where's the news? the fire didn't get to any of the houses and nobody died. except for the huge amount of smoke there was nothing to see. the enormous fire (bigger than this OC fire) in the angles national forest north of LA is far bigger news.
There are a few areas within CA that are home to the wealth-generators making California one of the world's great economies.
and i have to take issue with your assertion that these people who have so much money (and almost lost a little due to natural disaster) deserve news coverage. I am working in the office (in foot hill ranch) of one of those 'wealth-generators' please do not mistake personal gain for wealth generation -- they are making millions by selling made-in-sweatshop-crap that people don't really need at prices 10 times what they paid for it. the wealth generators are those who made the product and get fucked up the ass every time they get paid (way less than minimum wage for an american and barely living wage in thier own country).
I am not a biologist, can someone please explain where the cell waste would go if there is no blood system taking wastes away? Or maybe there is no waste -- there's no digestion and the cells process the nutrients without waste (beyond CO2). Krebs was a long time ago.
not that it matters to me, i'm vegan and since the research involved slicing hunks of flesh from living animals i'm not interestd in the product.
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the humanitarian problem is that nestle isn't in business for the good of the child, they're in it for the (gasp) profit. ok. so what, all corporations are in business for profit. and nestle sells thier product to all nations, regardless of the size of the market.
so here's _one_ problem: nestle goes to africa where people make maybe a dollar a day and tells mothers (through marketing and doctor recommendations) that nestle formula is better than mothers milk. the mothers believe this and purchase the formula. but these people can't afford the high price and there isn't government sponsored assistance for the purchase of baby formula. so the mothers, believing what they're told, (formula is far better) dilute the baby formula with water thinking it will still be better to feed the child this diluted formula. during this time the mother has stoped producing milk and now the only option is high-priced or diluted formula.
there are solutions to this (free formula for needy mothers, education on how to properly use formlua, reduced agression in marketing) but they all require concessions from someone. and no one likes to concede.
with the execption of tree spikes, lefties prefer using themselves or vegan cream pies as weapons. common methods of implementation include crossing imaginary lines, sitting in trees, and shouting slogans. other vicious tactics (which you can try at home!) include writing letters, creating political art, and speaking to strangers.
there are smallish groups of people who think violence will produce an acceptable result but they are certainly the minority though they get the majority of news coverage. which image will stir a consumer into a buying frenzy? a story about folks sitting in a tree (ooh, trees) or a story about an angry clashe between 200 police and 92 protestors (i need to buy things to sooth my paniced mind). stimulation only.
Which one should succeed, if any? How free would the country be if they succeeded? Would the leaders of these groups let the country vote on a new leader every few years? And what happens after the revolution, anyway?
anarchy says there would be no leaders. they don't want to replace the opressive, exploitive government we have now with another gov. -- they want to remove all large scale leadership. the country would function with, if anything, community level orginazation which grant everyone free association.
i also know that many people who call themselvs anarchists are angry kids who think they are going to take on the police force and win. they're generally not harmful as they spend most of thier time in meetings deciding who is going to facilitate then can't consense on when to meet next. actually, most of us "radicals" have that problem (too much time meeting, not enough action).
Yes, sherman was distributing bomb making information. So did my highschool library. i learned how to make contact explosives, thermite, learned about fuel air explosions (and had some unsuccessful trials) and in class friends told me how to make pipe bombs out of common household items. and if you havn't already noticed, that sort of info is available from thousands of websites and before that bbs.
so this case had better not be about distribution of information (information wants to be free, right?). he already admitted to defacing websites (he should have kept quiet) so they should fine him or give him something comparable to the punishment for graffiti. either way, the way they did it seems more like an intimidation tactic to keep people from doing what he did.
living in a hotel isn't that bad. i lived in an extended stay hotel (with kitchenette -- more than what came with my current residence, a loft) for 3 months when i moved to LA. it was only $40 a month more than getting a month to month lease AND i got free toilet paper and coffee. it was weird though -- coming home to a made bed, the end of the toilet paper folded into a triangle, empty trash cans. and i had to hide my stash in my clothes which made my clothes smell funny.
i have thought about traveling a lot and living out of hotels and working from my laptop. i knew a guy who lived out of his car and programmed for 2 companies. for the occasional shower he snuk into hotel rooms when the cleaning crew did its thing.
did you moderators bother to check if his site (www.davebrenninslaw.org) actually exists (it doesn't). as if the userid (gayrod) wasn't enough. this is a troll. like some sig once said, never trust a user id over 150000.
regardless of what is said on slashdot this will have to be decided in court with a judge and real lawyers.
we're removing all risk to US gov. troops -- is the right to bear arms going to be moot? thomas jefferson (i think) said we must have the right to bear arms as a last resort to resist a tyranical government here. while i don't like many aspects of the US government i'm not ready to take up arms however if we slide further towards a totalatarian government (and further away from democracy) i might support an armed takeover. i really don't know since i've never thought much about it but this seems to be a step in the wrong direction -- we can save our soldiers lives through other means, like negotiations.
People like these are worthy of praise because they're helping make space accessible to the more common folk.
if by 'more common folk' you mean the super rich, i agree. you (and i), however, are never going into space (unless you go like
gene roddenbery).
the research done at NASA and its contractors may produce some results applicable to us but a better return on our investment would be researching (and implementing) technology whose application lies on earth. i'm not saying NASA should be dropped outright but we should re-evaluate our goals in space.
perhaps you've never dealt with verizon or perhaps you don't understand english. either way, michael's statement is mostly true. a company like verizon will already be stressed during a situation like this and will have its workers working on verizon network problems.
no, a non-heirachal group of tech workers in small teams on specific points of problems with wireless communication links between teams is the best way to go -- not a military styled 'top down' approach which would slow the deployment and execution of such a 'rescue' attempt. these groups should be in every city and partially exist in the form of LUG, 2600, et al. the only thing preventing these groups from taking control of the situation is effective communication which could come from HAM operators, one in each group.
There is a legitimate market for Dmitri's software -- people who have purchased ebooks and wish to have the book on more than one computer. Dmitri's product was intended to help those people. the fact that adobe wrote poor software only allowed him to accomplish this.
If Ford actually made locks so poorly that you could create a key that opened all Fords I'm sure you could create and market it as a "Universal Replacement Key" for all Fords. sure, Ford would try to stop you but it would certainly be thier fault that they created a faulty lock.
In fact there is a product designed to unlock nearly all cars - the Slim Jim. If you're cheap, use a bent coat hangar. When I lock my keys in my car (quite often) I can have my Honda CRX door open in less than a minute with a coat hangar. Should coat hangar manufactures and other medium diameter steel rod manufactures be sued because thier product doesn't discriminate between legitimate fools (myself) and criminals and can be used for "evil?"
Had adobe created a system where users could, for a small fee and with some identification (CreditCardNo), purchase the right to move the an ebook from one computer to another perhaps this would not have happened. however, i would have a problem with that system.
At question here is whether or not a person working in the digital world has the same rights as someone in the analog world. I say yes (as would Thomas Jefferson), DCMA says no.
it should be noted that the laptops (which are actually thin clients) will be issued to the students -- the parents will not have to pay anything.
i think this has the potential to be a very good thing. but from my experience i doubt it will succeed. the year i graduated HS an alumni donated a lab of sun workstations and a server with oracle. the lab sat dormant for 3 years before a half credit database class was created which utilized the lab for 3 hours a day.
also, while i was in HS we had 3 computer labs which were administered by one tech (ex-science teacher) who also administered the labs in the middle school and at five elementary schools. he was at each school no more than twice a week so myself and another student took it upon ourselvs to pick up the slack (there were lots of problems). when the tech found out what we were doing he revoked our accounts. school wasn't over so we just made more with the admin password we had given ourselvs. he later found out about that and tried to suspended us and prevent me from graduating (he failed).
so true, the free market is survival of the fittest. Fitness for a corporation means having the ability to survive dry spells (low earnings) through securing lines of credit with a bank. Or undercutting competetors at a loss to drive them out of business at which point you can raise your prices to regain lost profits. these are key strategies for any big business or market leader and have been used by the bells (ny times link) to great effect on competing DSL providers. and when competetors lobbies government to intervene in an unequal marketplace the government declares 'market rule.'
there is currently a de facto monopoly on DSL in many areas and as much as i hate to see more laws i think some sort of regulation (though i'm open to suggestions) may be necessary.
there are probably many options but a cassiopeia with a CF 802.11 card should do -- it has an internal mic and a headphone jack. my only concern would be processor speed (the cassio has a 150MHz 'VR4122' which is probably enough) but that will inevitably increase. in the meantime those of us with laptops and can use the built-in mic and headphones.
there was brief mention of Dmitry (and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW) on the NPR syndicated show Marketplace. it was sort of pathetic though -- they mentioned that he was arrested and that adobe dropped the charges after anti-DCMA hactivists organized protests and got generally pissed. but they failed to mention that he's still in jail.
The problem I see is that so many sysadmins are programmers who can't hack code or worse. Take the 'sysadmin' where i work, he's the best friend of the ceo (no previous experience) and spent hours trying to get code red off 4 servers. it's that sort of incompetence that lets these virii propigate in the first place.
check themls.com. The website is updated every two hours by the main listings database which is updated constantly by realators. If you find a house you like you must contact a realestate agent to purchase the house and to view it (1 or 0 pictures of the house on the site)
I wrote the code on that site which imports the database and the code that queries and displays the results.
Last i checked, it's 2001. After The Jungle was published the industry began reforming and, along with other industries, the workers unionized. The conditions and pay improved and from the 50's to early 70's the job was not so bad -- pay was better than other manufacturing jobs and conditions were acceptable. But in recent years the industry has experienced consolidation and corporatization which has led to higher profit expectations for shareholders and executives while the workers work "more efficiently" (much harder, and for less pay).
The NY Times had an excellent article on the subject a few months ago as part of thier 'Race In America' series but i couldn't find it.
you're right that this is a way to transmit binary data but it's binary data that will let you know if it has been viewed. When i send data over the internet there is no way for me to know that it arrived without being viewed (i can't detect a sniffer on some router). So it would be a bad idea for me to send you a key to decrypt the encrypted file i'm about to send.
here's how quantum crypto is different. First, I transmit a key to you using polarized photons. we agree on a key of 1024 bytes but instead of just sending 1024 bytes i send you more than that -- perhaps 2048 bytes. Now you have 2048 bytes of info. to make sure that no one looked at them you send me 1024 of the bytes, insecurely, randomly selected and with info pertaining to each byte's placement in the 2048 key, for me to confirm. if i see that they are the same as what i sent the key was probably not intercepted. so i encrypt and transmit the message, insecurely, with the 1024 bytes that you did not transmit. And the transaction is complete.
here's what makes quantum crypto secure: If the key you return to me contains bytes other than what i sent you then the photons have been observed by 3rd parties and we try again later. The reason this works is that if a 3rd party tries to observe the photons i sent, the polarity will change and therefore the value of the photon. that's what the heisenberg uncertainty principle will tell you -- that a photon's polarity will change after it has been observed.
I've never seen it in print, but i assume that the 3rd party can not re-broadcast the correct value fast enough to avoid detection.
Most speech recognision systems use some form of a dictionary and grammar rules to help the accuracy of the translation. Could a language like pig latin throw the system off?
There must be many ways around this technology (encrypted voice over ip comes to mind) but the only ones who will take the time to do so are the supposed targets.
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Executives and sports celebrities are making millions off the slave labor in third world countries. These workers (children
and adults) are being denied what is theirs -- a fair part of the profits. I would bet that if these companies who use child
labour were to pay workers a fair wage the children would not have to work -- parents could support their families. The
executives at Nike are simply taking advantage of the fact that third world countries don't protect their citizens the same
way we do -- these countries rarely have minimum wages and are often complacent when corporations break unions.
How can they overcome poverty when the future of the country spends 10-12 hours a day assembling shoes and soccer
balls instead of getting an education, let alone REAL workplace skills? Nike and other sweatshop labour using corporations
are locking down their future wealth by keeping these countries poor by not paying workers fair wages.
A country with no income can't hire teachers. Workers are the source of a countries income but these corporations are
stealing the workers income.
And Dauntless, I would like to know how you can defend the practices of these corporations. Families can't make a living
while Nike makes a killing. The families are barely surviving on their wages and have little hope of a better future while
they are working at Nike.
when Nike starts paying its manufactures a fair wage i might buy their products.
Why do we create disposable products when reusable ones can be manufactured for just as little cash? These products are
not recyclable and will probably release toxic materials as they degrade in a landfill. Why not create an inexpensive phone
which can be recharged and used more than once? Oh yeah, then the manufactures wouldn't have the constant stream of
revenue from users who used up the battery life.
This seems to be a ploy from the cellular providers to get people who can't afford calling plans to begin using
mobile phones and, eventually, they will buy a 'real' cell phone. At that time the mobile providers can lock the users into a
contract with outrageous termination fees. They are borrowing the drug dealer's business model -- give the first hit and
you'll have a cell phone junkie for life.
Where have you been? Global warming has been in the news for years. If you were to regularly read any legitimate news site other than slashdot you would know this has been an issue for some time.
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where's the news? the fire didn't get to any of the houses and nobody died. except for the huge amount of smoke there was nothing to see. the enormous fire (bigger than this OC fire) in the angles national forest north of LA is far bigger news.
There are a few areas within CA that are home to the wealth-generators making California one of the world's great economies.
and i have to take issue with your assertion that these people who have so much money (and almost lost a little due to natural disaster) deserve news coverage. I am working in the office (in foot hill ranch) of one of those 'wealth-generators' please do not mistake personal gain for wealth generation -- they are making millions by selling made-in-sweatshop-crap that people don't really need at prices 10 times what they paid for it. the wealth generators are those who made the product and get fucked up the ass every time they get paid (way less than minimum wage for an american and barely living wage in thier own country).
I am not a biologist, can someone please explain where the cell waste would go if there is no blood system taking wastes away? Or maybe there is no waste -- there's no digestion and the cells process the nutrients without waste (beyond CO2). Krebs was a long time ago.
not that it matters to me, i'm vegan and since the research involved slicing hunks of flesh from living animals i'm not interestd in the product.
the humanitarian problem is that nestle isn't in business for the good of the child, they're in it for the (gasp) profit. ok. so what, all corporations are in business for profit. and nestle sells thier product to all nations, regardless of the size of the market.
so here's _one_ problem: nestle goes to africa where people make maybe a dollar a day and tells mothers (through marketing and doctor recommendations) that nestle formula is better than mothers milk. the mothers believe this and purchase the formula. but these people can't afford the high price and there isn't government sponsored assistance for the purchase of baby formula. so the mothers, believing what they're told, (formula is far better) dilute the baby formula with water thinking it will still be better to feed the child this diluted formula. during this time the mother has stoped producing milk and now the only option is high-priced or diluted formula.
there are solutions to this (free formula for needy mothers, education on how to properly use formlua, reduced agression in marketing) but they all require concessions from someone. and no one likes to concede.
he lives in LA where rent is outrageous. living with your mommy is a good idea when you're 18 and in LA.
with the execption of tree spikes, lefties prefer using themselves or vegan cream pies as weapons. common methods of implementation include crossing imaginary lines, sitting in trees, and shouting slogans. other vicious tactics (which you can try at home!) include writing letters, creating political art, and speaking to strangers.
there are smallish groups of people who think violence will produce an acceptable result but they are certainly the minority though they get the majority of news coverage. which image will stir a consumer into a buying frenzy? a story about folks sitting in a tree (ooh, trees) or a story about an angry clashe between 200 police and 92 protestors (i need to buy things to sooth my paniced mind). stimulation only.
Which one should succeed, if any? How free would the country be if they succeeded? Would the leaders of these groups let the country vote on a new leader every few years? And what happens after the revolution, anyway?
anarchy says there would be no leaders. they don't want to replace the opressive, exploitive government we have now with another gov. -- they want to remove all large scale leadership. the country would function with, if anything, community level orginazation which grant everyone free association.
i also know that many people who call themselvs anarchists are angry kids who think they are going to take on the police force and win. they're generally not harmful as they spend most of thier time in meetings deciding who is going to facilitate then can't consense on when to meet next. actually, most of us "radicals" have that problem (too much time meeting, not enough action).
Yes, sherman was distributing bomb making information. So did my highschool library. i learned how to make contact explosives, thermite, learned about fuel air explosions (and had some unsuccessful trials) and in class friends told me how to make pipe bombs out of common household items. and if you havn't already noticed, that sort of info is available from thousands of websites and before that bbs.
so this case had better not be about distribution of information (information wants to be free, right?). he already admitted to defacing websites (he should have kept quiet) so they should fine him or give him something comparable to the punishment for graffiti. either way, the way they did it seems more like an intimidation tactic to keep people from doing what he did.
living in a hotel isn't that bad. i lived in an extended stay hotel (with kitchenette -- more than what came with my current residence, a loft) for 3 months when i moved to LA. it was only $40 a month more than getting a month to month lease AND i got free toilet paper and coffee. it was weird though -- coming home to a made bed, the end of the toilet paper folded into a triangle, empty trash cans. and i had to hide my stash in my clothes which made my clothes smell funny.
i have thought about traveling a lot and living out of hotels and working from my laptop. i knew a guy who lived out of his car and programmed for 2 companies. for the occasional shower he snuk into hotel rooms when the cleaning crew did its thing.
did you moderators bother to check if his site (www.davebrenninslaw.org) actually exists (it doesn't). as if the userid (gayrod) wasn't enough. this is a troll. like some sig once said, never trust a user id over 150000.
regardless of what is said on slashdot this will have to be decided in court with a judge and real lawyers.
posting anonymously for the sake of karma.
we're removing all risk to US gov. troops -- is the right to bear arms going to be moot? thomas jefferson (i think) said we must have the right to bear arms as a last resort to resist a tyranical government here. while i don't like many aspects of the US government i'm not ready to take up arms however if we slide further towards a totalatarian government (and further away from democracy) i might support an armed takeover. i really don't know since i've never thought much about it but this seems to be a step in the wrong direction -- we can save our soldiers lives through other means, like negotiations.
People like these are worthy of praise because they're helping make space accessible to the more common folk.
if by 'more common folk' you mean the super rich, i agree. you (and i), however, are never going into space (unless you go like gene roddenbery).
the research done at NASA and its contractors may produce some results applicable to us but a better return on our investment would be researching (and implementing) technology whose application lies on earth. i'm not saying NASA should be dropped outright but we should re-evaluate our goals in space.
perhaps you've never dealt with verizon or perhaps you don't understand english. either way, michael's statement is mostly true. a company like verizon will already be stressed during a situation like this and will have its workers working on verizon network problems.
no, a non-heirachal group of tech workers in small teams on specific points of problems with wireless communication links between teams is the best way to go -- not a military styled 'top down' approach which would slow the deployment and execution of such a 'rescue' attempt. these groups should be in every city and partially exist in the form of LUG, 2600, et al. the only thing preventing these groups from taking control of the situation is effective communication which could come from HAM operators, one in each group.
There is a legitimate market for Dmitri's software -- people who have purchased ebooks and wish to have the book on more than one computer. Dmitri's product was intended to help those people. the fact that adobe wrote poor software only allowed him to accomplish this.
If Ford actually made locks so poorly that you could create a key that opened all Fords I'm sure you could create and market it as a "Universal Replacement Key" for all Fords. sure, Ford would try to stop you but it would certainly be thier fault that they created a faulty lock.
In fact there is a product designed to unlock nearly all cars - the Slim Jim. If you're cheap, use a bent coat hangar. When I lock my keys in my car (quite often) I can have my Honda CRX door open in less than a minute with a coat hangar. Should coat hangar manufactures and other medium diameter steel rod manufactures be sued because thier product doesn't discriminate between legitimate fools (myself) and criminals and can be used for "evil?"
Had adobe created a system where users could, for a small fee and with some identification (CreditCardNo), purchase the right to move the an ebook from one computer to another perhaps this would not have happened. however, i would have a problem with that system.
At question here is whether or not a person working in the digital world has the same rights as someone in the analog world. I say yes (as would Thomas Jefferson), DCMA says no.
it should be noted that the laptops (which are actually thin clients) will be issued to the students -- the parents will not have to pay anything.
i think this has the potential to be a very good thing. but from my experience i doubt it will succeed. the year i graduated HS an alumni donated a lab of sun workstations and a server with oracle. the lab sat dormant for 3 years before a half credit database class was created which utilized the lab for 3 hours a day.
also, while i was in HS we had 3 computer labs which were administered by one tech (ex-science teacher) who also administered the labs in the middle school and at five elementary schools. he was at each school no more than twice a week so myself and another student took it upon ourselvs to pick up the slack (there were lots of problems). when the tech found out what we were doing he revoked our accounts. school wasn't over so we just made more with the admin password we had given ourselvs. he later found out about that and tried to suspended us and prevent me from graduating (he failed).
so true, the free market is survival of the fittest. Fitness for a corporation means having the ability to survive dry spells (low earnings) through securing lines of credit with a bank. Or undercutting competetors at a loss to drive them out of business at which point you can raise your prices to regain lost profits. these are key strategies for any big business or market leader and have been used by the bells (ny times link) to great effect on competing DSL providers. and when competetors lobbies government to intervene in an unequal marketplace the government declares 'market rule.'
there is currently a de facto monopoly on DSL in many areas and as much as i hate to see more laws i think some sort of regulation (though i'm open to suggestions) may be necessary.
there are probably many options but a cassiopeia with a CF 802.11 card should do -- it has an internal mic and a headphone jack. my only concern would be processor speed (the cassio has a 150MHz 'VR4122' which is probably enough) but that will inevitably increase. in the meantime those of us with laptops and can use the built-in mic and headphones.
there was brief mention of Dmitry (and the CULT OF THE DEAD COW) on the NPR syndicated show Marketplace. it was sort of pathetic though -- they mentioned that he was arrested and that adobe dropped the charges after anti-DCMA hactivists organized protests and got generally pissed. but they failed to mention that he's still in jail.
The problem I see is that so many sysadmins are programmers who can't hack code or worse. Take the 'sysadmin' where i work, he's the best friend of the ceo (no previous experience) and spent hours trying to get code red off 4 servers. it's that sort of incompetence that lets these virii propigate in the first place.
check themls.com. The website is updated every two hours by the main listings database which is updated constantly by realators. If you find a house you like you must contact a realestate agent to purchase the house and to view it (1 or 0 pictures of the house on the site)
I wrote the code on that site which imports the database and the code that queries and displays the results.
The NY Times had an excellent article on the subject a few months ago as part of thier 'Race In America' series but i couldn't find it.
Here are some other articles on the subject:
- Packinghouse workers returned to the jungle
- The Heartland's Raw Deal
PS: i am vegan.you're right that this is a way to transmit binary data but it's binary data that will let you know if it has been viewed. When i send data over the internet there is no way for me to know that it arrived without being viewed (i can't detect a sniffer on some router). So it would be a bad idea for me to send you a key to decrypt the encrypted file i'm about to send.
here's how quantum crypto is different. First, I transmit a key to you using polarized photons. we agree on a key of 1024 bytes but instead of just sending 1024 bytes i send you more than that -- perhaps 2048 bytes. Now you have 2048 bytes of info. to make sure that no one looked at them you send me 1024 of the bytes, insecurely, randomly selected and with info pertaining to each byte's placement in the 2048 key, for me to confirm. if i see that they are the same as what i sent the key was probably not intercepted. so i encrypt and transmit the message, insecurely, with the 1024 bytes that you did not transmit. And the transaction is complete.
here's what makes quantum crypto secure: If the key you return to me contains bytes other than what i sent you then the photons have been observed by 3rd parties and we try again later. The reason this works is that if a 3rd party tries to observe the photons i sent, the polarity will change and therefore the value of the photon. that's what the heisenberg uncertainty principle will tell you -- that a photon's polarity will change after it has been observed.
I've never seen it in print, but i assume that the 3rd party can not re-broadcast the correct value fast enough to avoid detection.
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Most speech recognision systems use some form of a dictionary and grammar rules to help the accuracy of the translation. Could a language like pig latin throw the system off?
There must be many ways around this technology (encrypted voice over ip comes to mind) but the only ones who will take the time to do so are the supposed targets.
Any takers?
Executives and sports celebrities are making millions off the slave labor in third world countries. These workers (children and adults) are being denied what is theirs -- a fair part of the profits. I would bet that if these companies who use child labour were to pay workers a fair wage the children would not have to work -- parents could support their families. The executives at Nike are simply taking advantage of the fact that third world countries don't protect their citizens the same way we do -- these countries rarely have minimum wages and are often complacent when corporations break unions.
How can they overcome poverty when the future of the country spends 10-12 hours a day assembling shoes and soccer balls instead of getting an education, let alone REAL workplace skills? Nike and other sweatshop labour using corporations are locking down their future wealth by keeping these countries poor by not paying workers fair wages.
A country with no income can't hire teachers. Workers are the source of a countries income but these corporations are stealing the workers income.
And Dauntless, I would like to know how you can defend the practices of these corporations. Families can't make a living while Nike makes a killing. The families are barely surviving on their wages and have little hope of a better future while they are working at Nike.
when Nike starts paying its manufactures a fair wage i might buy their products.
Why do we create disposable products when reusable ones can be manufactured for just as little cash? These products are not recyclable and will probably release toxic materials as they degrade in a landfill. Why not create an inexpensive phone which can be recharged and used more than once? Oh yeah, then the manufactures wouldn't have the constant stream of revenue from users who used up the battery life.
This seems to be a ploy from the cellular providers to get people who can't afford calling plans to begin using mobile phones and, eventually, they will buy a 'real' cell phone. At that time the mobile providers can lock the users into a contract with outrageous termination fees. They are borrowing the drug dealer's business model -- give the first hit and you'll have a cell phone junkie for life.
-josh
Where have you been? Global warming has been in the news for years. If you were to regularly read any legitimate news site other than slashdot you would know this has been an issue for some time.
did i eat the bait?