Hopefully America will seize the territory from the Russians, enemies of the world.
I can see that already. Find a small rock in that see and build a shelter on it — nothing fancy, as long as a SEAL can survive on it for a day or two. Place a retired SEAL on it. Organize a referendum on the rock on whether or not the "residents" wish for their territory to become part of the United States. Claim the land &mdash and the surrounding waters — as American.
That's how strikes work - they cripple their industry as an extreme resort for bargaining purposes.
Sure. All monopolies work that way — this is why we have anti-monopoly laws. We just aren't applying them to unions for some mysterious reasons, even though — letter by letter — that's exactly, what they are. Monopolies seeking to maintain and ever increase the prices of what their members are selling (labor).
If the US saw fit to block a merger of Staples and Office Depot — for fear of the resulting entity dominating the market of the freaking office supplies, how come we not merely tolerate, but encourage monopolies in the market of law-enforcement, teaching, healthcare, and construction labor?
A union would have been able to negotiate better pay and working conditions.
Hanging a couple of grievance-mongers would've improved the morale just as well — and cost much less, don't you think?
Seriously, nobody is forcing people to become — and remain — air-traffic controllers. We don't have slavery — not even indentured labor — and have a reasonably free market. If one remains on the job, then it must be good enough for him to not seek an alternative...
Yes, them. Labor unions are nothing but monopolies (or wanna-be monopolies), whose sole official purpose is maintaining and increasing the prices, their members can charge. As such, they ought to be treated to the anti-monopoly laws as well as, when the members break the law (for the union's sake) with the federal RICO law — as racketeer-influenced and corrupt organizations — rather than have each beating, shooting, or property destruction treated as isolated crimes committed by individual members on their own.
On top of it, any union, whose connection to the bona-fide crime is proven (even if it is just a single union official), must be disbanded automatically and immediately — the innocent members, who wish to unionize again, can do so under a new name later.
Both are doing it for profit for the companies and directly against the interest of their own employees.
They do. But they've grown to become that way naturally — not by using the law to force others to join them, as the unions are legally empowered to do.
What about the collusion among tech companies to not hire each other's employees?
Such collusions — if they are legal to begin with — are not supported by the existing law. Very much unlike the unionization — whereby a group of employees may vote to "unionize" a particular workplace and then they get to force other employees to join their union as well as prevent the employer from hiring outside of the union.
Sure, people ought to be free to associate with each other. But labor unions have much more law on their side, than a church club or a bowling league. And that just should not be the case...
Perhaps you are confused about which side the NSA is on.
Seems like one of us is confused indeed. They are on America's side and they are sincere. They will not act on a threat — such as a prankster talking about a terrorist act on his phone — if they consider it bogus. Now, it may be possible for such a prankster to fool them — and they may choose to err on the side of caution. But they are quite smart, so fooling them is not easy...
I strongly suspect, the NSA are a lot smarter, than your average pig or a school principal. Their reaction will be more appropriate than that of a local police department or school...
Remember when Ronald Reagan fired all of the air traffic controllers because they had the nerve to form a union and strike for better pay?
You mean, when they conspired to cripple the nation's air-transportation — holding the rest of us hostage? Imagine, Verizon turning off all telephones to demand lower taxes — a public employee has an even stronger monopoly power...
Now the air traffic controllers work on obsolete equipment, get paid very little, have a stressful job with long hours
That must all be Reagan's fault, right, 30 years later...
I am almost amazed no one has gone crazy before now.
Maybe, it just is not quite as bad as you are describing?
Nearly 2,000 flights in Chicago have been canceled so far today as federal aviation officials slowly resume operations at O'Hare and Midway airports following a fire that was deliberately set at an FAA radar center, apparently by a disgruntled worker.
If a single person can cause so much havoc without killing anyone — and without the condemnation and sympathy for the victim concomitant with any would-be murder — the terrorists don't need to kill.
Heck, they don't even need to set fire — just phone-in an anonymous warning.
A moderately motivated group could also disable a city's subway system for hours — by boarding the trains on carefully picked stations and pretending to have a seizure of some sort. Our kind society's rules (as evidenced in that paragon of humanity New York City) say, you can not be taken out of the train — except by "qualified personnel". So all other passengers will be removed from the car and the train will wait for the EMS to arrive and figure out, what to do with you. If your friends do the same to every other subway lines at the same time — during rush hour — your organization is bound to get donations, all without you killing or maiming a single person...
With sendfile () you have an open socket and you tell the kernel to send a file over that socket. No more copying of data and no context-switches.
Sendfile() (and mmap()) are, indeed, the proper interfaces for sending an entire file out. Unfortunately, they aren't particularly well-used — the speed of RAM on modern computers usually makes any wins from funky APIs not worth the effort. It does not help, that various OSes have a completely different call named "sendfile"...
Even Varnish — which most people put in front of their CMS-powered sites — abolished it some time ago (years after advising users to disable it first)... Sad, but true.
When Amazon made their announcement, my first thought was, the parcel-carriers should all be doing it. Sellers might too, but for FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL and other mail-companies, this is a must going forward.
I even bought some AVAV shares back then — the only publicly-traded company I could find, for whom drone-making is the primary business...
Further - no viable light bulb replacements will work with dimmer switches (Which my house has many).
We have about 40 LED ceiling-lights throughout the house — all of them dimmable. You just need to use the right switches — those, working with the LED's much lower current requirements.
It is, of course, a pain in the various body parts to replace both the bulbs and the switches (and often times — the fixtures too), and it should never be mandated by government. We did, because we were renovating the house anyway. But to claim, that it is not possible, is to spread FUD.
The overall US tax burden (all taxes, all levels of government), as a fraction of the GDP has shown
The link you offered — whatever its credibility — shows government spending as a percentage of GDP.
This is related to, but not at all the same as the tax burden of individuals.
Now, here is, what happened January 1, 2014 in the US:
Top Income Tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%
Top Income Payroll Tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%
Capital Gains Tax went from 15% to 28%
Dividend Tax went from 15% to 39.6%
If that's not grow taxes, what is?
no matter how many times you repeat the "ever growing taxes" lie, it does not become true.
It is true no matter how many times you deny it. And next time, do your own homework, before you accuse someone else of not merely being mistaken, but of lying...
if it's BASH then there could be a *LOT* more exploitable devices out there than people might think.
Only if the shell can be executed from the outside while also providing arbitrary values for any environment variable. The latter part is not true, I'm pretty sure...
No BSD system uses bash — if only for licensing issues (bash is GNU-licensed).. Thus, you are safe (from this bug) on DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and any other BSD-licensed OS, unless you deliberately installed bash (such as from port) and wrote a CGI-script to use it.
Simply keeping a home used to take so much time, a woman could not work on anything else. Nowadays, with electricity, indoor plumbing, vacuum cleaners, dish- and laundry-washing machines and other labor-saving appliances, it is much simpler and many women do have careers.
But pregnancy remains, for the time being at least, something, that must be done personally — and many women do consider it a burden.
Some day, one hopes, they'll have the option of using an incubator the way today's woman has an option of reheating dinner in a microwave rather than cooking it anew in a brick oven heated by fine firewood.
Those, who consider such future "distopian", will still be welcome to carry the child themselves — and accept the concomitant pains, health-risks, and lost wages...
Given the ever growing taxes in various countries (US included) I find it harder and harder to blame tax-evaders.
If it keeps going like this, modern Robin Hoods may start appearing shooting those drones from the sky the way Mr. Hood was sabotaging tax-collecting efforts of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
That says only, women are paid less then men. It does not account for the fact, that women are also far more likely than men to give birth or to take weeks (and months and years) away from work (and the labor force altogether) to be a mother.
A woman returning into labor force after years will be — justifiably and justly — paid a newby's salary — which will drag down the entire gender's statistics. Indeed, the link you so kindly provided (but, evidently, failed to read) says so upfront:
The statistic does not take into account differences in experience, skill, occupation, education or hours worked, as long as it qualifies as full-time work.
It then cites some anonymous economist, who claimed, even after adjusting for such differences in experience, men still end up paid more, which some explain by discrimination...
Much too often the entire "wage gap" is blamed on discrimination, while, in fact, even that much smaller fraction of it can not be linked to discrimination indisputably...
Bell Labs, Xerox PARC and others existed to do research on things that weren't even close to core business.
Then they must've been looking to expand their core business. Could you provide examples?
The simple fact is there are almost no publicly traded companies today who can dump even a small fraction of their money into researching something that is not directly related to their product line without a shareholder revolt.
Any substantial expense needs — and always needed — to be justified to shareholders, yes. If you are hoping to profit from the research, then you should have no problem convincing the shareholders of the profit-potential. This has always been the case and I fail to see, what, in your opinion, is wrong about it. This does not mean, companies aren't doing scientific work (anymore) — as was alleged earlier in the thread. Not at all.
And I do agree, that convincing a handful of investors is easier than thousands — which does give privately-held companies more freedom to both rise and fail. But this also is not a "sad sign of modern times".
What exactly do you think Microsoft's shareholders would do if MS announced they were getting into gigabit fiber buildouts like Google is doing?
Are you saying, the gigabit fiber buildout Google is doing qualifies as research?
what advances in pay should be based upon, if not performance and time in job.
I don't know... Nor do I really care, because I am not running my own business. What I do know, however, is that any attempts to legislate salary increases will both be unfair and backfire...
is women who do NOT leave for childrearing or other pursuits still being paid less on the basis that males are the breadwinners in their families.
In a free-market society, one gets the salary one is able to negotiate — regardless of one's gender.
The problem is this all too often extends into not giving women promising assignments because she just got married and might start making babies soon. [...]
And they are absolutely correct — that risk does exist, there is no way out of it. That's how mammals are — bearing and rearing the young is primarily the females' burden...
women are still far from equal
They aren't — 100% of births are given by women. 100%! Think about it...
Men face a much higher arrest and conviction rate for sexual assaults. They also face stiffer penalties when convicted.
Worse! A pure 100% of people, who've ever given birth, are women... Until the Feminist movement acknowledges that giant elephant in the room, they can not be taken seriously harping on any other petty "imbalances".
The biggest problem is that women pressure other women to settle for less careerwise in order to put a priority on getting married and having a family. Mothers are the worst at this as they want grand babies.
The phenomenon obviously exists, but why do you attach such negativity to it? Without babies the humanity will cease to exist pretty soon no matter how successful "freed" women are at their other pursuits.
And pregnancy — and subsequent child-rearing — do cost women professionally. Not because anybody is "sexist", but simply because you can not give a promising assignment to an employee, who just is not there (because she is on maternity leave).
Some women may view this as unfortunate, others — as a privilege, but whatever you feel about it, there is no one to blame for it any more, than we can prosecute someone for gravity...
Maybe, some day, we'll have incubation centers freeing women from the need to carry the burden for months. But I'm not very optimistic, given that we are yet to solve even the much simpler problem of breast-feeding.
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I can see that already. Find a small rock in that see and build a shelter on it — nothing fancy, as long as a SEAL can survive on it for a day or two. Place a retired SEAL on it. Organize a referendum on the rock on whether or not the "residents" wish for their territory to become part of the United States. Claim the land &mdash and the surrounding waters — as American.
PROFIT!
Sure. All monopolies work that way — this is why we have anti-monopoly laws. We just aren't applying them to unions for some mysterious reasons, even though — letter by letter — that's exactly, what they are. Monopolies seeking to maintain and ever increase the prices of what their members are selling (labor).
If the US saw fit to block a merger of Staples and Office Depot — for fear of the resulting entity dominating the market of the freaking office supplies, how come we not merely tolerate, but encourage monopolies in the market of law-enforcement, teaching, healthcare, and construction labor?
Hanging a couple of grievance-mongers would've improved the morale just as well — and cost much less, don't you think?
Seriously, nobody is forcing people to become — and remain — air-traffic controllers. We don't have slavery — not even indentured labor — and have a reasonably free market. If one remains on the job, then it must be good enough for him to not seek an alternative...
Yes, them. Labor unions are nothing but monopolies (or wanna-be monopolies), whose sole official purpose is maintaining and increasing the prices, their members can charge. As such, they ought to be treated to the anti-monopoly laws as well as, when the members break the law (for the union's sake) with the federal RICO law — as racketeer-influenced and corrupt organizations — rather than have each beating, shooting, or property destruction treated as isolated crimes committed by individual members on their own.
On top of it, any union, whose connection to the bona-fide crime is proven (even if it is just a single union official), must be disbanded automatically and immediately — the innocent members, who wish to unionize again, can do so under a new name later.
They do. But they've grown to become that way naturally — not by using the law to force others to join them, as the unions are legally empowered to do.
Such collusions — if they are legal to begin with — are not supported by the existing law. Very much unlike the unionization — whereby a group of employees may vote to "unionize" a particular workplace and then they get to force other employees to join their union as well as prevent the employer from hiring outside of the union.
Sure, people ought to be free to associate with each other. But labor unions have much more law on their side, than a church club or a bowling league. And that just should not be the case...
Seems like one of us is confused indeed. They are on America's side and they are sincere. They will not act on a threat — such as a prankster talking about a terrorist act on his phone — if they consider it bogus. Now, it may be possible for such a prankster to fool them — and they may choose to err on the side of caution. But they are quite smart, so fooling them is not easy...
I strongly suspect, the NSA are a lot smarter, than your average pig or a school principal. Their reaction will be more appropriate than that of a local police department or school...
You mean, when they conspired to cripple the nation's air-transportation — holding the rest of us hostage? Imagine, Verizon turning off all telephones to demand lower taxes — a public employee has an even stronger monopoly power...
That must all be Reagan's fault, right, 30 years later...
Maybe, it just is not quite as bad as you are describing?
Nobody owes you a living. Not even if you are a well invested-into employee.
If a single person can cause so much havoc without killing anyone — and without the condemnation and sympathy for the victim concomitant with any would-be murder — the terrorists don't need to kill.
Heck, they don't even need to set fire — just phone-in an anonymous warning.
A moderately motivated group could also disable a city's subway system for hours — by boarding the trains on carefully picked stations and pretending to have a seizure of some sort. Our kind society's rules (as evidenced in that paragon of humanity New York City) say, you can not be taken out of the train — except by "qualified personnel". So all other passengers will be removed from the car and the train will wait for the EMS to arrive and figure out, what to do with you. If your friends do the same to every other subway lines at the same time — during rush hour — your organization is bound to get donations, all without you killing or maiming a single person...
But let's not change the subject — nor answer a question with a question...
I was considering it, actually — for when the web-server and the DB must be on the same host for budgetary reasons.
What's wrong with it?
Sendfile() (and mmap()) are, indeed, the proper interfaces for sending an entire file out. Unfortunately, they aren't particularly well-used — the speed of RAM on modern computers usually makes any wins from funky APIs not worth the effort. It does not help, that various OSes have a completely different call named "sendfile"...
Even Varnish — which most people put in front of their CMS-powered sites — abolished it some time ago (years after advising users to disable it first)... Sad, but true.
When Amazon made their announcement, my first thought was, the parcel-carriers should all be doing it. Sellers might too, but for FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL and other mail-companies, this is a must going forward.
I even bought some AVAV shares back then — the only publicly-traded company I could find, for whom drone-making is the primary business...
We have about 40 LED ceiling-lights throughout the house — all of them dimmable. You just need to use the right switches — those, working with the LED's much lower current requirements.
It is, of course, a pain in the various body parts to replace both the bulbs and the switches (and often times — the fixtures too), and it should never be mandated by government. We did, because we were renovating the house anyway. But to claim, that it is not possible, is to spread FUD.
Darn, sorry, hit "Post" instead of "Continue editing". If you aren't convinced yet, taxes are growing, here is another item: the share of Americans in the labor-force is lower in recent years than in Bush's era, the percentage collecting "disability" is record high, the official unemployment numbers remain stubbornly above Bush's, but the Federal revenue is the highest ever.
This can only mean one thing — those of us, who are still working, are paying the ever higher taxes...
The link you offered — whatever its credibility — shows government spending as a percentage of GDP.
This is related to, but not at all the same as the tax burden of individuals.
Now, here is, what happened January 1, 2014 in the US:
If that's not grow taxes, what is?
It is true no matter how many times you deny it. And next time, do your own homework, before you accuse someone else of not merely being mistaken, but of lying...
Only if the shell can be executed from the outside while also providing arbitrary values for any environment variable. The latter part is not true, I'm pretty sure...
No BSD system uses bash — if only for licensing issues (bash is GNU-licensed).. Thus, you are safe (from this bug) on DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and any other BSD-licensed OS, unless you deliberately installed bash (such as from port) and wrote a CGI-script to use it.
Simply keeping a home used to take so much time, a woman could not work on anything else. Nowadays, with electricity, indoor plumbing, vacuum cleaners, dish- and laundry-washing machines and other labor-saving appliances, it is much simpler and many women do have careers.
But pregnancy remains, for the time being at least, something, that must be done personally — and many women do consider it a burden.
Some day, one hopes, they'll have the option of using an incubator the way today's woman has an option of reheating dinner in a microwave rather than cooking it anew in a brick oven heated by fine firewood.
Those, who consider such future "distopian", will still be welcome to carry the child themselves — and accept the concomitant pains, health-risks, and lost wages...
Given the ever growing taxes in various countries (US included) I find it harder and harder to blame tax-evaders.
If it keeps going like this, modern Robin Hoods may start appearing shooting those drones from the sky the way Mr. Hood was sabotaging tax-collecting efforts of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
That says only, women are paid less then men. It does not account for the fact, that women are also far more likely than men to give birth or to take weeks (and months and years) away from work (and the labor force altogether) to be a mother.
A woman returning into labor force after years will be — justifiably and justly — paid a newby's salary — which will drag down the entire gender's statistics. Indeed, the link you so kindly provided (but, evidently, failed to read) says so upfront:
It then cites some anonymous economist, who claimed, even after adjusting for such differences in experience, men still end up paid more, which some explain by discrimination...
Much too often the entire "wage gap" is blamed on discrimination, while, in fact, even that much smaller fraction of it can not be linked to discrimination indisputably...
Then they must've been looking to expand their core business. Could you provide examples?
Any substantial expense needs — and always needed — to be justified to shareholders, yes. If you are hoping to profit from the research, then you should have no problem convincing the shareholders of the profit-potential. This has always been the case and I fail to see, what, in your opinion, is wrong about it. This does not mean, companies aren't doing scientific work (anymore) — as was alleged earlier in the thread. Not at all.
And I do agree, that convincing a handful of investors is easier than thousands — which does give privately-held companies more freedom to both rise and fail. But this also is not a "sad sign of modern times".
Are you saying, the gigabit fiber buildout Google is doing qualifies as research?
I don't know... Nor do I really care, because I am not running my own business. What I do know, however, is that any attempts to legislate salary increases will both be unfair and backfire...
In a free-market society, one gets the salary one is able to negotiate — regardless of one's gender.
And they are absolutely correct — that risk does exist, there is no way out of it. That's how mammals are — bearing and rearing the young is primarily the females' burden...
They aren't — 100% of births are given by women. 100%! Think about it...
Worse! A pure 100% of people, who've ever given birth, are women... Until the Feminist movement acknowledges that giant elephant in the room, they can not be taken seriously harping on any other petty "imbalances".
The phenomenon obviously exists, but why do you attach such negativity to it? Without babies the humanity will cease to exist pretty soon no matter how successful "freed" women are at their other pursuits.
And pregnancy — and subsequent child-rearing — do cost women professionally. Not because anybody is "sexist", but simply because you can not give a promising assignment to an employee, who just is not there (because she is on maternity leave).
Some women may view this as unfortunate, others — as a privilege, but whatever you feel about it, there is no one to blame for it any more, than we can prosecute someone for gravity...
Maybe, some day, we'll have incubation centers freeing women from the need to carry the burden for months. But I'm not very optimistic, given that we are yet to solve even the much simpler problem of breast-feeding.