There is quite a difference in companies partnering with NASA, and thus needing NASA to succeed for their own growth, and corporations actively competing with NASA for their profits, where NASA's success is a threat. Because that is the goal, make no mistake, for the corporations to carve out all of the profit from NASA, until NASA will be lucky if they have funding to launch a bottle rocket.
You act like NASA has a choice and isn't caught between corporate funded Libertarian/TeaParty/NeoCon PACS paying off congresscritters and senators to strong arm them into these deals by holding their budget hostage.
Why is a third category of worker needed? What are the benefits and down sides? Is this going to be exploited by walmart the way they give their workers 34 hours per week to avoid giving them benefits?
Of course corporations will exploit any new worker category. Just like how they exploited the role of "associate" into a meaningless mockery so they can claim a justification for unpaid overtime. It's time people started to accept that corporations are not designed to be benevolent overlords but exploitative con-artists.
I would bet serious money this "article" is part of some astroturf campaign by Uber or the Koch brothers to put yet another chink in the laws and protections that protect us from outright corporate serfdom.
"Free Speech" is not without it's limits. You can't shout fire in a crowd, you can't threaten other people, you can't say outright lies about people. 99.9% of the AC's commenting on/. are not afraid of government reprisals, they're worried about their friends and family finding out what raging a-holes they are, and possibly getting sued for libel.
That is the most laughable thing I've ever read, coming from an AC. How about signing in with your real name and address, THEN posting comments about being able to speak freely.
It matters, in some cases, such as their sync cables. Apple's walled garden is so high most people buy Apple's peripherals just to be sure they'll work.
I'm still shocked, to be honest, that Apple uses standard headphone jacks though.
Back in the day of analog cables, there was some margin of truth in Monster's claims of cable quality and gold plating. Now that everything is digital though? A rusty coat hanger can carry a digital signal as well as their best cable, so yeah fark 'em.
Annd corporations are WHY you have a 401K, instead of a pension plan or a proper social system. It's all about their profits, always, if you mattered you'd be a CEO.
Thank you for your well thought out and rational post. Now hurry along, you've got to make it to your MRA meeting on time or you'll miss the next episode of Coast to Coast. Tonight they're revealing the lizard people who are trying to take away sovereign citizen's gun rights!
Interesting.. and yet the people who "invested" their money in this kid didn't insist on his getting a degree that would guarantee their ROI, now did they? They took a gamble, much like how you take a gamble when you go into a multi-year degree program just what will or won't win the economic lottery in the future.
Of course it's easy enough to sit on the sidelines and say Engineering! or something similar, except that's still not a guarantee and it ignores the person's individual proclivities. Not everyone is capable of or interested in being an engineer. Also why would you want all that additional competition, it'll just lower that industry's wages.
Your car carries about 1/100,000th of the cargo a fully laden train can. Trains aren't there for speed of delivery, they're there for the capacity/cost over time.
You have that a bit backwards. US businesses have paid off US politics to sell out US workers. Wal-Mart did more for China than any US policy ever could.
People say the average worker isn't making as much as they used to, but I think that people are just buying a lot more stuff than they used to.
People do say the average worker isn't making as much as they used to. Yep. Friggen mathematicians who calculate things like GDP and median earning vs inflation. It's not some folksy saying, it's fact, we earn less money than we did 20-30 years ago and wages have been stagnant for quite a while.
Also, yes, we do buy more than we used to buy. That is called keeping the economy running, and if we weren't buying all those gadgets and trinkets and things *you* don't think are necessary our economy would be in even worse shape. As for the credit card debt, if wages were at least keeping even with what they have historically been people wouldn't have to fall back on so much credit debt now would they.
Not that people such as yourself who point fingers and speciously declare what other people need or don't need to own would ever willingly put your own lives under someone else's scrutiny to be told what you don't need to have either.
Honestly, I don't know why people don't expect governments to spy on each other, even if they are allies. Every country plays for advantages, and it's not impossible for an ally to setup a politician on one side then defect to another side's position to earn some points. You have to be confident that what a politician is saying is what they actually intend to say.
Truthfully, no nation has friends. They're all frenemies at best.
Simple example: I want to sell an Android phone. Not a problem, I can download AOSP and run it. Except that a lot of apps (e.g. almost all mobile banking apps) are only available via Google Play. Here's where the problems start: I can only license Google Play if I also preinstall a load of other Google apps (and don't install any competing apps in a few categories and in a way that allows the user to hide them from the UI, but not actually remove them and reclaim the space).
An interesting example except for a couple things..
There's absolutely nothing stopping you from loading more than one app store on your Android.
Every other half decent app store also bundles their own services as well and makes them impossible-ish to remove (Looking directly at you Samsung).
You CAN delete them if you root your phone though.
No, Apple just forces all development for their device to be with their dev kit only, and tosses out any app created with a different dev kit such as Adobe even if it produces the same code.
Apple allows competing apps on their phones but cripples them in comparison to their own favored apps.
Apple forces all app purchases to go through their app store and there is no other method of installing apps on their devices.
Apple actually is a convicted monopolist on rigging book deals to screw Amazon.
Apple is way, way more evil and monopolistic here than Google could ever try to be. I guess the EU's lesson here for Google is to close up their ecosystem, stop licensing their OS to other manufacturers, make their own phones and screw everyone else as much as possible.
Really? Google "forces" other manufacturers to use their app store? Did Amazon get that memo because apparently there are a lot of defective Kindle's out there.
Are there videos that show justified shootings that don't make national news because there's no story other than "cop defends life of self and/or others"?
1) Yes, the police have a siege mentality. Is it justified? Not by these statistics http://www.nleomf.org/facts/of... Officer fatalities are down, and have been down and in fact are not appreciably higher than they were 100 years ago.
2) Yes, modern media and CERTAIN POLITICIANS reinforce the siege mentality, because it benefits them. From selling military class hardware to police, to privatized prisons, policing is big business and is marketed to justify big ticket expenses just as aggressively as the next iPhone.
3) The war on drugs provided the POLICE with a strong profit motive as well, as their policy of seizing property disproportionately benefited police agencies to aggressively pursue even the smallest of drug cases.
4) The police make little to no effort to weed out the irresponsible officers, and in many cases actively pursue programs to recruit them. They defend these known disruptors to the ends of the earth and will do anything rather than admit fault. They no longer attempt to be members of their communities, just the biggest bullies in the community.
5) The media and body politic never make a story out of the DMV doing their jobs, or the garbage men doing their jobs or a hell of a lot of people DOING WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEM!!!! Why should the public have to stroke LEO's egos for obeying the damn law and their own procedures???
A reputation is not proof. There are more than a few "great" men who've gotten by on their reputation for past deeds while they talk impressionable young devotees into doing the bulk of the actual work for them, which they then take credit for.
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There is quite a difference in companies partnering with NASA, and thus needing NASA to succeed for their own growth, and corporations actively competing with NASA for their profits, where NASA's success is a threat. Because that is the goal, make no mistake, for the corporations to carve out all of the profit from NASA, until NASA will be lucky if they have funding to launch a bottle rocket.
You act like NASA has a choice and isn't caught between corporate funded Libertarian/TeaParty/NeoCon PACS paying off congresscritters and senators to strong arm them into these deals by holding their budget hostage.
Why is a third category of worker needed? What are the benefits and down sides? Is this going to be exploited by walmart the way they give their workers 34 hours per week to avoid giving them benefits?
Of course corporations will exploit any new worker category. Just like how they exploited the role of "associate" into a meaningless mockery so they can claim a justification for unpaid overtime. It's time people started to accept that corporations are not designed to be benevolent overlords but exploitative con-artists.
I would bet serious money this "article" is part of some astroturf campaign by Uber or the Koch brothers to put yet another chink in the laws and protections that protect us from outright corporate serfdom.
A decrease in price does not equal an increase in quality. I put forth as evidence everything Wal-Mart sells, especially clothing.
No, the Parent was wanting to say "A city large enough to host a pro-sports team".
"Free Speech" is not without it's limits. You can't shout fire in a crowd, you can't threaten other people, you can't say outright lies about people. 99.9% of the AC's commenting on /. are not afraid of government reprisals, they're worried about their friends and family finding out what raging a-holes they are, and possibly getting sued for libel.
Suck it.
- An American Enjoying Their Freedom of Speech
Posted by an Anonymous Coward, so certain of their freedom of speech they won't identify themselves.
That is the most laughable thing I've ever read, coming from an AC. How about signing in with your real name and address, THEN posting comments about being able to speak freely.
It matters, in some cases, such as their sync cables. Apple's walled garden is so high most people buy Apple's peripherals just to be sure they'll work.
I'm still shocked, to be honest, that Apple uses standard headphone jacks though.
Back in the day of analog cables, there was some margin of truth in Monster's claims of cable quality and gold plating. Now that everything is digital though? A rusty coat hanger can carry a digital signal as well as their best cable, so yeah fark 'em.
Annd corporations are WHY you have a 401K, instead of a pension plan or a proper social system. It's all about their profits, always, if you mattered you'd be a CEO.
Thank you for your well thought out and rational post. Now hurry along, you've got to make it to your MRA meeting on time or you'll miss the next episode of Coast to Coast. Tonight they're revealing the lizard people who are trying to take away sovereign citizen's gun rights!
Interesting.. and yet the people who "invested" their money in this kid didn't insist on his getting a degree that would guarantee their ROI, now did they? They took a gamble, much like how you take a gamble when you go into a multi-year degree program just what will or won't win the economic lottery in the future.
Of course it's easy enough to sit on the sidelines and say Engineering! or something similar, except that's still not a guarantee and it ignores the person's individual proclivities. Not everyone is capable of or interested in being an engineer. Also why would you want all that additional competition, it'll just lower that industry's wages.
Your car carries about 1/100,000th of the cargo a fully laden train can. Trains aren't there for speed of delivery, they're there for the capacity/cost over time.
You have that a bit backwards. US businesses have paid off US politics to sell out US workers. Wal-Mart did more for China than any US policy ever could.
People say the average worker isn't making as much as they used to, but I think that people are just buying a lot more stuff than they used to.
People do say the average worker isn't making as much as they used to. Yep. Friggen mathematicians who calculate things like GDP and median earning vs inflation. It's not some folksy saying, it's fact, we earn less money than we did 20-30 years ago and wages have been stagnant for quite a while.
Also, yes, we do buy more than we used to buy. That is called keeping the economy running, and if we weren't buying all those gadgets and trinkets and things *you* don't think are necessary our economy would be in even worse shape. As for the credit card debt, if wages were at least keeping even with what they have historically been people wouldn't have to fall back on so much credit debt now would they.
Not that people such as yourself who point fingers and speciously declare what other people need or don't need to own would ever willingly put your own lives under someone else's scrutiny to be told what you don't need to have either.
Honestly, I don't know why people don't expect governments to spy on each other, even if they are allies. Every country plays for advantages, and it's not impossible for an ally to setup a politician on one side then defect to another side's position to earn some points. You have to be confident that what a politician is saying is what they actually intend to say.
Truthfully, no nation has friends. They're all frenemies at best.
Show me a phone that has Samsung App store on it, but doesn't have other Samsung apps forced onto it.
Show me an Android phone you can't install competing app stores on.
Thank you for admitting you're wrong.
Simple example: I want to sell an Android phone. Not a problem, I can download AOSP and run it. Except that a lot of apps (e.g. almost all mobile banking apps) are only available via Google Play. Here's where the problems start: I can only license Google Play if I also preinstall a load of other Google apps (and don't install any competing apps in a few categories and in a way that allows the user to hide them from the UI, but not actually remove them and reclaim the space).
An interesting example except for a couple things..
No, Apple just forces all development for their device to be with their dev kit only, and tosses out any app created with a different dev kit such as Adobe even if it produces the same code.
Apple allows competing apps on their phones but cripples them in comparison to their own favored apps.
Apple forces all app purchases to go through their app store and there is no other method of installing apps on their devices.
Apple actually is a convicted monopolist on rigging book deals to screw Amazon.
Apple is way, way more evil and monopolistic here than Google could ever try to be. I guess the EU's lesson here for Google is to close up their ecosystem, stop licensing their OS to other manufacturers, make their own phones and screw everyone else as much as possible.
Really? Google "forces" other manufacturers to use their app store? Did Amazon get that memo because apparently there are a lot of defective Kindle's out there.
Are there videos that show justified shootings that don't make national news because there's no story other than "cop defends life of self and/or others"?
Yes, it's a TV show called Cops, maybe you've seen it.
The police have no lack of cheerleaders who will always dismiss public and especially minority complaints against them.
1) Yes, the police have a siege mentality. Is it justified? Not by these statistics http://www.nleomf.org/facts/of... Officer fatalities are down, and have been down and in fact are not appreciably higher than they were 100 years ago.
2) Yes, modern media and CERTAIN POLITICIANS reinforce the siege mentality, because it benefits them. From selling military class hardware to police, to privatized prisons, policing is big business and is marketed to justify big ticket expenses just as aggressively as the next iPhone.
3) The war on drugs provided the POLICE with a strong profit motive as well, as their policy of seizing property disproportionately benefited police agencies to aggressively pursue even the smallest of drug cases.
4) The police make little to no effort to weed out the irresponsible officers, and in many cases actively pursue programs to recruit them. They defend these known disruptors to the ends of the earth and will do anything rather than admit fault. They no longer attempt to be members of their communities, just the biggest bullies in the community.
5) The media and body politic never make a story out of the DMV doing their jobs, or the garbage men doing their jobs or a hell of a lot of people DOING WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEM!!!! Why should the public have to stroke LEO's egos for obeying the damn law and their own procedures???
A reputation is not proof. There are more than a few "great" men who've gotten by on their reputation for past deeds while they talk impressionable young devotees into doing the bulk of the actual work for them, which they then take credit for.
Or perhaps, just perhaps, men have an unconscious (and sometimes not so unconscious) bias to be offended by assertive women.