when do IBM get the right to tell employers that they can't leave?
When employees breach their contract. It's that simple.
NOT when they can be got cheaper in another country.
Companies are incorporated at the sponsorship of host nations, by the provision of special rights. They thrive off the conditions within host nations, such as an educated workforce, plentiful supply of customers and favourable tax regimens.
To the host nation's benefit, they are expected to provide employment to nationals and pay taxes. If business needs dictate they no longer need to employ workers, they can make them redundant.
In my opinion, getting workers cheaper in another nation is NOT a good enough reason to make people redundant. The negative impact on the host nation is too great.
In such cases, there should perhaps be scope for employees to take limited pay cuts. But fundamentally, shareholder value has to be weighed against the cost to the nation of supporting unemployed people, and the stress this causes to the individuals involved.
Do you expect them to pay more for the same work just to get people with the "right" nationality or ethnicity?
This has nothing to do with ethnicity. It has lots to do with nationality. The fact that I belong to a nation implies that I and my co-nationals work to improve the entire nation's lot within the world, at the expense of other nations. Sorry, but it's true. Wealth is a limited resource and those who benefit from a nation's existence should be paying back into it. How else can America be described as the worlds most powerful nation? If it doesn't operate as a whole, then it's not a powerful nation at all, it's just a host to powerful individuals and groups, a.k.a. parasites.
There is no getting away from the fact that this is a class issue. The shareholders just want higher profits. The workers, meanwhile, have given the best of themselves to a company, expecting, naively but righteously, some loyalty in return.
If this is a clear out of dead wood then I salute it because no-one has a right to get by without pulling their weight; but if this is just plain old cost cutting then IBM deserves to suffer as a result, and I expect they will.
You may restrict what an anonymous user accesses with whitelists, but without allowing unrestricted posting capability you have removed most of the benefit of an anonymous network.
Also, restricting the Chinese to viewing the BBC and Google(? how does that work then? They can search but not link? ) is still censorship. Who makes the whitelist, and by which criteria?
If it's down to the server operator, they become government enforcement agenies by virtue of their local laws.
That's not true, you know. Sometimes people work for companies because of lack of motivation, sometimes lack of capital, sometimes fear, sometimes a combination of these things.
And maybe there are some people who actually LIKE working for companies. Maybe they like the relative security, the human contact, the culture, the well-defined role and responsibility.
The world needs more and better entrepreneurs but lets be serious, not everyone can be, or should be, an entrepreneur.
Paraphrasing: Me: What would an ordinary person, even a geek, need more than 30Gb a month for
You: To backup large quantities of data from my colo servers
Me: But why would an ordinary person, even a geek, need to do that? And if you're not an ordinary person then you can probably afford something else.
You: I just do, I'm not telling you why, and you're a moron.
Where did you answer my question? I actually couldn't give a fuck what the answer is, but I do want you to admit you didn't answer the question, because you are hiding your oddball requirements. As it is my guess is you run a business, and your pbp.net url bears that out.
Excuse me while I find the part of my post that says "T1 is about the same price as cable modem"...
...
No I can't find it.
So fuck if T1 is 5 times the price of cable. If you can afford colocated servers (plural) for personal use, then you can either afford a T1 or you can buy a tape drive.
Seriously, what's wrong with a 30gb cap? I mean, how much time do you spend downloading stuff instead of doing stuff?
I could imagine myself wanting a full set of Debian ISO images now and again. That might take 10Gb of my cap. But why I'd want to do that more than once a month at most I have no idea.
The only scenario I can think of where 30Gb a month might be low is if your downloading a new film (I nearly wrote "movie") every day or two. If you have the time on your hands to watch that much video, then you presumably have the money to afford a leased line.
But in seriousness, I would like to hear what use a private individual - even a geek - would currently have for downloading 30Gb a month.
None of this should be taken to mean that I think broadband shouldn't be faster, cheaper and with fewer limits. I just can't see why you would say 30Gb is "pant".
If you have simple logging needs, log via syslog and leave the details to the site.
For more complex needs, especially if you have several logs,/var/log/appname/* is good.
Obviously, the logs should be a text file. You ask if special tools should be provided. For text files we already have grep, sed, awk, perl.
The exception is if you are providing some kind of administrative GUI, say a web app. Logs that relate to specific functionality should be near the controls for that functionality. By using a GUI you are saying "I don't want to get my hands dirty" which, for time-pressed admins, is a perfectly legitimate approach for apps with complicated configuration architectures (Sendmail, WebShere 5). So the GUI should take away the complexity of having to know where the logs are. It should always be possible, though, to get at the text of the logs and run standard tools against them.
Just curious, if everyone else's DNS cache entry for google had expired, then why hadn't yours? If you could nslookup the IP, why couldn't your browser resolve it?
The crosshair bit on the puck is the same but I don't remember all the colored "buttons" on the tablet, or the "ribs" on the puck. But my memory is not what it used to be...
I used to have a PERQ II. They were made by ICL. It was a washing machine sized brown box; it was heavier than a washing machine though. The screen was a remarkably clear black & white portrait job. It ran Unix/X and it came with a copy of the Bell Labs manuals. I believe it came from a local university via a couple of friends.
The "mouse" was a "puck" - no ball it was used with a tablet (like a Wacom). The puck had a bit of transparent plastic at the top with cross-hairs - I presume so you could trace out a drawing. IIRC the buttons were different colours.
This was my first exposure to Unix and I loved it. My biggest regret, other than falling in love with the wrong woman, was taking this to the dump six years ago because I had no room for it. Now I have lots of room:-(
I would think the problem with them is that they use the readers' ignorance of the meanings of the words "fact" and "theory" to give them reason to doubt the validity of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
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when do IBM get the right to tell employers that they can't leave?
When employees breach their contract. It's that simple.
NOT when they can be got cheaper in another country.
Companies are incorporated at the sponsorship of host nations, by the provision of special rights. They thrive off the conditions within host nations, such as an educated workforce, plentiful supply of customers and favourable tax regimens.
To the host nation's benefit, they are expected to provide employment to nationals and pay taxes. If business needs dictate they no longer need to employ workers, they can make them redundant.
In my opinion, getting workers cheaper in another nation is NOT a good enough reason to make people redundant. The negative impact on the host nation is too great.
In such cases, there should perhaps be scope for employees to take limited pay cuts. But fundamentally, shareholder value has to be weighed against the cost to the nation of supporting unemployed people, and the stress this causes to the individuals involved.
Do you expect them to pay more for the same work just to get people with the "right" nationality or ethnicity?
This has nothing to do with ethnicity. It has lots to do with nationality. The fact that I belong to a nation implies that I and my co-nationals work to improve the entire nation's lot within the world, at the expense of other nations. Sorry, but it's true. Wealth is a limited resource and those who benefit from a nation's existence should be paying back into it. How else can America be described as the worlds most powerful nation? If it doesn't operate as a whole, then it's not a powerful nation at all, it's just a host to powerful individuals and groups, a.k.a. parasites.
There is no getting away from the fact that this is a class issue. The shareholders just want higher profits. The workers, meanwhile, have given the best of themselves to a company, expecting, naively but righteously, some loyalty in return.
If this is a clear out of dead wood then I salute it because no-one has a right to get by without pulling their weight; but if this is just plain old cost cutting then IBM deserves to suffer as a result, and I expect they will.
Congratulations, I hope you had a good time but not too good a time...
Him. Not you. He completely missed your point even while quoting it.
Although you've got to admit your point was invalid.
Anyway I'm not yelling, just scowling.
If I could make sense from your incoherent post I would provide a cogent argument against it.
The poster said "room temperature to 100 degrees C,", which comfortably straddles your 50C-80C range.
I could write you off as a normal idiot, but you actually fucking quoted that in your reply.
You may restrict what an anonymous user accesses with whitelists, but without allowing unrestricted posting capability you have removed most of the benefit of an anonymous network.
Also, restricting the Chinese to viewing the BBC and Google(? how does that work then? They can search but not link? ) is still censorship. Who makes the whitelist, and by which criteria?
If it's down to the server operator, they become government enforcement agenies by virtue of their local laws.
So do you agree with the gp or not? Your first sentence says you don't, the rest says you do.
That's not true, you know. Sometimes people work for companies because of lack of motivation, sometimes lack of capital, sometimes fear, sometimes a combination of these things.
And maybe there are some people who actually LIKE working for companies. Maybe they like the relative security, the human contact, the culture, the well-defined role and responsibility.
The world needs more and better entrepreneurs but lets be serious, not everyone can be, or should be, an entrepreneur.
What about us? Or is there a subtle humour in your post I have missed?
Me: What would an ordinary person, even a geek, need more than 30Gb a month for
You: To backup large quantities of data from my colo servers
Me: But why would an ordinary person, even a geek, need to do that? And if you're not an ordinary person then you can probably afford something else.
You: I just do, I'm not telling you why, and you're a moron.
Where did you answer my question? I actually couldn't give a fuck what the answer is, but I do want you to admit you didn't answer the question, because you are hiding your oddball requirements. As it is my guess is you run a business, and your pbp.net url bears that out.
FFS.
My original question was: what would you be doing that required > 30Gb a month.
So of course I have no idea what you are doing!! Otherwise I wouldn't ask!!
Un-fucking-believable.
No I can't find it.
So fuck if T1 is 5 times the price of cable. If you can afford colocated servers (plural) for personal use, then you can either afford a T1 or you can buy a tape drive.
I should have said "what legitimate use", sorry. I like the other reply about your hairy palms, too.
Or maybe your post was satire. It would certainly serve as such!
In your capacity as a private individual you have the funds for colocated servers => you can afford a leased line.
Goodness me, Playboy is better than I remember it. Just for a second, those pics made me want to go and work out. Then the feeling passed. Mmmm food.
Seriously, what's wrong with a 30gb cap? I mean, how much time do you spend downloading stuff instead of doing stuff?
I could imagine myself wanting a full set of Debian ISO images now and again. That might take 10Gb of my cap. But why I'd want to do that more than once a month at most I have no idea.
The only scenario I can think of where 30Gb a month might be low is if your downloading a new film (I nearly wrote "movie") every day or two. If you have the time on your hands to watch that much video, then you presumably have the money to afford a leased line.
But in seriousness, I would like to hear what use a private individual - even a geek - would currently have for downloading 30Gb a month.
None of this should be taken to mean that I think broadband shouldn't be faster, cheaper and with fewer limits. I just can't see why you would say 30Gb is "pant".
as I once said to a colleague. /var/log
/var/log/appname/* is good.
If you have simple logging needs, log via syslog and leave the details to the site.
For more complex needs, especially if you have several logs,
Obviously, the logs should be a text file. You ask if special tools should be provided. For text files we already have grep, sed, awk, perl.
The exception is if you are providing some kind of administrative GUI, say a web app. Logs that relate to specific functionality should be near the controls for that functionality. By using a GUI you are saying "I don't want to get my hands dirty" which, for time-pressed admins, is a perfectly legitimate approach for apps with complicated configuration architectures (Sendmail, WebShere 5). So the GUI should take away the complexity of having to know where the logs are. It should always be possible, though, to get at the text of the logs and run standard tools against them.
MHO.
Ah, OK, haven't seen it. I take it all back.
...and a highly intelligent brain capable of process thought... ...
--
"PC load letter...What the fuck does that mean?"
Hmm.
Googlelism
This makes me very uncomfortable. Try "Googlism".
cf absolute -> absolutism, not absolute -> absolutelism.
Just curious, if everyone else's DNS cache entry for google had expired, then why hadn't yours? If you could nslookup the IP, why couldn't your browser resolve it?
The crosshair bit on the puck is the same but I don't remember all the colored "buttons" on the tablet, or the "ribs" on the puck. But my memory is not what it used to be...
I used to have a PERQ II. They were made by ICL. It was a washing machine sized brown box; it was heavier than a washing machine though. The screen was a remarkably clear black & white portrait job. It ran Unix/X and it came with a copy of the Bell Labs manuals. I believe it came from a local university via a couple of friends.
:-(
The "mouse" was a "puck" - no ball it was used with a tablet (like a Wacom). The puck had a bit of transparent plastic at the top with cross-hairs - I presume so you could trace out a drawing. IIRC the buttons were different colours.
This was my first exposure to Unix and I loved it. My biggest regret, other than falling in love with the wrong woman, was taking this to the dump six years ago because I had no room for it. Now I have lots of room
Is the first of these stickers the one you have in mind?
I would think the problem with them is that they use the readers' ignorance of the meanings of the words "fact" and "theory" to give them reason to doubt the validity of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Read the other stickers.