Listen, friend. I voted for a Republican, a Democrat and a Green in the 2000 elections. It has nothing to do with your indoctrinated misconstruction of what "liberalism" is and everything to do with the government put the screws to liberty. I'd rather pay 2x the taxes, get a good education for it and be able to say, do, and think as I feel and please. Get your head out of the FoxNews warnography peep show and into what is going on.
You aren't alone. There are millions of people who'd rather be able to drive their SUV using cheap gas to their chipboard mansions in the suburbs, all the while, thinking that Big Corporation contrivance equals freedom. The irony is: we are "liberating" Iraq, but Bush, Cheney, Karl (Goebbels without the whimsy) Rove, et al. are using the memory of all those people who were killed at the WTC, in Afghanistan and, now Iraq, to set up their own control of your totality.
I repeat: Oceania has always been at war with East Asia!
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Company must hire to meet work demand in a fluctuating economy.
Or is that to create supply? Funny how "free-market" capitalists can't make up their minds.
Government regulates pay and benefits to full-time employees to make them very expensive.
Right. Please demonstrate how the government regulates pay at a private firm.
Company reacts by hiring more part-timers and temps.
Because it is too concerned with short-term bottom-lining than long term growth of its company with dedicated employees who show up to do incredible work for a good wage and benefit package.
Government regulates temps to try to force companies to hire more full-time workers.
Again, show how the government does this.
Company pushes temps to the margins.
By definition, a temp is a marginal worker.
Full-time workers given busier workload and longer hours.
Because, company is too concerned about short-term bottom-lining to invest in more dedicated workers devoted to the company and rewarded with a good wage and benefits package.
Arguably the company may eventually hire more full time workers, but at the expense of a lot of decent part-time and temp jobs.
Part-time and temp jobs which do not pay benefits and are usually lower waged, thereby increasing the profits for the company at the expense of workers.
See where this is going folks?
Yes.
I remember when the commie pinkos picked up the cause or the "temps" and "contracted workers" a few years ago.
Wheeeeee! Red Baiting! Welcome back to the 1950s! Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? No. But you were a member of the IBEW? Ummm, that's a union not a Soviet cadre.
Only an idiot would doublt it would end in the same way the "benefits" of unionizing did.
I am waiting to see how this ends... Waiting... Waiting...
Remember most cases don't go to trial and many people plea bargain. Yes, when you plea bargain, you admit guilt for a lesser sentence (or to keep them from killing you), but that offer is usually arranged by your PD because they know that if you go to trial with $50 in your pocket, black skin and The Man holding all of the cards, even if you didn't do it, your ass is in deep shit.
if only google would allow us to ignore blogs. Man, does searching suck now. Half of some of my searches produce blogs. in other words, they produce hot-air from people who consider linking to other blogs "proof."
Guys, next time you see anything relating to global climate change, go read some of the actual science on it (Google will be happy to help) before posting here, ok
Problem is that all you get is blogs on google nowadays. Half-baked rants by right-wing stevedores who still get worked up by a guy who is not and can never be again President of the US. "Scientists see interesting shift in climatic trends in the past 5000 year." Communists! Links to other blogs claiming disproval of the scientists supported by links to other blogs. Weak adhominen attack on Bill Clinton. Satisfaction.
I think this may be my own experience with bankruptcy:-( speaking, but then I remembered that hera in the states bankruptcy is radically differenct from state to state. TN is a great bankruptcy state. Don't know about Michigan. Still I think the point is that you are getting you life screwed up for the want of, gulp, Blink-182! Hell, I will give the kid my old Clash CDs. At least that's real punk rock.
He'd better declare bankruptcy BEFORE they find against him, or he still owes the money to some degree. Realistically, he'll probably settle (if he can, I think these are criminal punitive damages under the DMCA) and have to do some poster child work. Still, for the want of some shit corporate rock, your life is irreparably altered.
My money is on everyone saying "Fuck downloads. Check out live local acts."
Actually, if you read the complaint he had less than 2000 on his machine but was using Flatlan to provide access to files on many other machines on the campus lan.
Nope. As a person who has had to turn off/on students in dorms for violating copyright, I can tell you that compliance for the service provider (the University) is vigilance on acting upon legal notifications of breach of copyright by the RIAA. Irregardless of whatever half-baked sense of freedom swapping files gives a student, right now, it is against the law. If the university shuts you off for sharing files, they have complied with their end of the deal. If you say you won't do it again, and they turn you back on, then you do it again, boo-hoo. We really try to protect the students and educate them to the point of creating streaming videos of how to not get in this sort of trouble. Still, you can not get through to all of the wannabe 19-year-old Perry Masons of the world. Dance with the devil and, brother, you get burned. By turning this guy over, who was using Flatlan (IIRC, which is way more egregious than Kazaa), MTU probably insulated themselves from lawsuit thereby protecting the taxpayers of Michigan from paying a settlement to the RIAA because some kid thinks he is above the law. I hope they stripe his legs for the simple fact that he put the University at financial risk and Michigan's taxpayers as well.
Help me with my astronomy! Can we infer that the Gas giants might have helped form the inner planets if a companion mass like a star or large planet is necessary to do so? I don't know the accepted timeline/sequence of planetary formation in our system, but this kinda popped to mind.
You do not receive dividends on 401(k) investments (which are tax free, no?) as you do not directly own the stocks, therefore you do not pay the tax on dividend income because you do not receive dividends. Corporate investors (in the telescoped version of the American investing world you present) do not see tax savings under Bush's non-economic plan as those are nothing but bottom-line gravy for the corporations controlling the money. Of course, if you directly owned the stock in those corporations, then you could get a dividend from that gravy but then you would pay the tax.
One the greatest problems with arguing about this is that most people don't realize that it is not as simple as it looks. In this case, the Republicans conflate dividends on stocks with mom-and-pop investing in a 401(k). The two are mutually exclusive.
When it is fairness to the poor it is "Class Warfare." When it is fairness to the rich, it is "an economic plan."
The latest budget, which you wouldn't know about because the propaganda box talks nothing about it because of the diversionary war, was whacked in half. Left in place though: all of the breaks for the richest 1-2 percent of Americans. And they cut 28 billion from veteran's programs to keep the dividend tax reduction. People impacted by the dividend tax reduction make over 150000 a year. People who receive veteran's benefits (mainly because the weathly don't serve) 24000 a year.
The US pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty because it was so lax on "developing nations", including China.
This is what is called an "excuse." The real reason is that it would have forced the US to face the unsustainability of it's current environmental regime with regard to carbon emissions and the impact switching to a better model would have on the economy. Given that the US is in a shitload of trouble now that Bush has let the budget deficit skyrocket (while handing a fat tax break to the wealthiest of Americans), it looks like a smart move. But eventually, this is going to have to be faced, as well as, the incredibly unsustainable foreign trade imbalance will be too. The EU could embargo us and put the lights out, given the current levels of productivity there and our insatiable need to consume.
BTW, China is not the world's largest polluter. Not even in terms of per capita. The US is.
As a non-American, it seems logical to me that you should expect your government to make a conscious decision before a legal doctrine should undergo such a transformation. Instead, you have a situation where business has made the decision and then gradually weaselled it into law through undue influence of your executive (patent office) and parliamentary government.
You sir, have just explained "the American Way" to us all!
To be honest, I would love to have a switch in google that excludes blogs. Given the way Google works and the culture of linking to and fro between many different blogs, sometimes (another annoying feature of google) an innocuous search on "Talmudic discourses" will produce a raging Anti-Semitic diatribe in a blog. I think that person has a right to post such stuff, but I wish I could filter on it to get to what I am looking for. "Talmudic discourse -blogs." Yes, currently the search is not producing the blog I saw the first time. Grrrrrrr.
And the sick thing of all this is that while we Americans laud "choice" and "competition," teeny-tiny countries like Slovenia have 5 providers for a 2-million head market. Calls are dirt cheap (often free for intra-provider) and coverage is amazing. When you go into a Mobitel shop, you get help and clear, understandable plans like "calls are 10 tolars a minute and one tolar Mobitel to Mobitel. You don't even have to get a plan and still have a full featured phone (SMS, voicemail, bank account access, web, etc.) using prepaid.
Here in Tennessee, you are saddled with shit coverage. I can stand on one side of my yard and not get a signal with line-of-sight to the tower but go in the basement and it comes right up. You are saddled with shit sales support. Going to a Verizon or Cingular shop is like stepping back into the Ottoman Empire. You are saddled with equally Byzantine plans. 400 anytime minutes with rollover and 1000 nights and weekend minutes for $49.95. Get bill: $219. What? See you called between 1830 and 1700 on a Tuesday. Well, if you read the teeny-tiny print on the contract you'd see we reserve the right to not honor our agreement during that time if market rates for long-distance are not beneficial to the aggregate good of our customer base. What about my rollover minutes? Sorry, sir. You have to use those all up by the end of each quarter or they are lost.
This is non-sense to the point of being a wonderfully crafted troll.
Let's take RedHat8.0. My mom, who is an e-mailer of Proustian proportions, comes to visit. "Can I check my mail?" So I added an account for her on my workstation. She said "So this is Linux?" I got distracted for a second and by time I got back to being instructive she had Mozilla opened and was looking at some silly ass powerpoint some friend sent along in OO. This is a person who calls all technical matters "thingies."
Of course, that's not the majority of users, isn't scientific, yada, yada.... Let's not even get on to Mandrake, which is, by far, the easiest OS install ever. Sure if you have some odd ball hardware, it can get hairy, but it is so much better than a vanilla XP on a Dell laptop.
Here's the problem: sure, microsoft can try to EE&E or market the hell out of whatever bloatware shitbomb they foist on my poor mother, but Google is more than a search engine, it is a verb. It is a fast-loading, fast-searching, cultural icon. Microsoft has to deal with that monster first.
I didn't say that. I am pointing out that it really isn't as significant to society as one might think. That a society would consider it significant is indicative of the how that society is constructed. The significance merely reinforces the construction.
TIME
Sorry, I see this so much in undergraduate papers, that it is a Pavlovian response to ask exactly when time began.
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Oceania has always been at war with East Asia!
Listen, friend. I voted for a Republican, a Democrat and a Green in the 2000 elections. It has nothing to do with your indoctrinated misconstruction of what "liberalism" is and everything to do with the government put the screws to liberty. I'd rather pay 2x the taxes, get a good education for it and be able to say, do, and think as I feel and please. Get your head out of the FoxNews warnography peep show and into what is going on.
You aren't alone. There are millions of people who'd rather be able to drive their SUV using cheap gas to their chipboard mansions in the suburbs, all the while, thinking that Big Corporation contrivance equals freedom. The irony is: we are "liberating" Iraq, but Bush, Cheney, Karl (Goebbels without the whimsy) Rove, et al. are using the memory of all those people who were killed at the WTC, in Afghanistan and, now Iraq, to set up their own control of your totality.
I repeat: Oceania has always been at war with East Asia!
Company must hire to meet work demand in a fluctuating economy.
Or is that to create supply? Funny how "free-market" capitalists can't make up their minds.
Government regulates pay and benefits to full-time employees to make them very expensive.
Right. Please demonstrate how the government regulates pay at a private firm.
Company reacts by hiring more part-timers and temps.
Because it is too concerned with short-term bottom-lining than long term growth of its company with dedicated employees who show up to do incredible work for a good wage and benefit package.
Government regulates temps to try to force companies to hire more full-time workers.
Again, show how the government does this.
Company pushes temps to the margins.
By definition, a temp is a marginal worker.
Full-time workers given busier workload and longer hours.
Because, company is too concerned about short-term bottom-lining to invest in more dedicated workers devoted to the company and rewarded with a good wage and benefits package.
Arguably the company may eventually hire more full time workers, but at the expense of a lot of decent part-time and temp jobs.
Part-time and temp jobs which do not pay benefits and are usually lower waged, thereby increasing the profits for the company at the expense of workers.
See where this is going folks?
Yes.
I remember when the commie pinkos picked up the cause or the "temps" and "contracted workers" a few years ago.
Wheeeeee! Red Baiting! Welcome back to the 1950s! Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? No. But you were a member of the IBEW? Ummm, that's a union not a Soviet cadre.
Only an idiot would doublt it would end in the same way the "benefits" of unionizing did.
I am waiting to see how this ends... Waiting... Waiting...
Remember most cases don't go to trial and many people plea bargain. Yes, when you plea bargain, you admit guilt for a lesser sentence (or to keep them from killing you), but that offer is usually arranged by your PD because they know that if you go to trial with $50 in your pocket, black skin and The Man holding all of the cards, even if you didn't do it, your ass is in deep shit.
Leave it to Theo to work an algorithm from the inside out.
1. Posses huge, pain-in-the-ass ego.
2. ?????
3. Get $2 million
4. Take over the world.
if only google would allow us to ignore blogs. Man, does searching suck now. Half of some of my searches produce blogs. in other words, they produce hot-air from people who consider linking to other blogs "proof."
Guys, next time you see anything relating to global climate change, go read some of the actual science on it (Google will be happy to help) before posting here, ok
Problem is that all you get is blogs on google nowadays. Half-baked rants by right-wing stevedores who still get worked up by a guy who is not and can never be again President of the US. "Scientists see interesting shift in climatic trends in the past 5000 year." Communists! Links to other blogs claiming disproval of the scientists supported by links to other blogs. Weak adhominen attack on Bill Clinton. Satisfaction.
Half the beer of front, half of the beer when you deliver.
they say that at its height he had 76 of the top 100 computers people in the country
So who were the other 24? C'mon, dish.
I think this may be my own experience with bankruptcy :-( speaking, but then I remembered that hera in the states bankruptcy is radically differenct from state to state. TN is a great bankruptcy state. Don't know about Michigan. Still I think the point is that you are getting you life screwed up for the want of, gulp, Blink-182! Hell, I will give the kid my old Clash CDs. At least that's real punk rock.
He'd better declare bankruptcy BEFORE they find against him, or he still owes the money to some degree. Realistically, he'll probably settle (if he can, I think these are criminal punitive damages under the DMCA) and have to do some poster child work. Still, for the want of some shit corporate rock, your life is irreparably altered.
My money is on everyone saying "Fuck downloads. Check out live local acts."
You know how the RIAA are good with numbers....
As good as the Detroit Free Press presumably.
Actually, if you read the complaint he had less than 2000 on his machine but was using Flatlan to provide access to files on many other machines on the campus lan.
Nope. As a person who has had to turn off/on students in dorms for violating copyright, I can tell you that compliance for the service provider (the University) is vigilance on acting upon legal notifications of breach of copyright by the RIAA. Irregardless of whatever half-baked sense of freedom swapping files gives a student, right now, it is against the law. If the university shuts you off for sharing files, they have complied with their end of the deal. If you say you won't do it again, and they turn you back on, then you do it again, boo-hoo. We really try to protect the students and educate them to the point of creating streaming videos of how to not get in this sort of trouble. Still, you can not get through to all of the wannabe 19-year-old Perry Masons of the world. Dance with the devil and, brother, you get burned. By turning this guy over, who was using Flatlan (IIRC, which is way more egregious than Kazaa), MTU probably insulated themselves from lawsuit thereby protecting the taxpayers of Michigan from paying a settlement to the RIAA because some kid thinks he is above the law. I hope they stripe his legs for the simple fact that he put the University at financial risk and Michigan's taxpayers as well.
Help me with my astronomy! Can we infer that the Gas giants might have helped form the inner planets if a companion mass like a star or large planet is necessary to do so? I don't know the accepted timeline/sequence of planetary formation in our system, but this kinda popped to mind.
You do not receive dividends on 401(k) investments (which are tax free, no?) as you do not directly own the stocks, therefore you do not pay the tax on dividend income because you do not receive dividends. Corporate investors (in the telescoped version of the American investing world you present) do not see tax savings under Bush's non-economic plan as those are nothing but bottom-line gravy for the corporations controlling the money. Of course, if you directly owned the stock in those corporations, then you could get a dividend from that gravy but then you would pay the tax.
One the greatest problems with arguing about this is that most people don't realize that it is not as simple as it looks. In this case, the Republicans conflate dividends on stocks with mom-and-pop investing in a 401(k). The two are mutually exclusive.
When it is fairness to the poor it is "Class Warfare." When it is fairness to the rich, it is "an economic plan."
The latest budget, which you wouldn't know about because the propaganda box talks nothing about it because of the diversionary war, was whacked in half. Left in place though: all of the breaks for the richest 1-2 percent of Americans. And they cut 28 billion from veteran's programs to keep the dividend tax reduction. People impacted by the dividend tax reduction make over 150000 a year. People who receive veteran's benefits (mainly because the weathly don't serve) 24000 a year.
The US pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty because it was so lax on "developing nations", including China.
This is what is called an "excuse." The real reason is that it would have forced the US to face the unsustainability of it's current environmental regime with regard to carbon emissions and the impact switching to a better model would have on the economy. Given that the US is in a shitload of trouble now that Bush has let the budget deficit skyrocket (while handing a fat tax break to the wealthiest of Americans), it looks like a smart move. But eventually, this is going to have to be faced, as well as, the incredibly unsustainable foreign trade imbalance will be too. The EU could embargo us and put the lights out, given the current levels of productivity there and our insatiable need to consume.
BTW, China is not the world's largest polluter. Not even in terms of per capita. The US is.
As a non-American, it seems logical to me that you should expect your government to make a conscious decision before a legal doctrine should undergo such a transformation. Instead, you have a situation where business has made the decision and then gradually weaselled it into law through undue influence of your executive (patent office) and parliamentary government.
You sir, have just explained "the American Way" to us all!
To be honest, I would love to have a switch in google that excludes blogs. Given the way Google works and the culture of linking to and fro between many different blogs, sometimes (another annoying feature of google) an innocuous search on "Talmudic discourses" will produce a raging Anti-Semitic diatribe in a blog. I think that person has a right to post such stuff, but I wish I could filter on it to get to what I am looking for. "Talmudic discourse -blogs." Yes, currently the search is not producing the blog I saw the first time. Grrrrrrr.
Knoppix is sweet but a little eclectic. Don't need a hard drive with the latest, just a USB memory stick for /home.
And the sick thing of all this is that while we Americans laud "choice" and "competition," teeny-tiny countries like Slovenia have 5 providers for a 2-million head market. Calls are dirt cheap (often free for intra-provider) and coverage is amazing. When you go into a Mobitel shop, you get help and clear, understandable plans like "calls are 10 tolars a minute and one tolar Mobitel to Mobitel. You don't even have to get a plan and still have a full featured phone (SMS, voicemail, bank account access, web, etc.) using prepaid.
Here in Tennessee, you are saddled with shit coverage. I can stand on one side of my yard and not get a signal with line-of-sight to the tower but go in the basement and it comes right up. You are saddled with shit sales support. Going to a Verizon or Cingular shop is like stepping back into the Ottoman Empire. You are saddled with equally Byzantine plans. 400 anytime minutes with rollover and 1000 nights and weekend minutes for $49.95. Get bill: $219. What? See you called between 1830 and 1700 on a Tuesday. Well, if you read the teeny-tiny print on the contract you'd see we reserve the right to not honor our agreement during that time if market rates for long-distance are not beneficial to the aggregate good of our customer base. What about my rollover minutes? Sorry, sir. You have to use those all up by the end of each quarter or they are lost.
Put pistol in mouth. Pull trigger.
This is non-sense to the point of being a wonderfully crafted troll.
Let's take RedHat8.0. My mom, who is an e-mailer of Proustian proportions, comes to visit. "Can I check my mail?" So I added an account for her on my workstation. She said "So this is Linux?" I got distracted for a second and by time I got back to being instructive she had Mozilla opened and was looking at some silly ass powerpoint some friend sent along in OO. This is a person who calls all technical matters "thingies."
Of course, that's not the majority of users, isn't scientific, yada, yada.... Let's not even get on to Mandrake, which is, by far, the easiest OS install ever. Sure if you have some odd ball hardware, it can get hairy, but it is so much better than a vanilla XP on a Dell laptop.
Here's the problem: sure, microsoft can try to EE&E or market the hell out of whatever bloatware shitbomb they foist on my poor mother, but Google is more than a search engine, it is a verb. It is a fast-loading, fast-searching, cultural icon. Microsoft has to deal with that monster first.
Can't find that on the website. Linkage?
I didn't say that. I am pointing out that it really isn't as significant to society as one might think. That a society would consider it significant is indicative of the how that society is constructed. The significance merely reinforces the construction.
TIME
Sorry, I see this so much in undergraduate papers, that it is a Pavlovian response to ask exactly when time began.