Let's not forget that Actual child porn involving real children IS abuse, and results in permanent harm (both psychological and physical) to a child. This is something that any healthy society should strive to prevent.
The problem with our current laws is that the cases you describe are lumped together with cases of teenagers sending dirty pictures of themselves to their (girl/boy)friend. It's like stopping a bank robbery by nuking the entire city.
Silly americans and their megalomaniatic view of the world, (mod me flamebait) you guys are not the center of the world, nor the policemen of the nations.
I really don't think that the evidence supports your assertions. There is a difference between "are not" and "shouldn't be".
Times change, economic realities change and we now have institutions like OSHA. If all unions were to disappear tomorrow, we will not return to The Jungle.
Current events notwithstanding, in most businesses there are more jobs than qualified people to fill them. As long as employers must compete for employees then working conditions will naturally remain good.
Oh, absolutely agreed, I'm not a member of a union myself, don't see the advantage to me personally. I just don't like it when people start saying they're useless/abusive/evil, as they've done good in the past and continue to help people. Usually people in low paid and less skilled jobs, who need help more than me and my software engineer buddies.
The prime directive of a union is to keep as many people employed as possible, regardless of the business implications. In union shops you will typically have situations where a worker is restricted to doing only a part of a job so that two or three other people can do their parts. In fact, if a wrench-turner picks up a screwdriver he can be punished for performing someone else's job.
The money to pay for the excess employees' salaries and benefits must come from somewhere. It either comes from the customers in the form of higher prices, the employees in the form of lower wages or the owners in the form of lower profits.
Because of this, union shops can never compete fairly with non-union shops. All other things being equal, a non-union shop can sell its products for a lower price and generate a higher profit because it can use its workforce more efficiently.
So the unions appeal to the government for help because that's the only way they can survive.
fear in urban communities by gun toting thugs is a form of slavery
How exactly does removing guns from the law-abiding population correct this problem? How do you remove weapons (because you can robbed at knife- or baseball-bat- point too) from the criminals without destroying more freedom than you are gaining?
"We began working with Cisco in 2003 to help them establish a process for complying with our software licenses, and the initial changes were very promising," explained Brett Smith, licensing compliance engineer at the FSF. "Unfortunately, they never put in the effort that was necessary to finish the process, and now five years later we have still not seen a plan for compliance. As a result, we believe that legal action is the best way to restore the rights we grant to all users of our software."
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Apparently you haven't been listening.
The problem with our current laws is that the cases you describe are lumped together with cases of teenagers sending dirty pictures of themselves to their (girl/boy)friend. It's like stopping a bank robbery by nuking the entire city.
I really don't think that the evidence supports your assertions. There is a difference between "are not" and "shouldn't be".
The semiconductors and control circuitry used in power electronics these days are good enough that it really isn't a problem any more.
More like 5-7 depending on the combustion engine
Your engine can convert about 1/5 of the energy in that 1.3 gallons of gasoline into forward motion.
An electric propulsion system can convert 9/10 of the energy in the capacitor into forward motion.
So a better comparison would be about 6 gallons.
Most power lines are three-phase (no neutral)
Approximately 3000 amps. 460 volt/ 3 phase: about 830 amps.
"dropped anchor" is the new "weather balloon"
Unless, of course, they develop Mr Fusion
here
Or a dollar not spent on capital investments or R&D
And the reason that this does not actually happen in right-to-work states is?
Some states did and some states didn't
Exactly
Unions did a lot of great things for this country
in the past.
Times change, economic realities change and we now have institutions like OSHA. If all unions were to disappear tomorrow, we will not return to The Jungle.
Current events notwithstanding, in most businesses there are more jobs than qualified people to fill them. As long as employers must compete for employees then working conditions will naturally remain good.
In some US states (union) if a union is active in a shop then union membership is mandatory for all employees.
In other states (right to work), union membership is never mandatory.
Also organized crime and unions have never been very far apart.
The prime directive of a union is to keep as many people employed as possible, regardless of the business implications. In union shops you will typically have situations where a worker is restricted to doing only a part of a job so that two or three other people can do their parts. In fact, if a wrench-turner picks up a screwdriver he can be punished for performing someone else's job.
The money to pay for the excess employees' salaries and benefits must come from somewhere. It either comes from the customers in the form of higher prices, the employees in the form of lower wages or the owners in the form of lower profits.
Because of this, union shops can never compete fairly with non-union shops. All other things being equal, a non-union shop can sell its products for a lower price and generate a higher profit because it can use its workforce more efficiently.
So the unions appeal to the government for help because that's the only way they can survive.
-Summer Glau
Didn't you get the memo?
That should read:
How exactly does removing guns from the law-abiding population correct this problem? How do you remove weapons (because you can robbed at knife- or baseball-bat- point too) from the criminals without destroying more freedom than you are gaining?
You are correct, however that path has other destinations as well.
fixed that for you