You object to signing a contact with an entity representing your workers, and dealing with employees according to rules set out in this contract.. I suspect you wouldn't think twice about signing a similar contract with suppliers or customers.
My only conclusion is that you prefer to deal with employees individually because you can more easily manipulate them by doing so. You enjoy the power of being the owner and being able to play favorites, taking advantage of the inherent weakness in an individual's bargaining power and the lack of any enforceable written criteria governing your rule. You accept the occasional loss of an employee able to find better conditions because you know you will always find a replacement.
Of all the inputs to your business - labor, materials, facilities - only labor is to be forced to deal from a deliberately weakened perspective.
To motivate a dog to do your bidding requires something more tangible (likely edible), while humans will accept vague promises of an abstract future reward.
Wouldn't some big company like Target have someone on staff who knows how to firewall off a network just for the HVAC? Huh? Huh?
They probably have several people who can do that. It requires some expertise but not a lot.
Of course they have people who CAN do that. The better question is - do any of those people have the political clout to require Target to spend money and inconvenience managers and "essential" vendors to prevent a "theoretical" security attack.
Understanding the 19th century telegraph system helps understand our current global internet.
I found "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers" a fascinating read, amazing what was done 150 years ago.
Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article:
The book describes to general readers how some of the uses of telegraph in commercial, military, and social communication were, in a sense, analogous to modern uses of the internet. A few rather unusual stories are related, about couples who fell in love and even married over the wires, criminals who were caught through the telegraph, and so on.
The culture which developed between telegraph operators also had some rather unexpected affinities with the modern Internet. Both cultures made or make use of complex text coding and abbreviated language slang, both required network security experts, and both attracted criminals who used the networks to commit fraud, hack private communications, and send unwanted messages.
We had e-commerce (code books for secure banking transaction via telegraph), hackers, and skilled technical workers with their own language and culture.
Telegraph operators even had their own equivalent to cell-phone text message abbreviations.
I bet many parts of the fridge were made in the PRC, a country formerly renowned for large numbers of starving and hungry people.
First world hipsters buying IP-enabled fridges have allowed many of those formerly staring Chinese peasants to become part of the world's middle class.
Isn't it immoral to starve people when you don't need to?
I think that you will hear the counter argument that it is immoral to tax some people to provide subsidized food to others. That not having enough money to buy adequate food is due solely to bad\personal choices that government has no business re-mediating.
The argument is that people who make the wrong choices did so freely, and deserve to go hungry or die.
This, combined with the highest income inequality in the industrialized world, is the legacy of 40 years of anti-government policies, breaking trade unions, and reducing taxes on the wealthy.
The roll-back of the New Deal has produced this, not the imposition of whatever you call "socialism"
At the expense of those freedoms that matter to most people:
The Economist Intelligence Unit classifies Singapore as a "hybrid" country, with authoritarian and democratic elements. Freedom House does not consider Singapore an "electoral democracy" and ranks the country as "partly free". Reporters Without Borders ranked Singapore 140th out of 167 countries in its 2005 Press Freedom Index.[2]
It has also been alleged that the PAP employs censorship, gerrymandering and the filing of civil suits against the opposition for libel or slander to impede their success. Several former and present members of the opposition, including Francis Seow, J.B. Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan perceive the Singaporean courts as favourable towards the government and the PAP due to a lack of separation of powers. There are however three cases in which opposition leader Chiam See Tong sued PAP ministers for defamation and successfully obtained damages before trial.[3]......the PAP has also consistently rejected liberal democratic values, which it typifies as Western and states that there should not be a 'one-size-fits-all' solution to a democracy. Laws restricting the freedom of speech are justified by claims that they are intended to prohibit speech that may breed ill will or cause disharmony within Singapore's multiracial, multi-religious society. For example, in September 2005, three bloggers were convicted of sedition for posting racist remarks targeting minorities.[7] Some offences can lead to heavy fines or caning and there are laws which allow capital punishment in Singapore for first-degree murder and drug trafficking. Amnesty International has criticised Singapore for having "possibly the highest execution rate in the world" per capita.[8]
For half a century, Crypto AG, a Swiss company located in Zug, has sold to more than 100 countries the encryption machines their officials rely upon to exchange their most sensitive economic, diplomatic and military messages. Crypto AG was founded in 1952 by the legendary (Russian born) Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin. During World War II, Hagelin sold 140,000 of his machine to the US Army.
"In the meantime, the Crypto AG has built up long standing cooperative relations with customers in 130 countries," states a prospectus of the company. The home page of the company Web site says, "Crypto AG is the preferred top-security partner for civilian and military authorities worldwide. Security is our business and will always remain our business."
And for all those years, US eavesdroppers could read these messages without the least difficulty. A decade after the end of WWII, the NSA, also known as No Such Agency, had rigged the Crypto AG machines in various ways according to the targeted countries. It is probably no exaggeration to state that this 20th century version of the "Trojan horse" is quite likely the greatest sting in modern history.
I set up a Facebook account for my dog. Female, 5 years old so I figured that was 35 years old in human years. Neutered, so obviously single and never married.
Amazing the number of invites she gets from lesbian singles.
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You object to signing a contact with an entity representing your workers, and dealing with employees according to rules set out in this contract.. I suspect you wouldn't think twice about signing a similar contract with suppliers or customers.
My only conclusion is that you prefer to deal with employees individually because you can more easily manipulate them by doing so. You enjoy the power of being the owner and being able to play favorites, taking advantage of the inherent weakness in an individual's bargaining power and the lack of any enforceable written criteria governing your rule. You accept the occasional loss of an employee able to find better conditions because you know you will always find a replacement.
Of all the inputs to your business - labor, materials, facilities - only labor is to be forced to deal from a deliberately weakened perspective.
You must be a joy to work for.
No dog ever accepted stock options as a reward.
To motivate a dog to do your bidding requires something more tangible (likely edible), while humans will accept vague promises of an abstract future reward.
They probably have several people who can do that. It requires some expertise but not a lot.
Of course they have people who CAN do that. The better question is - do any of those people have the political clout to require Target to spend money and inconvenience managers and "essential" vendors to prevent a "theoretical" security attack.
If you think there is something wrong with historically unprecedented income and wealth inequality, if you fear for the future of democracy when 85 individuals control more wealth than 3.5 billion people, if you are alarmed at the influence of this wealth on politics (to the point where a single individual can bankroll an entire presidential campaign, then you are a Nazi.
No further discussion necessary.
A few individuals have vandalized buses, therefore an entire subject is off limits.
Teaching ethics is like teaching a dog to whistle?
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Understanding the 19th century telegraph system helps understand our current global internet.
I found "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers" a fascinating read, amazing what was done 150 years ago.
Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article:
We had e-commerce (code books for secure banking transaction via telegraph), hackers, and skilled technical workers with their own language and culture.
Telegraph operators even had their own equivalent to cell-phone text message abbreviations.
As far as OpenBSD is concerned, "the general usability of the system in everyday settings" is the bottom priority.
No, in fact the lack of general usability is a goal OpenBSD strives for.
Be grateful they aren't still using punched paper tape for installs.
Similar to how the English Crown supported piracy against the Spanish in the 17th and 18th centuries?
I bet many parts of the fridge were made in the PRC, a country formerly renowned for large numbers of starving and hungry people.
First world hipsters buying IP-enabled fridges have allowed many of those formerly staring Chinese peasants to become part of the world's middle class.
When you don't work and get your income from the government (who gets its money from taxpayers) then there is no incentive to look for work.
When the consequence of unemployment is certain starvation, there no no incentive for any job to be better than slavery
I see Slashdot posters make up "facts" out of thin air, too.
Too bad so much of our public policy is based on these "facts".
Isn't it immoral to starve people when you don't need to?
I think that you will hear the counter argument that it is immoral to tax some people to provide subsidized food to others. That not having enough money to buy adequate food is due solely to bad\personal choices that government has no business re-mediating.
The argument is that people who make the wrong choices did so freely, and deserve to go hungry or die.
The rate of social mobility in the US is the second lowest in the industrialized world (after the UK). Many poorer, developing countries actually have higher rates of upward mobility:
"Social immobility erodes the American dream", Washington Post
"The Myth of the American Dream", CNN
This, combined with the highest income inequality in the industrialized world, is the legacy of 40 years of anti-government policies, breaking trade unions, and reducing taxes on the wealthy.
The roll-back of the New Deal has produced this, not the imposition of whatever you call "socialism"
"They also have greater economic freedoms..."
At the expense of those freedoms that matter to most people:
The mystery of the origin of the Indo-Europeans may be solved within the next 2 years , and yes I know Discover is not a peer reviewed journal.
The timeframe is correct for the supposed origin of indo europeans in Europe.
Does that mean I have canine DNA?
Now you will have to excuse me - I have some territory to mark
But did the Great Programmer use Agile or Waterfall?
Until we can know, this will be the source of great sectarian divides and shrill accusations of heresy
It's been done already:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/nsa_backdoors_i.html
Using strong words only lessens an argument for the weak minded.
Spoken like a true asshole.
No stronger words could be spoken
You obviously don't own a dog.
The plastic market bags are perfect for cleaning up after the pooch on walks.
If they banned supermarket bags, I'd have to pay for exactly the same thing - with no net gain in recyclables.
Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)
I think of this when I consider the whole concept of drones as used to murder inconvenient individuals.
Some day, someone else who does not see you as fully human will have control over the box.
"Applied Cryptography" used exactly this method when crypto algorithms were subject to export controls.
You couldn't export say the source code for DES, but you could include the source code in a book on crypto, as first amendment protections applied.
The first amendment even protected use of an OCR friendly font for the source code.
There were plenty of DoD specifically for ESPers at one point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
As long as you didn't mind staring at goats
After Sharknado, anything is possible
I set up a Facebook account for my dog. Female, 5 years old so I figured that was 35 years old in human years. Neutered, so obviously single and never married.
Amazing the number of invites she gets from lesbian singles.