Unions, in an effort to create "fairness", do nothing but ensure that the less proficient employees are paid at the same rate as real hard workers. The end result is that the best in the workforce are held back, and quality of service declines.
But hey, everyone is paid "fairly."
Life in general isn't "fair" but when institutions or governments step in and try to fix things they almost always make things worse.
God damn I hate Unions! We just got over a long strike with the Grocery markets. All that happened in the end was that the workers had to go without pay for months while us customers had to put up with poor service from the scabs... Damn you unions!!! The chains won in in the end, as they should have. We still have a free market in the US. The Chains are still aloud to be competitive, even if that means forcing your employees to pay a little for their health care.
Leo does his show from the comfort of his home in San Fran. The audio is piped to KFI in LA via ISDN. This is how most remote broadcasts are done these days.
It would be nice to have more help in Iraq... 34 countries have boot on the ground now, a few more from France would help, yes. But France, and China are never going to help out here. Remember that France was of one of Saddam's largest business partners. You think Bush is bad... Have you ever heard of a dude called Chirac? What does it mean to you when the leader of a country accepts lucrative oil contracts from a ruthless dictator, as well as provide arms? Most of Iraqs conventional weaponry where from Russia and France. About 1% from the US in the 80s.
As for the UN. It sat on it's hands while close to a million people were murdered by genocide. The US had forces in place but where held back by the UN charter.
As for Bush... He is easily one of the greatest leaders the free world has seen in a long time. He's trying to bring freedom to the hellhole that is the middle east. For America to do nothing, which has been the status quo too long, is immoral. Bush is great protector of freedoms as well, you have not lost any, trust me.
Kerry is scary indeed. From leftist economics to recommending the US go back to the UN for help in Iraq. Had everyone forgotten Rwanda!
Consider this further. When Kerry says "go back to the UN" he is referring to the Security Council. Raise your hands if you know what countries sit on the Security Council. (hint: America, Brittan, China, France, and Russia) How many troops do you all think Kerry is going to get from China?
You are right however, there were many more attacks against American interests during Clintons watch, including the USS Cole and the first attempt on the WTC, and he did nothing. But it's pointless to blame him. There is enough blame to go around for everyone, left and right.
Wow, bad politics abound... Don't drink the Cool Aid!
The Patriot Act, which _will_ be renewed, ain't perfect, but it is important. Whats really scary is the left-wing (personally it's really more like naive college students these days) that decry the patriot act like it's some sort of abomination without citing a single example. Spare me your diatribe on Jose Padilla. He is not the type of person I wish to fight for... The truth of the matter is that terrorists groups, who use unconventional methods, have declared war on America. Defending against this is going to take unconventional counter measures. I'm sorry , but this is just reality. The findings of the 9/11 commission concur.
If you go into any of the photo albums, you can edit many thinks like the title and the caption... Go and add your own captions to the insanely boring photographs!
Hey, I just love the icon Slashdot uses for these kinds of stories. Does anyone know where it's from? Does he have a name? If he doesn't have a name, we should name him.
It's not incorrect to call a Social Democracy Socialist, but you are right, to an extent "Socialism" is a continuum. I actually had a Socialist professor at UC Berkeley who felt "Socialism" was never truly implemented anywhere, and thus should not be referred to as a failed ideology... Alas, such idiocy is far too common in American colleges.
As a die-hard capitalist, it's my opinion that many governments in Europe have exceedingly unhealthy Socialist tendencies. Many in Europe are beginning to come to this realization as well. For example, there is the great
Henrik Hansen at the Copenhagen Business School
I admin close to a hundred Sun and Linux boxes... mostly Sun. They all get packages... Not only does this save time, but it also makes documenting everything for the boss/legal dpt. easy.
It's the old "Nintendo" way of doing business. Create demand by creating a shortage (don't build enough for the demand). Nintendo was infamous for doing this in the 80's.
I see a price raise in the future!!!
I love my iPod mini! But wont use it for music so much as I am an audio snob. (Grado phones and a high end amp, connected to a nice CD player) However!... I love to download books, the WSJ, and various NPR shows from audible.com to listen while working out, on long walks on the beach, chores...
The MuVo uses the same storage device, (a mini disk drive in a Compact Flash Type II form factor) as the iPod mini. The drive alone sells for around $500 US and works in many a digital camera. In fact, I know a few people who have purchased the MuVo with the sole intent of cracking it open, ripping out the compact drive and chucking the rest. They then use the drive in their cameras! The MuVo currently sells for ~$200 US.
Solaris has been trying to compete with Linux for a few years now when it comes to supporting hardware standards. They just can't keep up, however. I yearn for the day Sun gives up Solaris completely for Linux, but I fear it wont happen anytime soon...
As a Sun admin for NASA, I have around 80 Suns running versions of Solaris from old Sun OS boxen to the new Blades with Sol 8. It's down right tough dealing with so many iterations... but I have found that by putting "Sun admin" on my resume garners more pay... I guess I have a love/hate relationship when you think about it.
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Unions, in an effort to create "fairness", do nothing but ensure that the less proficient employees are paid at the same rate as real hard workers. The end result is that the best in the workforce are held back, and quality of service declines.
But hey, everyone is paid "fairly."
Life in general isn't "fair" but when institutions or governments step in and try to fix things they almost always make things worse.
Never let school interfere with you education!
God damn I hate Unions! We just got over a long strike with the Grocery
markets. All that happened in the end was that the workers had to go without
pay for months while us customers had to put up with poor service from the
scabs... Damn you unions!!! The chains won in in the end, as they should
have. We still have a free market in the US. The Chains are still aloud to
be competitive, even if that means forcing your employees to pay a little for
their health care.
Art Bell and Hollywood, a match made in hell.
What a load...
Leo does his show from the comfort of his home in San Fran. The audio is piped to KFI in LA via ISDN. This is how most remote broadcasts are done these days.
It's not Europa, it's Eurabia...
It would be nice to have more help in Iraq... 34 countries have boot on the ground now, a few more from France would help, yes. But France, and China are never going to help out here. Remember that France was of one of Saddam's largest business partners. You think Bush is bad... Have you ever heard of a dude called Chirac? What does it mean to you when the leader of a country accepts lucrative oil contracts from a ruthless dictator, as well as provide arms? Most of Iraqs conventional weaponry where from Russia and France. About 1% from the US in the 80s.
As for the UN. It sat on it's hands while close to a million people were murdered by genocide. The US had forces in place but where held back by the UN charter.
As for Bush... He is easily one of the greatest leaders the free world has seen in a long time. He's trying to bring freedom to the hellhole that is the middle east. For America to do nothing, which has been the status quo too long, is immoral. Bush is great protector of freedoms as well, you have not lost any, trust me.
The point is that the price for such "features" outweigh the usefulness.
Furthermore, those features are only available on Sun's really high end stuff.
Kerry is scary indeed. From leftist economics to recommending the US go back
to the UN for help in Iraq. Had everyone forgotten Rwanda!
Consider this further. When Kerry says "go back to the UN" he is referring to
the Security Council. Raise your hands if you know what countries sit on the
Security Council. (hint: America, Brittan, China, France, and Russia) How
many troops do you all think Kerry is going to get from China?
I'm sorry? What rights have you lost?
You are right however, there were many more attacks against American interests during Clintons watch, including the USS Cole and the first attempt on the WTC, and he did nothing. But it's pointless to blame him. There is enough blame to go around for everyone, left and right.
Wow, bad politics abound... Don't drink the Cool Aid!
The Patriot Act, which _will_ be renewed, ain't perfect, but it is important.
Whats really scary is the left-wing (personally it's really more like naive
college students these days) that decry the patriot act like it's some sort of
abomination without citing a single example. Spare me your diatribe on Jose
Padilla. He is not the type of person I wish to fight for... The truth of the
matter is that terrorists groups, who use unconventional methods, have
declared war on America. Defending against this is going to take
unconventional counter measures. I'm sorry , but this is just reality. The findings of the 9/11 commission concur.
I guess open source art is not as common as open source software.
Why do you install NetTime? Does this offer any advantages over XP's built in
ntp stuff? The built in network time client seems to work fine for me.
Also, I notice you don't install security tools. In my opinion, SpyBot is a
*necessity* for windoze...
If you go into any of the photo albums, you can edit many thinks like the title and the caption... Go and add your own captions to the insanely boring photographs!
Perfectly pointless! Stating the obvious! And it gets modded up?
Hey, I just love the icon Slashdot uses for these kinds of stories. Does anyone know where it's from? Does he have a name? If he doesn't have a name, we should name him.
We need to have something in our arsenal to defend ourselves against the PIGS IN SPAAAAACCEEEE...
It's not incorrect to call a Social Democracy Socialist, but you are right, to an extent "Socialism" is a continuum. I actually had a Socialist professor at UC Berkeley who felt "Socialism" was never truly implemented anywhere, and thus should not be referred to as a failed ideology... Alas, such idiocy is far too common in American colleges.
As a die-hard capitalist, it's my opinion that many governments in Europe have exceedingly unhealthy Socialist tendencies. Many in Europe are beginning to come to this realization as well. For example, there is the great Henrik Hansen
at the Copenhagen Business School
Knowing how nutty socialist governments are, I would not have been surprised if this was a true story.
The sad thing here is that the simple minded "Bush = Hitler" loosers are probably going to believe this story.
I admin close to a hundred Sun and Linux boxes... mostly Sun. They all get packages... Not only does this save time, but it also makes documenting everything for the boss/legal dpt. easy.
I do use source on my personal computers however
Install a gnutella client, or e-mule and be done with it.
If you are really worried about the law, only download those songs you already own on CD.
"A lot of good can come out of this - potentially. But I can see a the potential for misuse too." EVERYTHING has the potential for misuse.
It's the old "Nintendo" way of doing business. Create demand by creating a shortage (don't build enough for the demand). Nintendo was infamous for doing this in the 80's.
I see a price raise in the future!!!
I love my iPod mini! But wont use it for music so much as I am an audio snob. (Grado phones and a high end amp, connected to a nice CD player) However!... I love to download books, the WSJ, and various NPR shows from audible.com to listen while working out, on long walks on the beach, chores...
The MuVo uses the same storage device, (a mini disk drive in a Compact Flash Type II form factor) as the iPod mini. The drive alone sells for around $500 US and works in many a digital camera. In fact, I know a few people who have purchased the MuVo with the sole intent of cracking it open, ripping out the compact drive and chucking the rest. They then use the drive in their cameras! The MuVo currently sells for ~$200 US.
Who else will protect us from the Klingon army hiding behind the moon?
Solaris has been trying to compete with Linux for a few years now when it comes to supporting hardware standards. They just can't keep up, however. I yearn for the day Sun gives up Solaris completely for Linux, but I fear it wont happen anytime soon...
As a Sun admin for NASA, I have around 80 Suns running versions of Solaris from old Sun OS boxen to the new Blades with Sol 8. It's down right tough dealing with so many iterations... but I have found that by putting "Sun admin" on my resume garners more pay... I guess I have a love/hate relationship when you think about it.
Linux is Unix done right...