-using friends. Multiple simultaneous logins. Server-side storage of buddy-lists (so log on from a different location/new computer and everything is there)
Oh, and for added bonus, jabber-ids on the format of email-adresses are a lot easier to remember than ICQ-uins.
Also is not precisely the same as the intended delete from tblcustomer where customerid = 1783.
Figured that out the hard way.
Still not quite as funny as the co-worker of mine that managed to justify /etc/passwd (as in line-wrapping it at 80 cols).
Don't even ask what he was doing in there with a text-editor in the first place...
The overwhelming cost when putting down any kind of cable is work and/or rigth-of-way. The physical cable itself is negligible in contrast. I know because we just rewired our neighbourhood (~300 houses) to all get fibre. The physical fibre (including the electronic-bits at the ends) was less than 10% of the budget. So even if we could've halved that part of the project (which I doubt) that'd still be a 5% saving overall which is down in the noise.
Fibre weighs significantly less and is significantly less bulky, it also has no cross-talk-problems, which means that in some cases you can pull out the 50 copper-signal-cables in a FULL conduit and replace them with 100 fibres, which saves the digging and installation of a second/larger conduit that would be nessecary if growth where to continue on copper. In such cases installing fibre is much CHEAPER than installing more copper.
Doctor ? Fireman ? Scientist ? Cook ? Fisherman ?
How should we know ?
The case was weak on one point, I think; it was argued that the long time is essentially equivalent to forever, and that this makes current law conflict with the constitutions demand for "limited times".
What *wasn't* very successfully argued -- though claimed -- was that there is currently a pattern of copyrigth being extended at atleast the same speed as the passage of time. Even if 99% of forever is accepted as not in conflict with the constitution, I'd argue that extending copyrigth by 5 years every 5 years is, in practice, --completely-- equivalent to forever -- unless the court is prepared to tackle the hard issue and put a limit on it.
I am happy that this argument was aired in Eldred vs Ashcroft though. Despite being rejected by the majority (which said, I think, that there is 'no clear pattern' to this effect) I'm guessing, the same argument raised again after the next (inevitable) copyrigth-extension, will have more of a chance. How often are you going to let congress get away with doing the same thing over-and-over-and-over and still claim there is "no pattern" to it ? I sure as hell don't know. (I'd have thunk that 17 times --is-- a pattern, but apparently the supreme court disagrees) But it should be clear that every time you argue it, it gets harder. If you argue it's no pattern, then 5 years later -- when it's been extended once more -- it's harder to claim it's still no pattern.... one would hope... though I'm not terribly optimistic about US law. I think it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Sadly. You guys *USED* to have very sane law. Certainly much more so than what was common in Europe. These days that's getting less true by the second.
Alternatively, if you vote for politicians which vote for laws giving employeers such unlimited powers, it's your own damn fault.