I wonder what percentage of the corporation must be owned by U.S. citizens to get newly defined freedom of paid speech: 90%, 50%, or 0.000001%? If I buy a single share of PetroChina -- I'm a citizen of the U.S. -- does that give PetroChina the right to spend up to $16B (last year's profits) on oil-industry friendly senators and representatives?
Because of their Corporate structure, are you arguing that Congress could make laws regulating their news reporting or election coverage?
Reality: The 1st Amendment explicitly protects freedom of the press. This recent travesty from a corporatist supreme court has nothing to do with Freedom of Press, it's about claiming that corporations are persons with an equal right to free speech.
No Corporations and Unions are different from Political Parties and Individuals in a specific way. The first two are not organized with a single set of political ideals in mind. Thus you will end up with people who's money or work go towards causes they do not believe in..
Except that the Corporation in this case was organized with a single set of political ideals in mind. The Corporation in this case was Citizen's United. The Corporation was formed to create a film critical of Hillary Clinton.
Which was why the original question in front of the supreme court was very limited.
When the case was first argued last March, it seemed a curiosity likely to be decided on narrow grounds. The court could have ruled that Citizens United was not the sort of group to which the McCain-Feingold law was meant to apply, or that the law did not mean to address 90-minute documentaries, or that video-on-demand technologies were not regulated by the law. Thursday’s decision rejected those alternatives. [NYTimes]
You might be right and perhaps Citizens United had a valid case as a group of individuals. However, the five corporatist supreme court justices decided that they could take this much farther to grant rights to legal entities defined by contract law (i.e. corporations) that were never intended by the Constitution.
Good point. Since corporations were granted their personhood in 1884 there has never been a corporation as President or even Governor. By now we should have seen a Senator Dow Chemical or a Representative Monstanto, but there's obviously a pervasive bias in the system that keeps corporations down.
Sure, they have nearly infinite amounts of money, are essentially immortal, require no sleep, clean water, fresh air, or safe food, and have two political parties and 60% of the Supreme Court at their beck and call. But, could that have ever made up for the pain they must have felt knowing that they couldn't fully exercise their 1st Amendment Rights?
Thank God the Roberts Court has righted this injustice and ended over a century of disenfranchisement of our most vulnerable pseudo-citizens.
Good. IMHO, the content of the NY Times is valuable and deserves to be supported. I've been looking into ways to pay for the content at the NYTimes for years. I was Times Select subscriber and was disappointed to see it go. I've tried paying for a few issues through my Nook (please excuse the gadget name drop) but I found the experience slow, difficult to navigate, and unsatisfying. I'd subscribe to the paper edition, but I really don't want to have to recycle 30lbs of paper a week. I really like the web experience and am looking forward to supporting it.
Sometimes I feel they they should give it a rest...
No kidding. Sometimes reality has such a depressing bias. Maybe they should just replace the "nature" part of the show with something that's not such a downer, like action figures or NASCAR.
Let's be clear, if it's not e-ink or similar, this is in no way competition for the Kindle/Nook/Sony eReader
True, but I think it explains some of the hype. While it's not directed at the same market as the Kindle, the size and interaction may be similar enough to be riding that wave a little bit.
I found a quick quote that claimed "the general rule of thumb for office coffee service pricing is $60 to $120 per employee per year." So he's talking about a business with at least 667 employees and probably close to 1000.
So, if the average employee is 0.1% more productive with free coffee getting rid of the free coffee was a bad business decision and the Cxx (COO, CFO, whatever) who made that decision should be beaten to death with his own intestines or fired.
IMHO, getting rid of free coffee is a huge mistake. In the scheme of things it's a tiny expense and you're going to lose far more in terms of people bickering about the coffee fund, people running out "on break" to buy coffee, and the basic office environment.
Engineers, however, are correct and they have the data to back it up.
Which is why we all agree that vi is better than emacs, Linux is better than OS-X which is better than Windows and, of course, Java is superior to C#.;-)
Seriously thouch, here's my theory on the "engineers as terrorists" connection: terrorism is about wounded pride and disrespect and don't engineers (or, more broadly "nerds") often feel like society fails to respect their inherent greatness? Whether we're talking Columbine, Oklahoma City, or 9/11 it seems that the common thread justifying the attacks is a perceived disrespect: those faceless jocks|bureaucrats|infidels don't respect my intellect|race|religion|nation therefore they need to be taught a lesson.
This information is being mailed to you as a reply to your post regarding Apex Technology Group Inc (Sarvesh Kumar Dharayan) (www.apextgi.com)Please find the employment agreement letter http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10702214/agreement, which I received after I started working for Apex at a client location. None of the terms were part of the initial agreement between me and Apex Technology Group Inc.
I would like to take this oppurtunity to highlight several aspect's of the 9 page legal agreement which might be important for you. For example: 30 day termination notice or forget your last paycheck when you quit, If you join a company (including any level between you and Apex) then pay $35000 or face a law suit, $9000 for legal,training and guest services when you quit. $35000 if you quit in between a contract...etc
The document at http://www.docstoc.com/ is not available any more. I assume it was the victim of a takedown request.
Once again, I want to make it clear that I am in favor of technical immigration (both to and from the U.S., for that matter) but it's these kinds of alleged abuses that have made it clear that the H-1B program is fundamentally flawed.
Now, which one you think hurts the most the average American?
Depends, does the DV program allow the worker to negotiate their salary and change jobs? If so, then I'd say the H-1B hurts more. The H-1B is, essentially, indentured servitude at below market rates that hurts local competition. My problem with H-1B is and has always been with the restrictions it imposes on the workers it imports. I am very PRO immigration. I believe it brings in the best and the brightest from around the world, but I want them to compete freely.
... they designed the system, got the experience and then left to either set up their own company, to go abroad or become a contractor, and leave the bug fixing to someone else.
There used to be a solution for that back in the 90's. It was called equity ownership. If you tell a programmer, "build this app" he'll build the app. If you tell a programmer, "help build this company" then there's a good chance he'll help build the company.
I wish I had mod points. You deserve a +5 insightful.
Unfortunately, it's even worse. We have a human bias towards good news and, once we've established those beliefs, we have a human bias toward the persistence of those beliefs even if they are discredited.
[B]eliefs can survive potent logical or empirical challenges. They can survive and even be bolstered by evidence that most uncommitted observers would agree logically demands some weakening of such beliefs. They can even survive the total destruction of their original evidential bases. —Lee Ross and Craig Anderson (1982). p.149
. . . accept the new role and start looking . . . you are probably comparatively underpaid anyway.
Exactly. Short and too the point. You don't owe them anything for this so-called promotion. Negotiate the highest salary you can get and then spend your time getting that resume polished.
I guess you only like welfare when you are a recipient? If you live in upstate New York, NYC is subsidizing your roads a hell of a lot more than you are subsidizing their mass transit. Rich urban centers are almost always net losers when it comes to taxes and poor, rural areas are almost always net welfare recipients. You should be sending yearly Thank You cards to those "strap hangers".
The city has a strong imbalance of payments with the federal and state governments. New York City receives 83 cents in services for every $1 it sends to Washington in taxes (or annually sends $13.1 billion more to Washington than it receives back). The city also sends an additional $11.1 billion more each year to the state of New York than it receives back.
I agree. I used Eclipse for years but I've started using Netbeans 6.7 for more and more. The problem we have where I work is that we do PHP projects and Java projects. Six or eight months ago we were having real trouble getting getting PDT to play nice and, so far, NetBeans just works and switching between projects is very easy.
Anyway, they are both great IDE's that continue to get better and better. If I have to switch back to Eclipse is won't be a major sacrifice, but I'll be unhappy that there won't be a free IDE competitor to keep the Eclipse devs motivated:-)
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I wonder what percentage of the corporation must be owned by U.S. citizens to get newly defined freedom of paid speech: 90%, 50%, or 0.000001%? If I buy a single share of PetroChina -- I'm a citizen of the U.S. -- does that give PetroChina the right to spend up to $16B (last year's profits) on oil-industry friendly senators and representatives?
Bzzt. Straw man alert:
Because of their Corporate structure, are you arguing that Congress could make laws regulating their news reporting or election coverage?
Reality: The 1st Amendment explicitly protects freedom of the press. This recent travesty from a corporatist supreme court has nothing to do with Freedom of Press, it's about claiming that corporations are persons with an equal right to free speech.
No Corporations and Unions are different from Political Parties and Individuals in a specific way. The first two are not organized with a single set of political ideals in mind. Thus you will end up with people who's money or work go towards causes they do not believe in. .
Except that the Corporation in this case was organized with a single set of political ideals in mind. The Corporation in this case was Citizen's United. The Corporation was formed to create a film critical of Hillary Clinton.
Which was why the original question in front of the supreme court was very limited.
When the case was first argued last March, it seemed a curiosity likely to be decided on narrow grounds. The court could have ruled that Citizens United was not the sort of group to which the McCain-Feingold law was meant to apply, or that the law did not mean to address 90-minute documentaries, or that video-on-demand technologies were not regulated by the law. Thursday’s decision rejected those alternatives. [NYTimes]
You might be right and perhaps Citizens United had a valid case as a group of individuals. However, the five corporatist supreme court justices decided that they could take this much farther to grant rights to legal entities defined by contract law (i.e. corporations) that were never intended by the Constitution.
Good point. Since corporations were granted their personhood in 1884 there has never been a corporation as President or even Governor. By now we should have seen a Senator Dow Chemical or a Representative Monstanto, but there's obviously a pervasive bias in the system that keeps corporations down.
Sure, they have nearly infinite amounts of money, are essentially immortal, require no sleep, clean water, fresh air, or safe food, and have two political parties and 60% of the Supreme Court at their beck and call. But, could that have ever made up for the pain they must have felt knowing that they couldn't fully exercise their 1st Amendment Rights?
Thank God the Roberts Court has righted this injustice and ended over a century of disenfranchisement of our most vulnerable pseudo-citizens.
Good. IMHO, the content of the NY Times is valuable and deserves to be supported. I've been looking into ways to pay for the content at the NYTimes for years. I was Times Select subscriber and was disappointed to see it go. I've tried paying for a few issues through my Nook (please excuse the gadget name drop) but I found the experience slow, difficult to navigate, and unsatisfying. I'd subscribe to the paper edition, but I really don't want to have to recycle 30lbs of paper a week. I really like the web experience and am looking forward to supporting it.
No kidding. Sometimes reality has such a depressing bias. Maybe they should just replace the "nature" part of the show with something that's not such a downer, like action figures or NASCAR.
You can't just make half the people disappear with a right-shift like that; though it would do wonders for the unemployment rate.
True, but I think it explains some of the hype. While it's not directed at the same market as the Kindle, the size and interaction may be similar enough to be riding that wave a little bit.
I found a quick quote that claimed "the general rule of thumb for office coffee service pricing is $60 to $120 per employee per year." So he's talking about a business with at least 667 employees and probably close to 1000.
So, if the average employee is 0.1% more productive with free coffee getting rid of the free coffee was a bad business decision and the Cxx (COO, CFO, whatever) who made that decision should be beaten to death with his own intestines or fired.
IMHO, getting rid of free coffee is a huge mistake. In the scheme of things it's a tiny expense and you're going to lose far more in terms of people bickering about the coffee fund, people running out "on break" to buy coffee, and the basic office environment.
I was thinking it was a 10,000 BCE prequel to Idiocracy.
Which is why we all agree that vi is better than emacs, Linux is better than OS-X which is better than Windows and, of course, Java is superior to C#. ;-)
Seriously thouch, here's my theory on the "engineers as terrorists" connection: terrorism is about wounded pride and disrespect and don't engineers (or, more broadly "nerds") often feel like society fails to respect their inherent greatness? Whether we're talking Columbine, Oklahoma City, or 9/11 it seems that the common thread justifying the attacks is a perceived disrespect: those faceless jocks|bureaucrats|infidels don't respect my intellect|race|religion|nation therefore they need to be taught a lesson.
Here's a definition from someone who should know:
Here's one guy's description of the Apex Technology Group's H-1B agreement (from http://ripoffatapextgi.blogspot.com/ ):
The document at http://www.docstoc.com/ is not available any more. I assume it was the victim of a takedown request.
Once again, I want to make it clear that I am in favor of technical immigration (both to and from the U.S., for that matter) but it's these kinds of alleged abuses that have made it clear that the H-1B program is fundamentally flawed.
Depends, does the DV program allow the worker to negotiate their salary and change jobs? If so, then I'd say the H-1B hurts more. The H-1B is, essentially, indentured servitude at below market rates that hurts local competition. My problem with H-1B is and has always been with the restrictions it imposes on the workers it imports. I am very PRO immigration. I believe it brings in the best and the brightest from around the world, but I want them to compete freely.
There used to be a solution for that back in the 90's. It was called equity ownership. If you tell a programmer, "build this app" he'll build the app. If you tell a programmer, "help build this company" then there's a good chance he'll help build the company.
I wish I had mod points. You deserve a +5 insightful.
Unfortunately, it's even worse. We have a human bias towards good news and, once we've established those beliefs, we have a human bias toward the persistence of those beliefs even if they are discredited.
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Exactly. Short and too the point. You don't owe them anything for this so-called promotion. Negotiate the highest salary you can get and then spend your time getting that resume polished.
Unlikely... but I bet there's a few Japanese whaling (sorry, I mean "research") ships that will be buying these in bulk.
MAN! THAT was excellent. You sure told them. I'm GLAD that you are helping to ELEVATE the _level_ or DIScourse in this country!!!!!
I guess you only like welfare when you are a recipient? If you live in upstate New York, NYC is subsidizing your roads a hell of a lot more than you are subsidizing their mass transit. Rich urban centers are almost always net losers when it comes to taxes and poor, rural areas are almost always net welfare recipients. You should be sending yearly Thank You cards to those "strap hangers".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_New_York_City#City_budget
I agree. I used Eclipse for years but I've started using Netbeans 6.7 for more and more. The problem we have where I work is that we do PHP projects and Java projects. Six or eight months ago we were having real trouble getting getting PDT to play nice and, so far, NetBeans just works and switching between projects is very easy.
Anyway, they are both great IDE's that continue to get better and better. If I have to switch back to Eclipse is won't be a major sacrifice, but I'll be unhappy that there won't be a free IDE competitor to keep the Eclipse devs motivated :-)
Yes
If you have an inane first post and +5 Insightful mod, then I'll believe you hacked the server...
What is a piracetam?