There will always be people who will not be satisfied with our current level of understanding, the current state of technology, and the current prospects for humanity's future. As has been true for all time, these people will push civilization forward.
That's why you also need to invent existentialism.
I know it's already been invented; but for the people who will never be satisfied, it has to be constantly reinvented.
Your fatal misunderstanding of minimum wages is where your model fails....Also, empirical evidence is against you, with higher minimum wages actually triggering even more employment since (among other reasons) the lower incomes don't save, they spend.
I agree. There's another, more important, reason why minimum wages trigger more employment, though: below the subsistence threshold the law of supply does not hold. Think about it: if you were working forty hours a week just to barely scrape by, and your wage was cut by 1/2, would you work less hours because you'd rather have leisure than the lower wage? No? Well that's exactly what both neo-classical and Austrian models say you would do. In reality, you would find a second job and try to increase your hours to roughly double what they were to maintain the same type of subsistence you had before. So if then your wage is increased by a government mandate you will go back to working less and open up a job to someone who was previously unemployed. Minimum wage increases actually decrease unemployment unless they are set at absurdly high levels. It's totally common sense but has yet to break into the mainstream of economics. If you're interested in the formal model of this concept, economists Robert Prasch and Maryke Dessing have each given it a theoretical treatment, which you can find on Google Scholar.
...this system rewards people who produce nothing of value, make nothing, enrich no one's lives, do not create art, do not expand the sphere of human knowledge, and provide no meaningful service to humanity or the country.
But they provide liquitidity! Don't ask me what that actually is, but apparently it's important.
Seriously, you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. A windows batch file is just a collection of windows commands...
Yeah, but we were talking about DOS batch files. Feel free to lecture me all day about what he means when he says "DOS batch files", but I'm going to continue to interpret "DOS batch files" to mean "DOS batch files". Ok?
...only with Windows 7 is a suitable replacement for command.com being shipped with Windows.
Um...try cmd.exe? Only been around for, what, 10 years now? You only use command.com for compatibility if you specifically need to run DOS programs from your batch file, which I doubt is the case because if it were, the OP would have said "I need to run DOS programs, help!" instead of "I need to send some messages to printers, is DOS the right approach?"
You're an idiot, you have no idea what "obsolete" means.
I may be an idiot, but you're clearly the one who doesn't know what obsolete means, or deprecated for that matter. From wikipedia: "Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior in one or more aspects." Since win32 is superior in one or more apsects to DOS, and nobody but OP really uses DOS, I'd say that constitutes obsolescence. The fact that the commands still work in the DOS subsystem has nothing to do with whether they're obsolete. As far as the things you say "aren't deprecated yet", deprecated doesn't mean the commands have been taken out, it means they're only still available for compatibility. Here's a hint: if you have to say "yet" to claim that something's "not deprecated", that means it's already deprecated. Here's another hint: try looking up big words before lecturing others on what said words mean.
Python is much easier to write and much more maintainable than a batch script. Unfortunately it can be unfeasible to require this dependency on Windows machines.
Good dependency-free (albeit platform-specific) alternatives are.vbs (visual basic script) and.js. Both allow access to more modern dialog boxes etc. Either script should be executed under wscript.exe (windows scripting host) but I believe there is an automatic file association by default (at least for.vbs files).
For a more modern alternative, try Powershell, however it is only present by default on Windows 7.
But what if your users think it's a virus, because they've been taught never to open.vbs files?
If I swallow my thumb drive containing all my favorite programs, would they come out decompiled?
More importantly, if you swallow a thumb drive containing all your favorite porn, what happens?
(if you contracted VD, you'd have a better claim than this oaf to the headline of this page...)
How is this different from transmitting a virus via floppy diskette, other than the fact that he carried it on the inside of his hand, and the read/write mechanism was RF instead of magnetic?
Easy. This guy was the bigger idiot. That's the difference.
Why would I download Chrome when I already have Chromium which gets updated automatically by Update Manager, remaining consistent with everything else on my laptop?
Because it's unstable? I don't know about you but my chromium-browser gets the quirk of the week.
But there's a very big difference between telling Sally Paper Pusher not to use certain substances because "God says it's wrong", and telling Nancy EMS Dispatcher that she can't use certain substances because they could impair her performance in her public safety job and get others killed.
Yeah, and telling jokes about using substances could kill someone's sense of humor, too.
There's no longer a need for anything to actually happen -- all that's required is for a corp to assert "fear of [whatever]" (litigation, disparagement of business, loss of competitive advantage) for them to justify any extension of control over their employees.
Well, I don't think anyone could litigate them for this, and I doubt the city of West Allis is going to suffer loss of competitive advantage or disparagement of business...
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If it's that easy why aren't you a billionare? (or are you?)
Yeah, you didn't know George Soros posts on /.? His nick is JimboFBX.
...and a year from now, the only way to tell who is richer than whom will be by comparing the size of two transfinite ordinals....
Oh my god...we'll all become star-bellied sneeches!
There will always be people who will not be satisfied with our current level of understanding, the current state of technology, and the current prospects for humanity's future. As has been true for all time, these people will push civilization forward.
That's why you also need to invent existentialism.
I know it's already been invented; but for the people who will never be satisfied, it has to be constantly reinvented.
Your fatal misunderstanding of minimum wages is where your model fails....Also, empirical evidence is against you, with higher minimum wages actually triggering even more employment since (among other reasons) the lower incomes don't save, they spend.
I agree. There's another, more important, reason why minimum wages trigger more employment, though: below the subsistence threshold the law of supply does not hold. Think about it: if you were working forty hours a week just to barely scrape by, and your wage was cut by 1/2, would you work less hours because you'd rather have leisure than the lower wage? No? Well that's exactly what both neo-classical and Austrian models say you would do. In reality, you would find a second job and try to increase your hours to roughly double what they were to maintain the same type of subsistence you had before. So if then your wage is increased by a government mandate you will go back to working less and open up a job to someone who was previously unemployed. Minimum wage increases actually decrease unemployment unless they are set at absurdly high levels. It's totally common sense but has yet to break into the mainstream of economics. If you're interested in the formal model of this concept, economists Robert Prasch and Maryke Dessing have each given it a theoretical treatment, which you can find on Google Scholar.
Disclaimer: That's a funny, not a troll.
I like your disclaimer so much I think I'm going to use it as a sig. It appears to be working...
...this system rewards people who produce nothing of value, make nothing, enrich no one's lives, do not create art, do not expand the sphere of human knowledge, and provide no meaningful service to humanity or the country.
But they provide liquitidity! Don't ask me what that actually is, but apparently it's important.
...did what we said it was gonna do. Yawn.
Seriously, you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. A windows batch file is just a collection of windows commands...
Yeah, but we were talking about DOS batch files. Feel free to lecture me all day about what he means when he says "DOS batch files", but I'm going to continue to interpret "DOS batch files" to mean "DOS batch files". Ok?
...only with Windows 7 is a suitable replacement for command.com being shipped with Windows.
Um...try cmd.exe? Only been around for, what, 10 years now? You only use command.com for compatibility if you specifically need to run DOS programs from your batch file, which I doubt is the case because if it were, the OP would have said "I need to run DOS programs, help!" instead of "I need to send some messages to printers, is DOS the right approach?"
You're an idiot, you have no idea what "obsolete" means.
I may be an idiot, but you're clearly the one who doesn't know what obsolete means, or deprecated for that matter. From wikipedia: "Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior in one or more aspects." Since win32 is superior in one or more apsects to DOS, and nobody but OP really uses DOS, I'd say that constitutes obsolescence. The fact that the commands still work in the DOS subsystem has nothing to do with whether they're obsolete. As far as the things you say "aren't deprecated yet", deprecated doesn't mean the commands have been taken out, it means they're only still available for compatibility. Here's a hint: if you have to say "yet" to claim that something's "not deprecated", that means it's already deprecated. Here's another hint: try looking up big words before lecturing others on what said words mean.
...and even generate a small web page which, when launched from the batch file...
I don't think those two things belong in the same sentence. Hell, they barely belong in the same century...
Are DOS Batch files too 1990s to be taken seriously in 2010?
Hell, DOS Batch files were too 1980s to be taken seriously in 1998.
Call me crazy but I love DOS.
Hey, so do I. I love the TRS-80 too, that doesn't mean it's not completely obsolete.
Python is much easier to write and much more maintainable than a batch script. Unfortunately it can be unfeasible to require this dependency on Windows machines.
Good dependency-free (albeit platform-specific) alternatives are .vbs (visual basic script) and .js. Both allow access to more modern dialog boxes etc. Either script should be executed under wscript.exe (windows scripting host) but I believe there is an automatic file association by default (at least for .vbs files).
For a more modern alternative, try Powershell, however it is only present by default on Windows 7.
But what if your users think it's a virus, because they've been taught never to open .vbs files?
If I swallow my thumb drive containing all my favorite programs, would they come out decompiled?
More importantly, if you swallow a thumb drive containing all your favorite porn, what happens?
(if you contracted VD, you'd have a better claim than this oaf to the headline of this page...)
Sounds to me like someone lost their grant money or something, and was trying to justify eating doughnuts for 3 years and doing nothing else.
Yes, but they would be cybernetic doughnuts!
How is this different from transmitting a virus via floppy diskette, other than the fact that he carried it on the inside of his hand, and the read/write mechanism was RF instead of magnetic?
Easy. This guy was the bigger idiot. That's the difference.
Or was the good doctor merely going after being 'first' at something?
Yeah. And as we know, firsts are kinda like records.
Why would I download Chrome when I already have Chromium which gets updated automatically by Update Manager, remaining consistent with everything else on my laptop?
Because it's unstable? I don't know about you but my chromium-browser gets the quirk of the week.
Microsoft has both of them beat with IE 6.
Opera 10! Beat that!
So, not surprisingly there are people who think that if too many f-bombs are dropped the planet will explode.
I dare you to prove that it won't.
'There are an infinite number of alternatives that CBS could have chosen but its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision.'
The entertainment industry trying to shock and offend in order to boost ratings? That's never happened before! Outrageous!
Don't like it? Don't sign up. And don't get me started with my take on pacifists.
Wait...so we can't refuse to sign up, and we can't sign up if we "don't like it?" Is it just me, or are you telling us all what to like?
But there's a very big difference between telling Sally Paper Pusher not to use certain substances because "God says it's wrong", and telling Nancy EMS Dispatcher that she can't use certain substances because they could impair her performance in her public safety job and get others killed.
Yeah, and telling jokes about using substances could kill someone's sense of humor, too.
A simple "that's not cool, please take that down" would have resulted in the content being gone from the internet forever...
While I agree completely with the rest of your post, I have to point out that nothing is ever gone from the internet forever.
Are my first-amendment rights applicable?
No, as they protect you from the government, not from private entities.
For claiming that a government agency is a private entity, and not the government? Good job!
On the one hand, they tried to remove an employee in a critical job who had been linked - via a Facebook comment - to drugs.
That "link" reminds me of the link between pot and hard drugs.
There's no longer a need for anything to actually happen -- all that's required is for a corp to assert "fear of [whatever]" (litigation, disparagement of business, loss of competitive advantage) for them to justify any extension of control over their employees.
Well, I don't think anyone could litigate them for this, and I doubt the city of West Allis is going to suffer loss of competitive advantage or disparagement of business...
You think the police's job is to protect people's freedoms? You must be Swedish
Borg? Sounds Swedish.