> " Could this be a turning point in the labor market?"
Nah. It's a turning point in TALKING about the labor market. In today's brave new world, you only have to talk about something to win an election; you don't have to actually do anything about it.
Sorry to see that one go. I subscribed 3 or 4 years ago and it was really useful. I'd still like to find a good pub on web techiques with a mix of technical and UI stuff. (I guess I'm old school: I still prefer paper.)
I think you've got it, even without any "hard scientific data"! If the recycle cost isn't included in the price of the product, then it either gets dumped in a river somewhere or someone else, like taxpayers, has to pay for it. See? No science required. Even you can understand it.
I don't want to pay for disposing of the paint cans that you bought, and I don't want you to throw them over the fence into my yard either. You own 'em. You're responsible for getting rid of them. You should be happy that, for small fee, someone will take that responsibility for you. And for the guy next door to you that has 10 times as many paint cans he'd like you to pay for.
Including life-cycle costs in the price of merchandise isn't "radical environmentalism", it's good conservative cost-accounting. Not sure why you bring human rights into this, but I'm sorry your think they're a bad thing too. You must be very unhappy.
No they don't. The G4 cube is completely silent - can't even hear the hard drive spinning. It's cooled by convection. I don't think any of powerbooks have fans either, though hard drive sounds like a distant vacuum cleaner.
I fired up the old 512K the other day. You stick in a 400K floppy that's got the entire OS, including 8 fonts, MacWrite 1.0 - which still does about 90% of what people use WORD for, and it's got room for a few documents.
Boots in 3.5 seconds too!
I've read that Herzfeld and the others played exactly the kind of tricks in this article to get the original MacOS and a program to run on 128K of Ram.
I did it at a sales meeting in the Red Lion in San Jose. The place I got the fog machine from and the hotel staff both assured me that it was harmless.
Set off the fire alarms, of course.
I emptied the place. There were hundreds of people out in the parking lot. Later I ran into the president of the company. He said "Well, at least everyone will remember your presentation."
Well, you're right about the WTO being a world government. Fortunately for spammers, it's completely controlled by global corporations, so I don't think there's any danger of them doing anything for victims of spam.
No matter how ridiculous some software patents are, they can't hold a candle to the idea of patenting a gene. You'd think you'd have to at least invent something to patent it. I guess if you can patent a gene, then if you figured out how someone else's software worked, you ought to be able to patent that too.
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> " Could this be a turning point in the labor market?"
Nah. It's a turning point in TALKING about the labor market. In today's brave new world, you only have to talk about something to win an election; you don't have to actually do anything about it.
Sorry to see that one go. I subscribed 3 or 4 years ago and it was really useful. I'd still like to find a good pub on web techiques with a mix of technical and UI stuff. (I guess I'm old school: I still prefer paper.)
I think you've got it, even without any "hard scientific data"! If the recycle cost isn't included in the price of the product, then it either gets dumped in a river somewhere or someone else, like taxpayers, has to pay for it. See? No science required. Even you can understand it.
I don't want to pay for disposing of the paint cans that you bought, and I don't want you to throw them over the fence into my yard either. You own 'em. You're responsible for getting rid of them. You should be happy that, for small fee, someone will take that responsibility for you. And for the guy next door to you that has 10 times as many paint cans he'd like you to pay for.
Including life-cycle costs in the price of merchandise isn't "radical environmentalism", it's good conservative cost-accounting. Not sure why you bring human rights into this, but I'm sorry your think they're a bad thing too. You must be very unhappy.
No they don't. The G4 cube is completely silent - can't even hear the hard drive spinning. It's cooled by convection. I don't think any of powerbooks have fans either, though hard drive sounds like a distant vacuum cleaner.
I fired up the old 512K the other day. You stick in a 400K floppy that's got the entire OS, including 8 fonts, MacWrite 1.0 - which still does about 90% of what people use WORD for, and it's got room for a few documents.
Boots in 3.5 seconds too!
I've read that Herzfeld and the others played exactly the kind of tricks in this article to get the original MacOS and a program to run on 128K of Ram.
I did it at a sales meeting in the Red Lion in San Jose. The place I got the fog machine from and the hotel staff both assured me that it was harmless.
Set off the fire alarms, of course.
I emptied the place. There were hundreds of people out in the parking lot. Later I ran into the president of the company. He said "Well, at least everyone will remember your presentation."
Well, you're right about the WTO being a world government. Fortunately for spammers, it's completely controlled by global corporations, so I don't think there's any danger of them doing anything for victims of spam.
No matter how ridiculous some software patents are, they can't hold a candle to the idea of patenting a gene. You'd think you'd have to at least invent something to patent it. I guess if you can patent a gene, then if you figured out how someone else's software worked, you ought to be able to patent that too.