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  1. Re:Plead the 27th on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I don't know the process for a private citizen forcing the Justice Department to enforce a law that the Justice Department and the president aren't already enforcing.

  2. Re:I am planning to move to NC on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Occupiers don't go around waving poop, so there's no reason to call them "Occupoopers". Sure you don't call yourselves "Teabaggers". But you go around wearing and waving tea bags. Then you complain when people refer to you as Teabaggers.

    You're a real Teabagger: you're blaming Occupiers for calling you Teabaggers, but people have been calling you that for years before there were any Occupiers, and you don't even have an example of Occupiers calling you that to complain about.

    "Teabaggers" isn't to save some syllables. It's to make fun of people who not only have some stupid ideas, like voting in more Republicans to protect the people from government, but look stupid draped in tea bags.

    Calling you Teabaggers does indeed make us feel better about our lives, by drawing attention to how ridiculous you are. In terms that come right from what you do. If that makes you feel worse about your life, you might not want to symbolize your life with a teabag that makes it easy to call you a Teabagger.

    And you might not want to introduce some strawman about the Constitution when it has nothing to do with what we're talking about. That's the kind of stupid stunt that invites calling you a Teabagger.

  3. Re:Only way to stop this crap. on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    You got it! Please post your contact info so we can get you started.

    Homeland Security will be contacting you immediately with your startup kit.

  4. Re:Sounds like a great idea... on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Foreign workers unfairly compete with American workers by the foreign subsidies in the form of cheap polluted and overworked workplaces.

    Though their socialized medicine and education should be competed with by having our own here, since that way is proven to make a more productive workforce at lower cost (including longerm, unlike from pollution and labor exploitation) than the privatized alternative we have here.

  5. More Jobs Instead of Overtime on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Congress shouldn't prohibit overtime pay private employers decide to pay.

    But private employers shouldn't pay overtime except in rare crisis situations. They should hire more people to handle the extra work if they've got it regularly. Even if those extra people are part time. They choose overtime instead because they don't have to pay the overhead beyond direct pay of the extra worker, even though overtime costs more per hour. It doesn't take long for overtime, which is typically +50% (or +100%+ if past 10-12+ hours a day or on weekends/holidays), to cost more than the 10-25-50% typical overhead for the extra worker. Plus having more workers means more flexibility. Having that much extra work should mean the business is making more money.

    The workers make the money for the business by doing the work, though they're brought the opportunity by the business (and the whole affair is due to paying customers). If you have enough work for more workers, you should get them and use them to get more work, which means more money for everyone.

  6. Re:why does congress hate free markets? on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every elected official should be paid exactly the median income of their constituents. Then to get more pay they have to raise their constituents' incomes first.

    Plus any elected official should be paid to retire instead of running for reelection. Whatever they'd be paid for the term if they won, like 2 years for a House rep or 4 years for a governor, they'd get paid all at once to retire instead.

  7. Re:Plead the 27th on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean the ammo box is the next box. You gun fetishists had your chance 10 years ago, but you never did anything. Now even with your arsenals you're easily outgunned by the military, police and national guard, who have been trained since then in fighting urban, suburban and rural militias. Lately the police have been out clubbing your fellow citizens, and will only increase the firepower to "mass lethal" when the "problem people" start fighting back.

    You didn't use the soap box, the jury box or the ballot box to do anything but keep your fetish objects close. In fact you used all of them to give power to the people who have run the country into the ground.

    You're never going to use your guns to fight the government. All your actions have proven otherwise, every time.

  8. Re:Plead the 27th on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Has the Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Justice cannot bring a suit, plaintiff the United States, to enforce the 27th Amendment against a pay raise?

  9. Re:I am planning to move to NC on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 0

    Most people who resort constantly to calling an entire group by their name have the issue of speaking clearly. "Teabaggers" to refer to Tea Party associates, who branded themselves by wearing tea bags and waving them around in public, on TV, is a pretty clear way of talking about them.

    Of course, you'd also complain if they referred to these people as "mad as a Hatter", out of Lewis Carroll's familiar Tea Party. Because you're a Teabagger.

  10. Re:AT&T Protects Us from Monopolies on AT&T Issues Scathing Response To FCC Report · · Score: 1

    If Verizon tries to buy T-Mobile, of course I will complain about them. Of course AT&T's removing a competitor also gives Verizon one less competitor, but we're not talking about an actual action by Verizon.

    The question that you raise is why are you insisting on diluting the complaints about AT&T buying T-Mobile with a useless attack on Verizon that is just general whining, not part of an actual effort by the FCC to protect us from increased monopolization? What does whining about Verizon do to push back this counterattack by AT&T?

  11. Re:problem is spectrum on AT&T Issues Scathing Response To FCC Report · · Score: 1

    Right, the whole American mobile market should have fewer choices because rural Alaska's indoor coverage is more important than the whole country's major cities.

    I know who you voted for governor last time.

  12. AT&T Protects Us from Monopolies on AT&T Issues Scathing Response To FCC Report · · Score: 1

    Surely AT&T wants to acquire T-Mobile so that consumers can have more choices, and AT&T has a harder time charging whatever profit it wants because there's more competition.

  13. Re:SQLite Logging on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    That would do the job. Thanks.

  14. Re:SQLite Logging on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the insightful voice of experience :).

  15. Re:SQLite Logging on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    I don't see why at 5K+ hosts being logged I need more than the rsyslogd at each to a target MySQL backend, where I have triggers against alarm conditions and alert address URLs, with readonly replication to a live backup for redundancy. That seems a completely manageable scale.

    These commercial log analyzer apps seem to be useful for complex reporting, where their reports already implement what I'd have to implement in my DB queries and report formatting. But even there it seems likely that an existing package of MySQL report generators is what I'd want. Maybe not, but what I'm looking for here is simply pattern alarm/alert features, not real analysis. At the point where load scale is too large for MySQL, Postgres, Oracle etc is probably the way to handle the load, and possibly direct to those for any complexity in the distributed architecture.

  16. Re:SQLite Logging on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    All I want is realtime alarms sent when a log entry matches a pattern. Do I really need to buy a commercial log analysis tool, that does more than that? It seems to me it's more likely a free Perl module used in a simple script tha scans a logfile and emails to addresses from a config file matching condition tags. Or the DB rsyslog backends with a trigger that emails to addresses from a condition/address table. And instead of email, hitting an HTTP URL for some other mode of notification.

  17. Re:Boneheaded Movies on Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012 · · Score: 1

    That looks cool. Except Netflix sucks so bad that using it on my Google TV to play a movie takes me to a page that says only Windows, Mac and ChromeOS are allowed to play movies. Even though I use the Google TV Netflix app (which sucks) to watch movies all the time.

  18. Re:SQLite Logging on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    Does syslog or syslog-ng include a trigger pattern feature, where you set some rule against the syslog data (including across multiple entries) that then sets some other (alarm) state, which can send messages (email, wall, arbitrary executable)?

  19. Re:It was actually $467 for the Android version on OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if you don't even try to change it, you exercise your 1st Amendment right to look like a fool.

  20. Re:Harvard's History Courses on Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses · · Score: 2

    That does sound good.

    But I'm not talking about the quality of the lecturer, though Harvard has that, too. I'm talking about the different facts they teach the ruling class as they come of age.

    I know Harvard grads, and I know they learned a different history that is taught elsewhere. Even outside the Skull and Bones colloquia (and I know S&B members, too, and I'm not kidding).

  21. Re:SQLite Logging on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    Nice!

  22. Re:with regret... on Anne McCaffrey Passes Away At 85 · · Score: 1

    No, you just said you don't care, in response to my post which said that we do care about reading the insults.

    You're an autard. Get used to people with feelings telling you you're wrong for not understanding them.

  23. Re:Avoiding the core issues on OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k · · Score: 1

    No. Government workers have lost their job at a far higher rate than private workers for years. Government workers compete for promotions just as private workers do. Government workers also know that their job is for the benefit of their country, which is more likely to motivate them than the good of the corporation motivates private workers. Meanwhile private workers are even more likely to be contractors working for both their contracting company and the client company.

    You are speaking entirely from ideology. Any actual reference to reality would pop your entire bubble. The great tragedy is that the less constrained by reality, the more people like you go on and on as if you know what could work in reality.

  24. Re:How much of the waste was due to waste preventi on OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k · · Score: 2

    You mean like the paper reduction programmes at work that are promoted on printed paper documents?.

    The government is no more wasteful than private businesses. The government's excesses are just a lot more visible, and Americans have been trained to hate government while fetishizing business.

  25. Re:Drop in the bucket... on OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k · · Score: 0

    Every single iPhone app is a better replacement than all the soldiers we sent to Iraq, who merely wasted a $TRILLION, not to mention all the deaths and maimings on all sides, and the years of lost productivity we could have had instead, and the peace itself, and the unrecoverable loss of America's reputation...