Ya see, "fast" isn't important. It's taken 43 years since Gagarin, to do only what Shepherd did but do it for a tiny fraction of the cost and no waste. That's not fast at all. This re-demonstrates the fact that politicians, since they're not spending their own money, don't take the "long view". They go for quick fixes and damn the repercussions.
Your absolutly right, privitization is the way to go, and privitization will bring the costs down and make it profitable.
By faster I mean get the X-prize first. All I'm saying, is if I had the money to finance a rocket and two engineers came up to me, one with a new fangled single stage rocket, and another with plans to improve a slightly improved Saturn rocket, I'm going with the Saturn rocket plan. Now once I got the X-Prize, I'm hiring the other engineer to run my R&D.
It will happen. It may be Armadillo Aerospace, it may be Scaled Composites, it may be someone none of us have heard of yet, but someone will do it and private people who care about their investment won't do it by throwing 99% of their property away.
Eventually it will happen in a manner that does not throw away 99% of the craft. However, throwing away 99% of the craft is how we've been getting into space for a while. Remember the universal law, Good chepa fast, pick two. Well the X-Prize has a 10 million dollar reward, and plenty of its contestant aren't doing it for the money.
Also, their throwing away 99% of the craft, and then picking it up again. A better way will be found, but seperating rockets are the big block carboreator fed technology of space travel. Sure their are smarter ways of doing it, but sometimes a sledge hammer tool for the job.
I think after that, nearly every Joe 6-pack finally realized that the thing in his "Start Menu" called "Windows Update" was something to use often.
I have a friend thats an economics major. Very intelligent. In terms of calculas knowledge he probally knows more than anyone here without a master in CS. or a BA in pure math.
I had to tell him how to hook up his speakers to his computer. He had a simple 3 speaker system. He never owned a non USB keyboard so when he saw the PS/2 looking connector that was supposed to connet his right speaker to his subwoofer he paniced and IMed me.
Its not a matter of creating an idiot proof system. The users aren't idiots, they just don't get it.
I remember Redhat 7.0 It came with gcc 3.0 and the out of the box full install was incapable of recompiling the very kernel sources that came with it. I refused to use redhat, decreed it had sinned against me and excommunicated it from me.
Then fedora came. I took a copy of the CDs at linux world after talking to one of the peopel there and forgave the company. Mind you I don't think Bob Young would care about my excommunication enough to stand barefoot in the snow outside my window for a few days, I was pissed at redhat.
Anyway, I never got around to installing Fedora, but its on my todo list. Redhat seems to be making money selling services and presumeably doing whatever they do that requires the newer features of C++ that GCC 3 had that caused them to ship a compiler that would not compiloe their kernel.
However, they started to forget about the little guy. Being the distro of the geeks means that you have free developers, word of mouth marketing etc. Luckily, they did this fedora thing to try to correct that.
So, Microsoft went with standards for their routable protocol, Novell didn't, and now lots of Linux boxes are running a "LanMan" clone.
I would not call it a LanMan clone. Putting aside what role NetBios, NetBEUI, LanMan, SMB, CIFS and whatever other acronyms involved play in the proccess of me accessing my home directory on my FreeBSD box from my windows 2000 server, Samba was originally built to allow the author to access a DEC server from his Unix (I believe slowlaris) box.
Welcome to the real world you snot nosed know it all. In all seriousness, keep that know it all attitude up, just don't break anything and it will take you places. Just remember one thing. Sometimes its better to ask forgiveness than permission, but know when that is.
The important thing is to keep learning. Their are people in this field that have decided to stop learning. If their in a niche like Cobol programmer, mainframe/midrange operator, or now VB6 programmer, they survive. However even people that specialiaze in those areas of "legacy support" have plenty to learn. New fangled stuff keeps creeping its way into older stuff, you can run Java and apache on an AS/400 these days, and thats without installing linux on it.
Although I haven't really fixed computers in exchange for money, most people that I know recognize me for my ability to fix computers, even though I don't have any certifications.
Word of warning, the hot chicks will never ask you to fix their computer. They will bitch about it to their rich boyfriend who will buy them a new Dell. They might ask you to fix it in college, but your not getting any ass in return for it. You probally will be recripocated well in non monetary ways for fixing other peoples computer, but don't expect any nookie.
One last peice of advice, do do the programming homework of the hot chicks, Its good practice to do the Comp Sci assignments 4 different ways. Plus, you'll learn which teachers use diff and which don't.
Uh I think the Neanderthan that posted the grandparent was trying to say that only people that come here illegially will do those jobs. If their here illegally they have to work here illegally. Now as someone else said, teenagers used to work those jobs and got their foot in the door. They still live off their parents and use their income purely for non essential purposes.
Mozilla is built on various libraries and technologies. The "lead singer" of this all is gecko. That is the html renderer. Their are other components, the javascript engine, the DOM model, XSLT, plugins, a network library, etc.
Anyway, Mozilla is like a band. Bordering on an orchestra. However, like any band it gets type casted. So the programmers rearrranged the musicians and created side project bands. Thunderbird and FireFox. Its kind of like how the Wilson sisters have a side project band. Basically if they book a show as said side project, its their way of saying, don't expect us to play Baracudda or Dog and Butterfly.
Back out of metaphor land. All these programs exist in te same source tree. They have intereleated dependencies. The way its setup now is code freezes of core APIs are cordinated so that in theory changes to Gecko and the like don't break any of the applications, except at agreed upon times if their changing the api.
Is that any different from having a favorite athlete? What sports are hard? Require lots of training and talent? Rooting for a programmer doesn't affect his output?
Hrm, increased spending, expanding social security, compassionate conservatism. While The man is a moral conservative, he's got quite the libreal spending streak.
Yes in the grand scheme of things he's quite conservative. However, you want to talk true blue conservative, use an example like McCain or Regan.
Huh? Those calls are pretty much a one-to-one mapping to opendir, readdir, stat, etc. which you'd have to use on POSIX.
I wound hardly call FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() one to one mappings of whats in dirent.h. The memory allocation functions are one to one mappings minus the multiple memory pool support. And while in many cases their is a 1 to 1 mapping of functions, Microsofts handling of strings through calling the function with a 0 byte array is non posix like.
Firefox is Mozilla without the email client, right? It can accept the same modules/plugins and everything, right? Or am I way off?
Firefox is based on mozilla code. They created a stand alone browser that was better, smaller, faster than the mozilla one. They also want to redo the concept of mozilla proper where all the components can either be stand alone application or extensions to FireFox. Chec out the roadmap for a better explanation.
No I failed those english classes because I never handed in a paper. I found that if I slow down my typing just a we bit (like I'm doing now), my typos are reduced 95%. I could proofread, but I can barely stand having auto spell check turned on on my email at work. However, my boss kept complaining about my spelling.
Now apperances are important as I've learned, much to my dismay. However, this is a fucking anonymous forum, and Iwill communicate in the manner I wish to. That includes using obsenities, the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers like myself.
My advice to Michael is to get a job, some back-busting, physicaly hard labor for very little pay, and stick with it for at least a year. What to do with his life will come to him pretty quickly.
That would only work if said know it all American were an elitists that thought himself better than his coworkers at said shit paying, back breaking job. Its not that hard to find a nice cushy low paying job that requiresd no skills. Most of the lazy people I know work those kinds of jobs. Their not much different thatn the high paying cushy low work jobs, other than they pay less.
I failed out of college due to laziness, I make about 35% of what I shoudld make. You know why I want to go back to college, becasue I realized alot of the computer books on my to read list are text books from courses I never made it to. Thats my big motivator. Sure I think about going to college for more money, but I also think I should join the gym. Then I remember that I never liked sports much.
In general, seems like computer systems are extremely inbred. This from about 30-40 years ago and it can have only gotten more so. Seems like some cross-breeding is desirable, maybe even essential to long-term survival.
Well it looks like all the growth is occuring in innovation causing mutations. I never touch true big iron, but after operating an AS/400 for a while, it seems like their borrowing from our Unix/Windows ideas more than we are borrowing from them. Their are alot of new OSes, and some stuff does find its way into the "mainstream ones," but other than BEOS, what new OS had a shot of making it past few years. The embedded areana is a place for new OSes, but how long befor eWindows and linux conquor that. Remember when NetBSD was the OS to run on "eccentric" hard ware. Now its debian.
"The hybrid source model negatively impacts the intellectual property model for all software, and inevitably the entire IT economy."
The same way potable water from the city mains impacts the viability of bottled water. Seems like RedHat isn't doing too badly while the exact same software is available from White-Box? and some others. My understanding is that Linux itself is GPL, hardly fitting any reasonable definition of "hybrid source model". I would imagine that installations use some mixture of BSD, GPL and proprietary software. Solaris with GNU utilities is "hybrid source model"?
Uh ok, I think Kenn means the GPL when he refers to hybrid software. Perhaps I misunderstood the article, but he seems to attack the "viral" nature of the GPL and labels that has hybrid software. Now, personally I would consider that purebred software. Auctualyl I would consider somethign like Qmail purebred software.
It does not compile them in the slightest.
What is an interperter, but a compiler that combines the compile and run aspects eliminating the stored machine code?
I'm sure you would love to live in a Randian dreamworld, but the reality is much like the worker's paradise that Rand fled.
Ok time for this conservative to sing the praises of liberals long dead.
I did a quick google and although I've yet to find a primary source for this Randian philisophy, it seems to be of the anarchist/libertarian variety. I'll do some research on this matter, but let me say I'm not a pure libertarian, I do accept the neccesary evil of government. I'll do a little more research and counter that argument later.
Now deep down inside, people are good and helpful, as long as it isn't to inconvient. Luckily, people have this inate sense to accomplish things, that leads some of us to see the bigger picture and seek the warm fuzzy feeling of doing the greater good, inventing something, drinking imported beer, and landing on the moon.
You can with varying degrees of success force people to do certain things.
However, you cannot force people to change teir ideas. It is much easier to get people to change their ideas through debate, education, and allowing them to practice free will. You force people to do something and they comply at a minimum. If you show people a better way, you might auctually alter their ideas. Thats is the advantage of Free Market. Sure, there are abuses, that is where you minimal government comes in. To sit their and make sure no one loses and eye. I'm not saying never look to government to solve problems, just make it the last resort.
If the above rant does soind Randian, then maybe I am Randian.
More like recovery from surgery.
Recovery from elective surgery. Granted if your insurance pays for missed time of work due to surgery, pregnancy should be recovered. I have a friend that had a breast reduction, elective surgery, but the insurance companies paid for it on the basic it would be cheapr then paying for the back problems it would prevent.
Its definatly benificial to society that people can continue to have children, but someone does have to pay for it. The cost of paid maternity has to come from somewhere. Some sort of setup like unemployment insurance where employeer and employee both put money into a pool every month is probally a good setup here.
More like young and naive. If you gave notice, who'd pay the dentist - oh wait, dentists aren't usually covered anyway. It sounds like you've never had to deal with being out of work for a long period, or pay for medical care in said jobless period.
I never said that it wouldn't be a problem for me. Something like AFLAC where I voluntary take out an insurance policy that covers lost income due to work would be a good idea. However, its my responsibility to make that happen. Just like its my responsibility to go out and leann a skill useful to mankind so I can get a job and put food on my table. It would be an attractive benefit for an employer to provide such supplemental insurance as a group plan, but its not required of them.
Emails containing viruses are replaced by a text message warning that a virus was sent to the email address.
Yeah thats the vast majority of the contents my Road Runner inbox.
Spoken like someone who should have his dick cut off, because he obviously doesn't deserve it and couldn't handle the responsibility of being a father.
Perhaps the grandparent post does come off a little harsh. Let me attempt to reply to this.
Pregnancy is expensive medically. As a right wing religious nut pro lifer, my response to fellow pro-lifers attacking the AMA's classification of pregnancy as a disease is,it is a God damn fucking disease!!!. A beautiful wonder miraclous disease that lets you take part in Gods miracle of creation, but still a fucking disease.
Naturally, healthcare providers have reason to take into account that pregnancy is preventable. However, continuation of the species, and the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness has to balance all this.
With regard to maternity leave, it is basically paid vacation. Vacation is expensive for an employeer. From the employees side, it is a great help in the balance between work and family.
Now, basically prenatal care and maternity leave are expensive. Covering prenatal care via health insurance partially paid by work would be non discriminatory. Being most jobs have a family healthcare option, it is equally expensive to insure a married man or a married woman. Civil unions and common marriages are a topic for another debate. So, yes if ladies want pregnancy paid for, its gonna cost someone else, but in this case the burden falls equally on employeers of mothers and fathers.
Paid maternity leave costs the same as equal time paid vacation. Unpaid maternity leave is inconvient on the employeer. I work technical support. Being there are times I am the only tech on duty, it would be hard for me to do my job if my dentist told me he had to break my jaw and wire it shut for 6 weeks. In my particular situation, it would be easier for my employeer to give me a leave of absense, not have me work day shift on non call releated issues. However, if my dentist said 6 months, it really might be alot easier if I gave notice. It would inconvience me, but an employeers only responsibility is to make payroll as long as you show p to work and do the agreed job.
Some people would say my employeer should be required to take me back, I don't. Perhaps its cause I'm young, single, and stupid. I would like to think otherwise.
After all, it's not the judiciary (in the US, anyway) who gets to decide whether or not IP is good or bad.
Ever hear of legislating from the bench. Also theirs a saying that the constitution says whatever the supreme court says it does. Granted this is Canada, but I would assume they have similar balance of power conecpts and abuses as we do in the US. Of course no one can fuck up a country like us
As to the world being contaminated by the seeds of a giant evil corporation, IM zippy1981@jabber.org the details of when and where to meet to dress up like Injuns and throw some crops in the sea.
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Ya see, "fast" isn't important. It's taken 43 years since Gagarin, to do only what Shepherd did but do it for a tiny fraction of the cost and no waste. That's not fast at all. This re-demonstrates the fact that politicians, since they're not spending their own money, don't take the "long view". They go for quick fixes and damn the repercussions.
Your absolutly right, privitization is the way to go, and privitization will bring the costs down and make it profitable.
By faster I mean get the X-prize first. All I'm saying, is if I had the money to finance a rocket and two engineers came up to me, one with a new fangled single stage rocket, and another with plans to improve a slightly improved Saturn rocket, I'm going with the Saturn rocket plan. Now once I got the X-Prize, I'm hiring the other engineer to run my R&D.
It will happen. It may be Armadillo Aerospace, it may be Scaled Composites, it may be someone none of us have heard of yet, but someone will do it and private people who care about their investment won't do it by throwing 99% of their property away.
Eventually it will happen in a manner that does not throw away 99% of the craft. However, throwing away 99% of the craft is how we've been getting into space for a while. Remember the universal law, Good chepa fast, pick two. Well the X-Prize has a 10 million dollar reward, and plenty of its contestant aren't doing it for the money.
Also, their throwing away 99% of the craft, and then picking it up again. A better way will be found, but seperating rockets are the big block carboreator fed technology of space travel. Sure their are smarter ways of doing it, but sometimes a sledge hammer tool for the job.
I think after that, nearly every Joe 6-pack finally realized that the thing in his "Start Menu" called "Windows Update" was something to use often. I have a friend thats an economics major. Very intelligent. In terms of calculas knowledge he probally knows more than anyone here without a master in CS. or a BA in pure math.
I had to tell him how to hook up his speakers to his computer. He had a simple 3 speaker system. He never owned a non USB keyboard so when he saw the PS/2 looking connector that was supposed to connet his right speaker to his subwoofer he paniced and IMed me.
Its not a matter of creating an idiot proof system. The users aren't idiots, they just don't get it.
I've found the loophole in democracy. It's stupid people. Vast masses of stupid people.
The masses are asses. [Samuel Adams]
I remember Redhat 7.0 It came with gcc 3.0 and the out of the box full install was incapable of recompiling the very kernel sources that came with it. I refused to use redhat, decreed it had sinned against me and excommunicated it from me.
Then fedora came. I took a copy of the CDs at linux world after talking to one of the peopel there and forgave the company. Mind you I don't think Bob Young would care about my excommunication enough to stand barefoot in the snow outside my window for a few days, I was pissed at redhat.
Anyway, I never got around to installing Fedora, but its on my todo list. Redhat seems to be making money selling services and presumeably doing whatever they do that requires the newer features of C++ that GCC 3 had that caused them to ship a compiler that would not compiloe their kernel.
However, they started to forget about the little guy. Being the distro of the geeks means that you have free developers, word of mouth marketing etc. Luckily, they did this fedora thing to try to correct that.
So, Microsoft went with standards for their routable protocol, Novell didn't, and now lots of Linux boxes are running a "LanMan" clone.
I would not call it a LanMan clone. Putting aside what role NetBios, NetBEUI, LanMan, SMB, CIFS and whatever other acronyms involved play in the proccess of me accessing my home directory on my FreeBSD box from my windows 2000 server, Samba was originally built to allow the author to access a DEC server from his Unix (I believe slowlaris) box.
Welcome to the real world you snot nosed know it all. In all seriousness, keep that know it all attitude up, just don't break anything and it will take you places. Just remember one thing. Sometimes its better to ask forgiveness than permission, but know when that is.
The important thing is to keep learning. Their are people in this field that have decided to stop learning. If their in a niche like Cobol programmer, mainframe/midrange operator, or now VB6 programmer, they survive. However even people that specialiaze in those areas of "legacy support" have plenty to learn. New fangled stuff keeps creeping its way into older stuff, you can run Java and apache on an AS/400 these days, and thats without installing linux on it.
Although I haven't really fixed computers in exchange for money, most people that I know recognize me for my ability to fix computers, even though I don't have any certifications. Word of warning, the hot chicks will never ask you to fix their computer. They will bitch about it to their rich boyfriend who will buy them a new Dell. They might ask you to fix it in college, but your not getting any ass in return for it. You probally will be recripocated well in non monetary ways for fixing other peoples computer, but don't expect any nookie.
One last peice of advice, do do the programming homework of the hot chicks, Its good practice to do the Comp Sci assignments 4 different ways. Plus, you'll learn which teachers use diff and which don't.
Uh I think the Neanderthan that posted the grandparent was trying to say that only people that come here illegially will do those jobs. If their here illegally they have to work here illegally. Now as someone else said, teenagers used to work those jobs and got their foot in the door. They still live off their parents and use their income purely for non essential purposes.
Ok heres how it works folks.
Mozilla is built on various libraries and technologies. The "lead singer" of this all is gecko. That is the html renderer. Their are other components, the javascript engine, the DOM model, XSLT, plugins, a network library, etc.
Anyway, Mozilla is like a band. Bordering on an orchestra. However, like any band it gets type casted. So the programmers rearrranged the musicians and created side project bands. Thunderbird and FireFox. Its kind of like how the Wilson sisters have a side project band. Basically if they book a show as said side project, its their way of saying, don't expect us to play Baracudda or Dog and Butterfly.
Back out of metaphor land. All these programs exist in te same source tree. They have intereleated dependencies. The way its setup now is code freezes of core APIs are cordinated so that in theory changes to Gecko and the like don't break any of the applications, except at agreed upon times if their changing the api.
Is that any different from having a favorite athlete? What sports are hard? Require lots of training and talent? Rooting for a programmer doesn't affect his output?
Thats right.
(especially not if the simulation behaved exactly the same)
I wouldn't mind if it includes the infinite respawns.
I for one welcome our new BFG toting overlords!!! Of course I plan on being one of them.
Well if it were me I'd include instructions for compiling the virus with Open Watcom.
Remember, While Carmack and Romero used DJGPP to cross compile Doom and quake from their Next boxes, the shipped binaries were compiled in watcom.
These folks make Bush look semi liberal!
Hrm, increased spending, expanding social security, compassionate conservatism. While The man is a moral conservative, he's got quite the libreal spending streak.
Yes in the grand scheme of things he's quite conservative. However, you want to talk true blue conservative, use an example like McCain or Regan.
Huh? Those calls are pretty much a one-to-one mapping to opendir, readdir, stat, etc. which you'd have to use on POSIX. I wound hardly call FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() one to one mappings of whats in dirent.h. The memory allocation functions are one to one mappings minus the multiple memory pool support. And while in many cases their is a 1 to 1 mapping of functions, Microsofts handling of strings through calling the function with a 0 byte array is non posix like.
Firefox is Mozilla without the email client, right? It can accept the same modules/plugins and everything, right? Or am I way off?
Firefox is based on mozilla code. They created a stand alone browser that was better, smaller, faster than the mozilla one. They also want to redo the concept of mozilla proper where all the components can either be stand alone application or extensions to FireFox. Chec out the roadmap for a better explanation.
No I failed those english classes because I never handed in a paper. I found that if I slow down my typing just a we bit (like I'm doing now), my typos are reduced 95%. I could proofread, but I can barely stand having auto spell check turned on on my email at work. However, my boss kept complaining about my spelling.
Now apperances are important as I've learned, much to my dismay. However, this is a fucking anonymous forum, and Iwill communicate in the manner I wish to. That includes using obsenities, the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers like myself.
My advice to Michael is to get a job, some back-busting, physicaly hard labor for very little pay, and stick with it for at least a year. What to do with his life will come to him pretty quickly.
That would only work if said know it all American were an elitists that thought himself better than his coworkers at said shit paying, back breaking job. Its not that hard to find a nice cushy low paying job that requiresd no skills. Most of the lazy people I know work those kinds of jobs. Their not much different thatn the high paying cushy low work jobs, other than they pay less.
I failed out of college due to laziness, I make about 35% of what I shoudld make. You know why I want to go back to college, becasue I realized alot of the computer books on my to read list are text books from courses I never made it to. Thats my big motivator. Sure I think about going to college for more money, but I also think I should join the gym. Then I remember that I never liked sports much.
In general, seems like computer systems are extremely inbred. This from about 30-40 years ago and it can have only gotten more so. Seems like some cross-breeding is desirable, maybe even essential to long-term survival. Well it looks like all the growth is occuring in innovation causing mutations. I never touch true big iron, but after operating an AS/400 for a while, it seems like their borrowing from our Unix/Windows ideas more than we are borrowing from them. Their are alot of new OSes, and some stuff does find its way into the "mainstream ones," but other than BEOS, what new OS had a shot of making it past few years. The embedded areana is a place for new OSes, but how long befor eWindows and linux conquor that. Remember when NetBSD was the OS to run on "eccentric" hard ware. Now its debian.
"The hybrid source model negatively impacts the intellectual property model for all software, and inevitably the entire IT economy." The same way potable water from the city mains impacts the viability of bottled water. Seems like RedHat isn't doing too badly while the exact same software is available from White-Box? and some others. My understanding is that Linux itself is GPL, hardly fitting any reasonable definition of "hybrid source model". I would imagine that installations use some mixture of BSD, GPL and proprietary software. Solaris with GNU utilities is "hybrid source model"?
Uh ok, I think Kenn means the GPL when he refers to hybrid software. Perhaps I misunderstood the article, but he seems to attack the "viral" nature of the GPL and labels that has hybrid software. Now, personally I would consider that purebred software. Auctualyl I would consider somethign like Qmail purebred software.
It does not compile them in the slightest. What is an interperter, but a compiler that combines the compile and run aspects eliminating the stored machine code?
I'm sure you would love to live in a Randian dreamworld, but the reality is much like the worker's paradise that Rand fled.
Ok time for this conservative to sing the praises of liberals long dead.
I did a quick google and although I've yet to find a primary source for this Randian philisophy, it seems to be of the anarchist/libertarian variety. I'll do some research on this matter, but let me say I'm not a pure libertarian, I do accept the neccesary evil of government. I'll do a little more research and counter that argument later.
Now deep down inside, people are good and helpful, as long as it isn't to inconvient. Luckily, people have this inate sense to accomplish things, that leads some of us to see the bigger picture and seek the warm fuzzy feeling of doing the greater good, inventing something, drinking imported beer, and landing on the moon.
You can with varying degrees of success force people to do certain things. However, you cannot force people to change teir ideas. It is much easier to get people to change their ideas through debate, education, and allowing them to practice free will. You force people to do something and they comply at a minimum. If you show people a better way, you might auctually alter their ideas. Thats is the advantage of Free Market. Sure, there are abuses, that is where you minimal government comes in. To sit their and make sure no one loses and eye. I'm not saying never look to government to solve problems, just make it the last resort.
If the above rant does soind Randian, then maybe I am Randian.
More like recovery from surgery.
Recovery from elective surgery. Granted if your insurance pays for missed time of work due to surgery, pregnancy should be recovered. I have a friend that had a breast reduction, elective surgery, but the insurance companies paid for it on the basic it would be cheapr then paying for the back problems it would prevent.
Its definatly benificial to society that people can continue to have children, but someone does have to pay for it. The cost of paid maternity has to come from somewhere. Some sort of setup like unemployment insurance where employeer and employee both put money into a pool every month is probally a good setup here. More like young and naive. If you gave notice, who'd pay the dentist - oh wait, dentists aren't usually covered anyway. It sounds like you've never had to deal with being out of work for a long period, or pay for medical care in said jobless period.
I never said that it wouldn't be a problem for me. Something like AFLAC where I voluntary take out an insurance policy that covers lost income due to work would be a good idea. However, its my responsibility to make that happen. Just like its my responsibility to go out and leann a skill useful to mankind so I can get a job and put food on my table. It would be an attractive benefit for an employer to provide such supplemental insurance as a group plan, but its not required of them.
Emails containing viruses are replaced by a text message warning that a virus was sent to the email address. Yeah thats the vast majority of the contents my Road Runner inbox.
Spoken like someone who should have his dick cut off, because he obviously doesn't deserve it and couldn't handle the responsibility of being a father. ,it is a God damn fucking disease!!!. A beautiful wonder miraclous disease that lets you take part in Gods miracle of creation, but still a fucking disease.
Perhaps the grandparent post does come off a little harsh. Let me attempt to reply to this.
Pregnancy is expensive medically. As a right wing religious nut pro lifer, my response to fellow pro-lifers attacking the AMA's classification of pregnancy as a disease is
Naturally, healthcare providers have reason to take into account that pregnancy is preventable. However, continuation of the species, and the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness has to balance all this.
With regard to maternity leave, it is basically paid vacation. Vacation is expensive for an employeer. From the employees side, it is a great help in the balance between work and family.
Now, basically prenatal care and maternity leave are expensive. Covering prenatal care via health insurance partially paid by work would be non discriminatory. Being most jobs have a family healthcare option, it is equally expensive to insure a married man or a married woman. Civil unions and common marriages are a topic for another debate. So, yes if ladies want pregnancy paid for, its gonna cost someone else, but in this case the burden falls equally on employeers of mothers and fathers.
Paid maternity leave costs the same as equal time paid vacation. Unpaid maternity leave is inconvient on the employeer. I work technical support. Being there are times I am the only tech on duty, it would be hard for me to do my job if my dentist told me he had to break my jaw and wire it shut for 6 weeks. In my particular situation, it would be easier for my employeer to give me a leave of absense, not have me work day shift on non call releated issues. However, if my dentist said 6 months, it really might be alot easier if I gave notice. It would inconvience me, but an employeers only responsibility is to make payroll as long as you show p to work and do the agreed job.
Some people would say my employeer should be required to take me back, I don't. Perhaps its cause I'm young, single, and stupid. I would like to think otherwise.
After all, it's not the judiciary (in the US, anyway) who gets to decide whether or not IP is good or bad. Ever hear of legislating from the bench. Also theirs a saying that the constitution says whatever the supreme court says it does. Granted this is Canada, but I would assume they have similar balance of power conecpts and abuses as we do in the US. Of course no one can fuck up a country like us
As to the world being contaminated by the seeds of a giant evil corporation, IM zippy1981@jabber.org the details of when and where to meet to dress up like Injuns and throw some crops in the sea.