That's the core problem that even Henry Ford understood and tackled: He paid his workers INSANELY high wages. With the idea that a worker that earns a lot of money can buy one of his cars, thus increasing his profit in the end. And, lo and behold, it worked. Despite everyone calling him a "traitor to his class", he prospered with it. The Model T is IIRC still the second most produced and sold car, and it took a world war and a German "economy miracle" to kick it off its top spot.
The problem is now that the rich don't even want to reward those poors that "play nice" with their plans. Ford did exactly that. His philosophy was that he paid a lot, so he would demand a lot (and he did), but he also had very low turnover and a very well skilled workforce because of this. Today this isn't the case anymore. There is no reward for loyalty or effort.
This can only continue as long as we manage to play poor against poor. Should someone identify the problem and manage to rally the malcontents behind himself, the game is over.
At this point, basically you're their hostage. And until the critical mass of non-Windows programs that can replace their Windows counterparts, which would allow you to leave Windows for a superior OS, has not been reached, you will remain in that position.
So heart attacks and traffic accidents are first world problems? Guess you should be happy in your third world hellhole then and we can turn off the development aid?
We have seen what happens when you disenfranchise the local population and strip them of the bare minimum needs for survival. 1789 and 1917 give a pretty good example. That's why we outsourced that to areas where people can't simply pick up pitchforks and kill us, 'cause swimming through oceans with pitchforks is a bit unwieldy.
If you now again create a powerless group of people without any rights and means of existence right at your door, they don't need to swim. And they have a second amendment that ensures they're armed.
I would not go ahead full bore neo-capitalist into another industrial revolution where you don't try to squeeze your workers dry but simply shove them to the side. Working your workers 'til they're dead is one thing, but shoving them aside means that they are still strong enough at the end of the day to hold a gun against your head.
He served 2 times while alive, but being dead is a completely different matter. I don't know about your laws, but in ours a lot changes for you when you die.
No idea. If I did, I would probably have been able to make a lot of money selling that secret to Saddam Hussein when they asked him about weapons of mass destruction.
I have no beef with Iran. Yes, they're by no means the epitome of freedom, but they also have no reason to prosecute me. Hell, China would work, too. And I guess we all know their track record when it comes to alien concepts like personal freedom.
What matters is that you find a government that isn't interested in cooperating with a government that's out to get you. Like, say, Russia when you're Snowden.
That can be remedied by either only allowing administrative access through very specific channels that cannot be compromised easily or by requiring additional or very specific ways of logging into administrative accounts (e.g. with RSA tokens) that may be considered secure enough to not require such rules.
Yes, there is always a security risk remaining, either way. Welcome to the wonderful world of risk management. It's well paid, but you get a lot of sleepless nights in return.:)
Well, in actuality, it's not turned into a "what you have" factor but into the worst combination of the "what you know" and "what you have" worlds.
A factor that you have to possess has to have a few properties to be considered secure. One of them is to be hard, preferably impossible, to copy. And that is a property this "what you have" token does not have. It's trivial to copy.
Why? Why should we kill them when they ONCE IN A BLUE MOON do something sensible?
There are reasons to hate MS, but this time they actually did the right thing. They fucked up, they fixed it. That's basically what I'd expect, and they delivered.
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If that's what you're after get a job with flexible hours and start at 6am, then you can go home before 4pm.
Easier than forcing everyone to get up while they're still asleep and waste the first hour at work pouring coffee into their body to jumpstart it.
That's the core problem that even Henry Ford understood and tackled: He paid his workers INSANELY high wages. With the idea that a worker that earns a lot of money can buy one of his cars, thus increasing his profit in the end. And, lo and behold, it worked. Despite everyone calling him a "traitor to his class", he prospered with it. The Model T is IIRC still the second most produced and sold car, and it took a world war and a German "economy miracle" to kick it off its top spot.
The problem is now that the rich don't even want to reward those poors that "play nice" with their plans. Ford did exactly that. His philosophy was that he paid a lot, so he would demand a lot (and he did), but he also had very low turnover and a very well skilled workforce because of this. Today this isn't the case anymore. There is no reward for loyalty or effort.
This can only continue as long as we manage to play poor against poor. Should someone identify the problem and manage to rally the malcontents behind himself, the game is over.
Who'd pay for that? The people who have no clean water?
Robots are not here to "make life better". Their job is to produce cheaper and increase profits.
You ARE aware that this would essentially enable those that are pissed at YOU to come to YOUR door?
It's one thing to think capitalist. But what you're doing here is essentially putting the saw to the branch you're sitting on to sell it as firewood.
I'm more talking about Africa where kids dig hazardous raw materials out of the soil for pennies.
At this point, basically you're their hostage. And until the critical mass of non-Windows programs that can replace their Windows counterparts, which would allow you to leave Windows for a superior OS, has not been reached, you will remain in that position.
Reminds me of the stupidity machine in Zak McKracken.
DST is useful if you give a fuck about the sun. Guess what. I don't.
Next argument?
Then who the fuck is the proponent of this bullshit? If it serves exactly nobody, why the hell do we keep it?
So heart attacks and traffic accidents are first world problems? Guess you should be happy in your third world hellhole then and we can turn off the development aid?
We have seen what happens when you disenfranchise the local population and strip them of the bare minimum needs for survival. 1789 and 1917 give a pretty good example. That's why we outsourced that to areas where people can't simply pick up pitchforks and kill us, 'cause swimming through oceans with pitchforks is a bit unwieldy.
If you now again create a powerless group of people without any rights and means of existence right at your door, they don't need to swim. And they have a second amendment that ensures they're armed.
I would not go ahead full bore neo-capitalist into another industrial revolution where you don't try to squeeze your workers dry but simply shove them to the side. Working your workers 'til they're dead is one thing, but shoving them aside means that they are still strong enough at the end of the day to hold a gun against your head.
You have NO idea just how much 172 bucks buy in some parts of this planet...
What happened is that we demanded he turned over something he doesn't have. Which is essentially the same case as described by the GP.
So hand over the prime minister that you hold hostage and we won't shoot you.
He served 2 times while alive, but being dead is a completely different matter. I don't know about your laws, but in ours a lot changes for you when you die.
Enlighten me. So far, asking 10 different people yields 11 definitions of "left" and "right", why not add a 12th?
No idea. If I did, I would probably have been able to make a lot of money selling that secret to Saddam Hussein when they asked him about weapons of mass destruction.
I have no beef with Iran. Yes, they're by no means the epitome of freedom, but they also have no reason to prosecute me. Hell, China would work, too. And I guess we all know their track record when it comes to alien concepts like personal freedom.
What matters is that you find a government that isn't interested in cooperating with a government that's out to get you. Like, say, Russia when you're Snowden.
Could we dig him out? Even as a corpse he's a better president.
Leftists like, say, Pinochet, Marcos or Franco?
They're the ones that can type legibly.
Preferably in a secure location, in a country where it's unlikely that some bully government can get their way.
I suggest Iran.
That can be remedied by either only allowing administrative access through very specific channels that cannot be compromised easily or by requiring additional or very specific ways of logging into administrative accounts (e.g. with RSA tokens) that may be considered secure enough to not require such rules.
Yes, there is always a security risk remaining, either way. Welcome to the wonderful world of risk management. It's well paid, but you get a lot of sleepless nights in return. :)
Well, in actuality, it's not turned into a "what you have" factor but into the worst combination of the "what you know" and "what you have" worlds.
A factor that you have to possess has to have a few properties to be considered secure. One of them is to be hard, preferably impossible, to copy. And that is a property this "what you have" token does not have. It's trivial to copy.
Why? Why should we kill them when they ONCE IN A BLUE MOON do something sensible?
There are reasons to hate MS, but this time they actually did the right thing. They fucked up, they fixed it. That's basically what I'd expect, and they delivered.
We're talking about a corporation here. Self-respect is a concept that's for real people, not for fake ones.
A corporation would shit on itself, put a cherry on top and call it chocolate cake if someone paid it for doing so.