God! What PLANET are you people from? Have you NEVER heard anything about UNIONS? This is precisely the point of UNIONS. They are GOOD, they are RIGHT, they are on your side. The company (any company) is not sacrosanct with the right to do anything, demand anything, from its employees. You have rights and unions work to protect those rights.
How is the exploitation and abuse of workers today, regardless of the enterprise (hi tech is not magically apart or separate), OK and not deserving protection by unionization but the abuse of yesteryear, often the SAME TYPE OF ABUSE/EXPLOITATION, was properly addressed by unions? You illogical, business-worshipping fools and hypocrits.
Workers, regardless of the enterprise, gain leverage and protection of their rights, improving the lot of ALL of you, vs the excesses of management demands by unionization. It is democratic (vote-based) and protective (you get some protection for financial loss during prolonged strikes). You are also working for your greater, collective good. Better pay/equal pay for equal work. Reasonable hours w/fair, reasonable, and just compensation for overtime, and protection from retaliation by management.
What a load of overprivaledged, money-worshipping (money = right), screw-the-worker people you all are.
Your dad had a case against the company then. It is illegal to fire people for seeking to unionize. Organizing a union, or trying to, is fully legal and protected.
Employers are NOT god! The tactic of walk-out is as old as the labor movement and is a valid response to unreasonable demands from management. They do NOT get to demand whatever they want on their whim. They have to take the human factor into account, as well as fairness. A 'strike' is a valid tool...when other forms of trying to address the problem fails. It should not be the first response but it should certainly be a response. It is not unprofessional to go on 'strike', it is a right. You would be better served to form a union and have an official organization to watch over the rights of the workers vs the over-exploitation by management, which is what management will ALWAYS attempt.
Unions are just as relevant today as they were in the 30's. You can be just as screwed by god-complex management talking heads today as you could then.
Spelling correction: (clue train note: this is called a "strick" and it is classic union tactic that frickin' WORKS). should be (clue train note: this is called a "strike" and it is classic union tactic that frickin' WORKS).
Sheesh. This is precisely the point of labor unions that too many here seem to hold such low regard for...or worse, state that they are no longer relevant or needed. Bullshit!
Worker exploitation (in the form of demanding long, nasty hours, poor compensation, no job security, etc) is precisely why unions are STILL needed every bit as much as they used to. Temp workers should unionize. Tech workers should unionize. This gives you exactly what the scenario depicts. Your department is getting screwed, you are getting screwed, so you collectively walk off the job to force reason back into the heads of management. You are just better protected by unions under the walk-out scenario, etc, than by just a collective bunch of yahoos deciding to leave. The latter has a higher chance of blowing up in your face while the former provides you more leverage and some protection from loss-of-pay during the walk-out (clue train note: this is called a "strick" and it is classic union tactic that frickin' WORKS).
It was immoral because you don't steal from the poor to give to the rich. EVER. It was stupid because a number of nobel prize winning economists declare it is bogus and wont do squat for the economy - it merely makes the rich richer (which increases the disparity between upper and middle and lower classes). This WILL ultimately lead to revolution. It was this sort of privaleged, super-rich disparity that helped drive the French Revolution and has caused violence and turmoil in virtually any and all societies in which it occurs. You CANNOT have a stable social structure with a super-rich privaledged class and a heavily burdened and exploited working class. It WILL blow up in your face.
The cut was stupid because what it WILL do is explosively balloon the national debt beyond anything in world history. It will screw each and every one of us. Some of you in the slashdot crowd will get to see it screw your parents. A stable society will provide for the common health (basic healthcare for all), a safety net (it is destabilizing to have starving people dying in the streets while trust-funders drive around in limos and say "let them eat cake."). You want to destroy everything in your society? Keep giving and giving to the wealthiest and keep screwing the lower classes. This IS class warfare, class warfare is NOT a dirty word, it simply is. It does not serve society to feed into the war by firing all your shots at the more numerous middle and lower classes while engendering a sense of superiority and grand entitlement in those who happen to inherit disparate and needless amounts of wealth through no good of their own. Most of what CEOs and the like do is NOT worth the money they give themselves.
You'd never make it as a scientist. Lab notebooks are written, period. If you cannot write legibly, then all your research is for naught. You lab notebook is critical - essential to prove you did the work you claim to, providing a "recipe" for the research that gets you the results you publish. In actuality, the are legal documents. PDAs, tablet PCs and standard PCs are not valid replacements for lab notebooks...handwritten notebooks.
It is dangerous to teach people/kids to be overdependent on computers to do virtually everything. Technology fails. Computers fail. Power fails. There can and will come a time when they will need to do things and technology will fail them and they will be left with nothing because they never learned how to do things without a computer, keyboard, or pda.
It is one thing to trivialize computers, but it is downright dangerous and just plain stupid to teach overdependence on technology. If you can't deal with the simple tools, then you are truly and thoroughly hosed when it fails you (natural disaster, war, terrorism, whatever...something can and will bring it all down around you at some point).
Will not, and does not work. Local paper had an Op Ed piece written by a local CEO. He indicated that the tax cut he would be getting vs that of his secretary. She made a pittance and he made millions. His tax cut was a whopping $800k+, her's a mere $400+/-. He indicated that this extra money to him would not do any good, that it was tossing more money his way, money he simply didn't need, and it would in no way boost the economy or benefit anyone like his secretary.
It's nice to see that some people who are rich actually accept that they do not need more, that there comes a point when more money becomes pointless and wont improve their lives (nor anyone else's) and that there are better ways to shape taxes so as to directly benefit those who will actually spend/need the money vs those who already have anything/everything they want. Hell, even at a 50% tax, they would STILL be rich and STILL be able to afford pretty much any unnecessary luxury (which doesn't help the economy) that they could before. Greed is a failing. Greed is an evil. Greed is a character failing. Greed is ugly. No exceptions.
Wont work at Purdue for their wlan network. It uses VPN and to get on you require a uid and pword. Nothing useful is passed in the clear at all. Sniffing the network gets you squat but encrypted (VLAN) packets.
Something critical appears to be missing from the costs side...the T1 lines. You mention that you have them with a 3rd on the way, ignoring that these cost a good deal more per month than any of the other costs you outlined. This gives the naive a false impression as to the real costs of providing an internet connection (and why free as in beer just isn't reasonable...SOMEONE is paying to get the connection into the backbone).
Thus, you need to not only recoup the monthly (minor) costs of your tower rent, man hours for support, etc, but also your T1 costs. What is the minimal number of customers you need to break even, let alone make a profit? And at what price point? You'd need a lot of people if you only charge $10/month, half as many at $20/month, etc, etc. What are the reasonable targets given your real costs and desired goals?
I would LOVE to dump my bulky CRT and save desktop realestate with a flat-screen (assuming the price is less than my mortgage) but I do like to play games now and again. Though I have looked at and priced some nice flat LCD screens I end up blowing it off because I worry about the response time with games.
Are there any flat screens out there yet that are actually not too bad to use when playing a game (RTCW, Unreal II, etc)? It seems a waste to go for a nice video card and then saddle oneself with an otherwise nice flat screen only to lose virtually all the benefits of your pricey video card.
And then there are those Dells I see advertised in commercials with flat screens. I keep thinking, "I KNOW they have good vid cards in there (for gaming) yet they are sticking a flat screen in the package too. What are they thinking?"
You know, I have generally had a rather negative view of freenet and its users, seeing it as a purposely-designed tool for the specific violation of various laws (child porn and warez distribution) which are legitimate. Now, with stuff like DMCA and private, corporate police sniffing around I begin to appreciate some of its benefits.
I have never been much of a P2P user - I am just not driven by music (I'm not a high school kid anymore with silly, misplaced priorities) but I have, on rare occassions, downloaded a music file now and again. Perhaps I had a tune in my head and couldn't remember quite how it went or what the words were, so I'd do a look-see on gnutella or equivalent and download it.
Now comes shit like the Patriot Act, DMCA, Patriot Act part deu, ad infinitum and suddenly I want the option available to access data and files in an untraceable fashion. Not because I am some slimball, snotnosed kid who thinks he is entitled to anything but because I want the OPTION of accessing data that something like the Patriot Act might find "interesting"...or because I want to be able to download the rare mp3 or whatnot of a single song that has hung up in my head for the moment without being threatened by an illegitimate corporate police force. Hell, things like DMCA and the Patriot Act almost make me want to access things "they" would rather I not just as a means of rebellion, to tweak "the man's" nose. I think I'll take another look at freenet just in case.
See what stupid and even dangerous and unConstitutional/anti-Constitutional laws do? They turn simple, good citizens like myself into quasi-criminals because corporations and aspects of government have overstepped themselves.
To bastardize a quote from Star Wars, "The tighter you squeeze, the more (people) will slip through your fingers."
How do you know it was a RIAA bot? Are there known IP addresses or did the behavior of the app clue you in? I'm curious so I'd like to know. What does their probing entail (a tcp scan first?). Depending on the answer(s) I may just have to create some iptables filters to a priori block anything from RIAA from sniffing around my system.
Wha?! Repeat after me: "Nothing lasts forever. NOTHING!". M$, Apple, IBM, whatever, are not eternal. No country, society, political movement, party, etc, lasts forever. Far from it. Accepting this fact is the first step. The second step is to mitigate against it in the arena of software and public information (ultimately, this means ALL government data). It is perfectly OK for government to use propriatory software for its purposes (so long as it is the most cost-effective means to do whatever) but any data/information generated and stored MUST be in a format that is accessible to future generations of CITIZENS who OWN the government and its data even if/when the corporation/entity that generated the software the government used is no more (M$ WILL fade away, as will any and all other corporations in time, to be replaced with new entities). It is unacceptable that data generated now in government in some M$ format WILL become unavailable to future generations once M$ fades into oblivion or even sooner, when the format fades into oblivion. This is the very same problem that affects long-term data storage. There is NO replacement for paper storage, which can last millenia (proven in practice), for long-term, accessible archiving. CDs will be unusable/unreadable in 10 or so years, having faded into the dustbin of history. The same will happen to the next storage method. This same problem applies to ALL digital data storage file formats, but particularly those of propriatory form. An open format with full documentation available to all will ensure access to a file format containing the PEOPLE'S data (anything generated by government) regardless of the fortunes of the great 'god' business.
Stop worshiping business and "the market" because it will only fuck you and everyone else in the end. The government is a special case and cannot be permitted to hide/lose data by using storage means and file formats that are GAURANTEED to disappear within a generation. It is not the government's data to lose, it doesn't have that right. It DOES have the responsibility to ensure its data is available to the PEOPLE in perpetuity.
No, you lose freedom when you lose the information that the government (which belongs to everyone) produces/compiles. Since the data generated by a government is the property, ultimately, of the people governed, it is IMPERATIVE that the information be in a format that is "forever" accessible. Using a propriatory, market-based format is both short-sighted and self-defeating. Like it or not, Microsoft will NOT dominate forever. The *.doc format will not always be there and not always available. Even M$'s XML format is closed and propriatory since it merely hooks into secret libs and formats in the operating system. This is fine for some functions, though also damaging to future generations of archeologists who wont be able to get anything out of a then long-defunct storage format. It is absolutely unacceptable for a government.
Use whatever software product you wish to generate the data, forms, files, and whatnot, but the format that government data is stored in (from that software) must be made to be in a format accessible in perpetuity REGARDLESS of whether the original supplier of a software package continues to exist. The government has no right to take data away from me, my children, my grandchildren, etc, by shortsightedly locking that information into a format that is absolutely gauranteed to be no more in the future. No corporation, no person, no legacy, no political movement, no political party, no country, lasts forever. The data generated by government must accept this reality and accomodate it. This means open format data for all government documents. This COULD mean M$ format if, and ONLY if, they fully publish and freely license the spec for it. They can keep a propriatory spec too, for individuals and corporations to use if they wish, but the government must require that whatever format IT uses, is open, fully documented and explained, and freely usable by any and all.
If the dumpster is up near the garage, or otherwise clearly on a person's property, then to access the dumpster requires tresspass. On the other hand, home owners do NOT own the property from the sidewalk to the street, though they are responsible for maintaining the grass or whatnot that may reside between the sidewalk and the street. So, if a dumpster has been moved up so that the sanitation guys can get to it, it is no on any private property and accessing it cannot be tresspass (anymore than someone walking down the sidewalk across your front yard is tresspassing).
You are completely free to go to a dump and rummage, taking what strikes your fancy. It doesn't belong to anyone except whosoever decides to keep "your" trash. You gave up possession and someone else took it up.
Hey, watch it Buster! If Europe and the Russkies (and the Chi-nee and Japs) get too uppity, it will hinder our ability (the USofA) to push right in and do what ever the hell we want to whomever we want. That is obviously not good (for us Mericans, who are all that matter really). It's our way or the highway...or perhaps it is, it's our way or be on the receiving end of sanctions at best or at the receiving end of a GPS bomb at worst.
Uppity non-Mericans...sheesh. You're either with us or against us (in ALL things).
No good. If you drive out-of-state on vacation or to visit friends/relatives, etc, you get taxed for that out-of-state mileage? Hell no. Mileage within a state's borders is fair game but anything beyond is not.
No. The children of a "creator" didn't do squat but spurt out the creator's penis or get released from the creator's ovaries. They contributed nothing and get nothing. 14 years. Period. The Founders had it right, keep it the way they intended. Any extensions are bullcrap nonsense.
That little anti-social episode has put you on Asscrack's...err, ASHCROFT's watch list as a potential terrorist. You are obviously a disgruntled american and just THIS close to having your citizenship revoked so you can be held indefinitely and brutalized.
Was your little anti-social foray with the latest software toy worth it? Hmmm?
PS...if you aren't 'mericun you are most certainly on a watch list now.
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God! What PLANET are you people from? Have you NEVER heard anything about UNIONS? This is precisely the point of UNIONS. They are GOOD, they are RIGHT, they are on your side. The company (any company) is not sacrosanct with the right to do anything, demand anything, from its employees. You have rights and unions work to protect those rights.
How is the exploitation and abuse of workers today, regardless of the enterprise (hi tech is not magically apart or separate), OK and not deserving protection by unionization but the abuse of yesteryear, often the SAME TYPE OF ABUSE/EXPLOITATION, was properly addressed by unions? You illogical, business-worshipping fools and hypocrits.
Workers, regardless of the enterprise, gain leverage and protection of their rights, improving the lot of ALL of you, vs the excesses of management demands by unionization. It is democratic (vote-based) and protective (you get some protection for financial loss during prolonged strikes). You are also working for your greater, collective good. Better pay/equal pay for equal work. Reasonable hours w/fair, reasonable, and just compensation for overtime, and protection from retaliation by management.
What a load of overprivaledged, money-worshipping (money = right), screw-the-worker people you all are.
Your dad had a case against the company then. It is illegal to fire people for seeking to unionize. Organizing a union, or trying to, is fully legal and protected.
Employers are NOT god! The tactic of walk-out is as old as the labor movement and is a valid response to unreasonable demands from management. They do NOT get to demand whatever they want on their whim. They have to take the human factor into account, as well as fairness. A 'strike' is a valid tool...when other forms of trying to address the problem fails. It should not be the first response but it should certainly be a response. It is not unprofessional to go on 'strike', it is a right. You would be better served to form a union and have an official organization to watch over the rights of the workers vs the over-exploitation by management, which is what management will ALWAYS attempt.
Unions are just as relevant today as they were in the 30's. You can be just as screwed by god-complex management talking heads today as you could then.
Spelling correction:
(clue train note: this is called a "strick" and it is classic union tactic that frickin' WORKS). should be (clue train note: this is called a "strike" and it is classic union tactic that frickin' WORKS).
Sheesh. This is precisely the point of labor unions that too many here seem to hold such low regard for...or worse, state that they are no longer relevant or needed. Bullshit!
Worker exploitation (in the form of demanding long, nasty hours, poor compensation, no job security, etc) is precisely why unions are STILL needed every bit as much as they used to. Temp workers should unionize. Tech workers should unionize. This gives you exactly what the scenario depicts. Your department is getting screwed, you are getting screwed, so you collectively walk off the job to force reason back into the heads of management. You are just better protected by unions under the walk-out scenario, etc, than by just a collective bunch of yahoos deciding to leave. The latter has a higher chance of blowing up in your face while the former provides you more leverage and some protection from loss-of-pay during the walk-out (clue train note: this is called a "strick" and it is classic union tactic that frickin' WORKS).
How does one go about embedding quicktime or, I suppose, mediaplayer in a word doc?
Can you embed mplayer in OO, which CAN do QT just fine?
It was immoral because you don't steal from the poor to give to the rich. EVER. It was stupid because a number of nobel prize winning economists declare it is bogus and wont do squat for the economy - it merely makes the rich richer (which increases the disparity between upper and middle and lower classes). This WILL ultimately lead to revolution. It was this sort of privaleged, super-rich disparity that helped drive the French Revolution and has caused violence and turmoil in virtually any and all societies in which it occurs. You CANNOT have a stable social structure with a super-rich privaledged class and a heavily burdened and exploited working class. It WILL blow up in your face.
The cut was stupid because what it WILL do is explosively balloon the national debt beyond anything in world history. It will screw each and every one of us. Some of you in the slashdot crowd will get to see it screw your parents. A stable society will provide for the common health (basic healthcare for all), a safety net (it is destabilizing to have starving people dying in the streets while trust-funders drive around in limos and say "let them eat cake."). You want to destroy everything in your society? Keep giving and giving to the wealthiest and keep screwing the lower classes. This IS class warfare, class warfare is NOT a dirty word, it simply is. It does not serve society to feed into the war by firing all your shots at the more numerous middle and lower classes while engendering a sense of superiority and grand entitlement in those who happen to inherit disparate and needless amounts of wealth through no good of their own. Most of what CEOs and the like do is NOT worth the money they give themselves.
You'd never make it as a scientist. Lab notebooks are written, period. If you cannot write legibly, then all your research is for naught. You lab notebook is critical - essential to prove you did the work you claim to, providing a "recipe" for the research that gets you the results you publish. In actuality, the are legal documents. PDAs, tablet PCs and standard PCs are not valid replacements for lab notebooks...handwritten notebooks.
It is dangerous to teach people/kids to be overdependent on computers to do virtually everything. Technology fails. Computers fail. Power fails. There can and will come a time when they will need to do things and technology will fail them and they will be left with nothing because they never learned how to do things without a computer, keyboard, or pda.
It is one thing to trivialize computers, but it is downright dangerous and just plain stupid to teach overdependence on technology. If you can't deal with the simple tools, then you are truly and thoroughly hosed when it fails you (natural disaster, war, terrorism, whatever...something can and will bring it all down around you at some point).
Will not, and does not work. Local paper had an Op Ed piece written by a local CEO. He indicated that the tax cut he would be getting vs that of his secretary. She made a pittance and he made millions. His tax cut was a whopping $800k+, her's a mere $400+/-. He indicated that this extra money to him would not do any good, that it was tossing more money his way, money he simply didn't need, and it would in no way boost the economy or benefit anyone like his secretary.
It's nice to see that some people who are rich actually accept that they do not need more, that there comes a point when more money becomes pointless and wont improve their lives (nor anyone else's) and that there are better ways to shape taxes so as to directly benefit those who will actually spend/need the money vs those who already have anything/everything they want. Hell, even at a 50% tax, they would STILL be rich and STILL be able to afford pretty much any unnecessary luxury (which doesn't help the economy) that they could before. Greed is a failing. Greed is an evil. Greed is a character failing. Greed is ugly. No exceptions.
Wont work at Purdue for their wlan network. It uses VPN and to get on you require a uid and pword. Nothing useful is passed in the clear at all. Sniffing the network gets you squat but encrypted (VLAN) packets.
Something critical appears to be missing from the costs side...the T1 lines. You mention that you have them with a 3rd on the way, ignoring that these cost a good deal more per month than any of the other costs you outlined. This gives the naive a false impression as to the real costs of providing an internet connection (and why free as in beer just isn't reasonable...SOMEONE is paying to get the connection into the backbone).
Thus, you need to not only recoup the monthly (minor) costs of your tower rent, man hours for support, etc, but also your T1 costs. What is the minimal number of customers you need to break even, let alone make a profit? And at what price point? You'd need a lot of people if you only charge $10/month, half as many at $20/month, etc, etc. What are the reasonable targets given your real costs and desired goals?
I would LOVE to dump my bulky CRT and save desktop realestate with a flat-screen (assuming the price is less than my mortgage) but I do like to play games now and again. Though I have looked at and priced some nice flat LCD screens I end up blowing it off because I worry about the response time with games.
Are there any flat screens out there yet that are actually not too bad to use when playing a game (RTCW, Unreal II, etc)? It seems a waste to go for a nice video card and then saddle oneself with an otherwise nice flat screen only to lose virtually all the benefits of your pricey video card.
And then there are those Dells I see advertised in commercials with flat screens. I keep thinking, "I KNOW they have good vid cards in there (for gaming) yet they are sticking a flat screen in the package too. What are they thinking?"
Am I wrong on this?
You know, I have generally had a rather negative view of freenet and its users, seeing it as a purposely-designed tool for the specific violation of various laws (child porn and warez distribution) which are legitimate. Now, with stuff like DMCA and private, corporate police sniffing around I begin to appreciate some of its benefits.
I have never been much of a P2P user - I am just not driven by music (I'm not a high school kid anymore with silly, misplaced priorities) but I have, on rare occassions, downloaded a music file now and again. Perhaps I had a tune in my head and couldn't remember quite how it went or what the words were, so I'd do a look-see on gnutella or equivalent and download it.
Now comes shit like the Patriot Act, DMCA, Patriot Act part deu, ad infinitum and suddenly I want the option available to access data and files in an untraceable fashion. Not because I am some slimball, snotnosed kid who thinks he is entitled to anything but because I want the OPTION of accessing data that something like the Patriot Act might find "interesting"...or because I want to be able to download the rare mp3 or whatnot of a single song that has hung up in my head for the moment without being threatened by an illegitimate corporate police force. Hell, things like DMCA and the Patriot Act almost make me want to access things "they" would rather I not just as a means of rebellion, to tweak "the man's" nose. I think I'll take another look at freenet just in case.
See what stupid and even dangerous and unConstitutional/anti-Constitutional laws do? They turn simple, good citizens like myself into quasi-criminals because corporations and aspects of government have overstepped themselves.
To bastardize a quote from Star Wars, "The tighter you squeeze, the more (people) will slip through your fingers."
How do you know it was a RIAA bot? Are there known IP addresses or did the behavior of the app clue you in? I'm curious so I'd like to know. What does their probing entail (a tcp scan first?). Depending on the answer(s) I may just have to create some iptables filters to a priori block anything from RIAA from sniffing around my system.
Wha?! Repeat after me: "Nothing lasts forever. NOTHING!". M$, Apple, IBM, whatever, are not eternal. No country, society, political movement, party, etc, lasts forever. Far from it. Accepting this fact is the first step. The second step is to mitigate against it in the arena of software and public information (ultimately, this means ALL government data). It is perfectly OK for government to use propriatory software for its purposes (so long as it is the most cost-effective means to do whatever) but any data/information generated and stored MUST be in a format that is accessible to future generations of CITIZENS who OWN the government and its data even if/when the corporation/entity that generated the software the government used is no more (M$ WILL fade away, as will any and all other corporations in time, to be replaced with new entities). It is unacceptable that data generated now in government in some M$ format WILL become unavailable to future generations once M$ fades into oblivion or even sooner, when the format fades into oblivion. This is the very same problem that affects long-term data storage. There is NO replacement for paper storage, which can last millenia (proven in practice), for long-term, accessible archiving. CDs will be unusable/unreadable in 10 or so years, having faded into the dustbin of history. The same will happen to the next storage method. This same problem applies to ALL digital data storage file formats, but particularly those of propriatory form. An open format with full documentation available to all will ensure access to a file format containing the PEOPLE'S data (anything generated by government) regardless of the fortunes of the great 'god' business.
Stop worshiping business and "the market" because it will only fuck you and everyone else in the end. The government is a special case and cannot be permitted to hide/lose data by using storage means and file formats that are GAURANTEED to disappear within a generation. It is not the government's data to lose, it doesn't have that right. It DOES have the responsibility to ensure its data is available to the PEOPLE in perpetuity.
THAT is the only consideration.
No, you lose freedom when you lose the information that the government (which belongs to everyone) produces/compiles. Since the data generated by a government is the property, ultimately, of the people governed, it is IMPERATIVE that the information be in a format that is "forever" accessible. Using a propriatory, market-based format is both short-sighted and self-defeating. Like it or not, Microsoft will NOT dominate forever. The *.doc format will not always be there and not always available. Even M$'s XML format is closed and propriatory since it merely hooks into secret libs and formats in the operating system. This is fine for some functions, though also damaging to future generations of archeologists who wont be able to get anything out of a then long-defunct storage format. It is absolutely unacceptable for a government.
Use whatever software product you wish to generate the data, forms, files, and whatnot, but the format that government data is stored in (from that software) must be made to be in a format accessible in perpetuity REGARDLESS of whether the original supplier of a software package continues to exist. The government has no right to take data away from me, my children, my grandchildren, etc, by shortsightedly locking that information into a format that is absolutely gauranteed to be no more in the future. No corporation, no person, no legacy, no political movement, no political party, no country, lasts forever. The data generated by government must accept this reality and accomodate it. This means open format data for all government documents. This COULD mean M$ format if, and ONLY if, they fully publish and freely license the spec for it. They can keep a propriatory spec too, for individuals and corporations to use if they wish, but the government must require that whatever format IT uses, is open, fully documented and explained, and freely usable by any and all.
Such would enhance freedom, not take it away.
If the dumpster is up near the garage, or otherwise clearly on a person's property, then to access the dumpster requires tresspass. On the other hand, home owners do NOT own the property from the sidewalk to the street, though they are responsible for maintaining the grass or whatnot that may reside between the sidewalk and the street. So, if a dumpster has been moved up so that the sanitation guys can get to it, it is no on any private property and accessing it cannot be tresspass (anymore than someone walking down the sidewalk across your front yard is tresspassing).
You are completely free to go to a dump and rummage, taking what strikes your fancy. It doesn't belong to anyone except whosoever decides to keep "your" trash. You gave up possession and someone else took it up.
Hey, watch it Buster! If Europe and the Russkies (and the Chi-nee and Japs) get too uppity, it will hinder our ability (the USofA) to push right in and do what ever the hell we want to whomever we want. That is obviously not good (for us Mericans, who are all that matter really). It's our way or the highway...or perhaps it is, it's our way or be on the receiving end of sanctions at best or at the receiving end of a GPS bomb at worst.
Uppity non-Mericans...sheesh. You're either with us or against us (in ALL things).
No good. If you drive out-of-state on vacation or to visit friends/relatives, etc, you get taxed for that out-of-state mileage? Hell no. Mileage within a state's borders is fair game but anything beyond is not.
No. The children of a "creator" didn't do squat but spurt out the creator's penis or get released from the creator's ovaries. They contributed nothing and get nothing. 14 years. Period. The Founders had it right, keep it the way they intended. Any extensions are bullcrap nonsense.
That little anti-social episode has put you on Asscrack's...err, ASHCROFT's watch list as a potential terrorist. You are obviously a disgruntled american and just THIS close to having your citizenship revoked so you can be held indefinitely and brutalized.
Was your little anti-social foray with the latest software toy worth it? Hmmm?
PS...if you aren't 'mericun you are most certainly on a watch list now.
Hey, on the internet aren't we ALL just as close as a few keystrokes? It's working as designed, don't worry about it.