Labor is a market, just like any market. The work that unskilled people do in a non-skill-requiring job is worth a certain amount. That dollar amount is the intersection of [whatever a company is willing to pay] and [whatever those people are willing to work for].
You can start a company, pay people whatever you think is fair. That is your right.
I cannot believe a sane person believes this neo-classical economic shit any more. Jesus, it's so simple. Every school kid should know by now that market allocation of resources has nothing to do with efficient market allocation of resources, not to mention just distribution. Cute how you segue into non-skill-requiring job to prop up your silly proposition. Would you care to draw the line for me between skill/non-skill? I thought not. So off we go, pay CEOs squillions and workers peanuts. Your mind is so colonised by shit that I wonder why I waste my time. FFS "the market". [throws hands in air in despair ]
I'm afraid the idea, often expressed in this discussion, of "that's what most people want" sells us short. The whole point of a smart search engine is to give me what I want. What I want is not what most want. The problem now with Google Search is that it has become a monopoly for all practical purposes (duckduckgo is a great alternative but it's market share is tiny and after the latest firefox disabled the ability to set it as the default search, that market share has dropped even more). So as a monopoly it has started to ignore its users. It has even wound back features that were previously useful. Most of us could quickly list 10 things it could do to improve its service. But until Watson or another alternative is viable, nothing will happen. My hope is that the next technological leap (perhaps personal quantum computers) will put the power of google into our own hands.
You are only a quarter right. A block on twitter also stops you retweeting, which is stupid because the info is public (though you could argue that the user being retweeted doesn't want to know about it, in which case there would be need for reprogramming. A twitter block also makes it harder to follow conversations (fortunately you can do so my opening the link in a new tab - haha @Asher_Wolf
Prison is the real crime here. Why should the taxpayer fork out to lock people up non-violent crimes? Surely a community sentence doing useful work for some charity or other is ten times better? Crazy.
Neither the article or PDF contain the word "pun". We're still a little way off. But hopefully we'll get better than this attempt from google translate: = She turned me off with her bossy manner.
but Google translate gets OPPOSITE meaning. saying "Her attitude arbitrary pleases me too."
"Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again"
And here I was under the impression that everything in science was always up for grabs. This is just the mag trying to silence dissent. I happen to agree with evolution but I have no problem debating it with people who do not. Nor do I believe evolution is settled science, we continue to learn a great deal and there is always a possibility of some groundbreaking new development to come along and rock the whole foundation.
I think you've missed the point. The precise mechanisms of evolution are up for grabs, not the fact of evolution. The tweaking of climate change models is up for grabs, not the fact of climate change. I use the word fact to mean 99.99 per cent sure and agreed by more than 90 percent of scientists. I think you also miss the point in that TFA implied vested interests, represented by an anti-science media, are skewing "debate" in a deleterious way. That said, perhaps a slashdot-like mod system might have been interesting, but you saw their reasons on that too. open brackets joke close brackets. you dumb fucking jackass prick sour grapes fool. open brackets backslash joke close brackets . Do you think the world is flat/round is up for grabs too?
I'd vote you up on this one but don't want to use my mod points.
Sorry, but I want to make a comment or two about how broken slashdot has become.
1. I filter my page to give me high rating comments. Unfortunately I have to pick ALL because if I pick INTERESTING, or INFORMATIVE, or INSIGHTFUL I can't get FUNNY or any other category. So/. Why not combine at least three of these and allow me to filter on more than one category.
2. Too many mod points are given out if the system is going to continue to function the way it does. Almost everything is modded up. So/. Why stop at 5 for modding up. The highest should then be moved to the top of the page (I can click on stuff to give me a threaded view if I want)
Anyway it's late and I'm going to bed.
jumping on the bandwagon of attacking Linus. But now I have to worry. Anyone who says he doesn't know how he'd survive emotionally without his pet project is a worry. He speaks of the project as a teenager might speak about their first love. It means he might put his emotions ahead of the good of the project. I know many will respond "yeah we knew that", but I think this statement is the perhaps the best evidence yet that they might be right.
Actually no. You are looking at a society with a massively different attitude to these things. Yes some will know it's not a real confession, but many many more will think, "where there's smoke there's fire". Such people will think that a person with "face" (ie a real Chinese person) would never say stuff like this unless they meant it. The confession also gels with the massive amount of propaganda that the Chinese society now lives within. I guess you've read Orwell's 1984, well, Chinese society is like that. The weird mixture of fear/love, the emotions, the belief that the government is right and loves me and is doing the best for China is a powerful amalgam of religious dimension. I've been going back and forth to China for 30 years. I have close friends there that beg me never ever to discuss this stuff with them in writing. They are the ones that know. But the great unwashed masses and the urban middle class don't want to know. Like in the west, it's easier to consume, do nothing and live in the dominant paradigm without questioning. They are getting richer at the expense of the rural areas. Rural people are locked up in black jails if they get caught in the cities without permission. I could go on and on, but believe me - this public humiliation will have some traction, perhaps akin to what the climate change deniers get in the west.
Yes it needs action as you say and the action is called counselling, listening, fixing the bullying problem. You Americans live in a fucked society. There, I've said it again. Damn, I'll lose karma.
Isn't PCMan
Hong Jen Yee = medical student in Taiwan?
pcman.tw@gmail.com
This is publicaly available, so hope it's ok to post on/.
BTW the filemanager in LXDE (PCManFM) is a dog and I use Dolphin instead and will even avoid opening files within programs. I open them with Dolphin of the terminal because PCManFM takes AGES to read my large doc file.
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Labor is a market, just like any market. The work that unskilled people do in a non-skill-requiring job is worth a certain amount. That dollar amount is the intersection of [whatever a company is willing to pay] and [whatever those people are willing to work for].
You can start a company, pay people whatever you think is fair. That is your right.
I cannot believe a sane person believes this neo-classical economic shit any more. Jesus, it's so simple. Every school kid should know by now that market allocation of resources has nothing to do with efficient market allocation of resources, not to mention just distribution. Cute how you segue into non-skill-requiring job to prop up your silly proposition. Would you care to draw the line for me between skill/non-skill? I thought not. So off we go, pay CEOs squillions and workers peanuts. Your mind is so colonised by shit that I wonder why I waste my time. FFS "the market". [throws hands in air in despair ]
I'm a bit surprised that we seem to accept the "Obamacare" nomenclature. Can we at least try to be objective? http://www.prosebeforehos.com/video-of-the-day/10/06/obamacare-versus-affordable-care-act/ http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/27/poll-more-oppose-obamacare-than-affordable-care-act/
then we can weed out all the posts that repeat what's already been said.
I'm afraid the idea, often expressed in this discussion, of "that's what most people want" sells us short. The whole point of a smart search engine is to give me what I want. What I want is not what most want. The problem now with Google Search is that it has become a monopoly for all practical purposes (duckduckgo is a great alternative but it's market share is tiny and after the latest firefox disabled the ability to set it as the default search, that market share has dropped even more). So as a monopoly it has started to ignore its users. It has even wound back features that were previously useful. Most of us could quickly list 10 things it could do to improve its service. But until Watson or another alternative is viable, nothing will happen. My hope is that the next technological leap (perhaps personal quantum computers) will put the power of google into our own hands.
How many of the open access journals rely on click through advertising? Follow the money, I say.
You are only a quarter right. A block on twitter also stops you retweeting, which is stupid because the info is public (though you could argue that the user being retweeted doesn't want to know about it, in which case there would be need for reprogramming. A twitter block also makes it harder to follow conversations (fortunately you can do so my opening the link in a new tab - haha @Asher_Wolf
Prison is the real crime here. Why should the taxpayer fork out to lock people up non-violent crimes? Surely a community sentence doing useful work for some charity or other is ten times better? Crazy.
hmmm?? slashdot doesn't easily accommodate unicode.
Neither the article or PDF contain the word "pun". We're still a little way off. But hopefully we'll get better than this attempt from google translate: = She turned me off with her bossy manner. but Google translate gets OPPOSITE meaning. saying "Her attitude arbitrary pleases me too."
"Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again"
And here I was under the impression that everything in science was always up for grabs. This is just the mag trying to silence dissent. I happen to agree with evolution but I have no problem debating it with people who do not. Nor do I believe evolution is settled science, we continue to learn a great deal and there is always a possibility of some groundbreaking new development to come along and rock the whole foundation.
I think you've missed the point. The precise mechanisms of evolution are up for grabs, not the fact of evolution. The tweaking of climate change models is up for grabs, not the fact of climate change. I use the word fact to mean 99.99 per cent sure and agreed by more than 90 percent of scientists. I think you also miss the point in that TFA implied vested interests, represented by an anti-science media, are skewing "debate" in a deleterious way. That said, perhaps a slashdot-like mod system might have been interesting, but you saw their reasons on that too. open brackets joke close brackets. you dumb fucking jackass prick sour grapes fool. open brackets backslash joke close brackets . Do you think the world is flat/round is up for grabs too?
I'd vote you up on this one but don't want to use my mod points. Sorry, but I want to make a comment or two about how broken slashdot has become. 1. I filter my page to give me high rating comments. Unfortunately I have to pick ALL because if I pick INTERESTING, or INFORMATIVE, or INSIGHTFUL I can't get FUNNY or any other category. So /. Why not combine at least three of these and allow me to filter on more than one category.
2. Too many mod points are given out if the system is going to continue to function the way it does. Almost everything is modded up. So /. Why stop at 5 for modding up. The highest should then be moved to the top of the page (I can click on stuff to give me a threaded view if I want)
Anyway it's late and I'm going to bed.
jumping on the bandwagon of attacking Linus. But now I have to worry. Anyone who says he doesn't know how he'd survive emotionally without his pet project is a worry. He speaks of the project as a teenager might speak about their first love. It means he might put his emotions ahead of the good of the project. I know many will respond "yeah we knew that", but I think this statement is the perhaps the best evidence yet that they might be right.
Actually no. You are looking at a society with a massively different attitude to these things. Yes some will know it's not a real confession, but many many more will think, "where there's smoke there's fire". Such people will think that a person with "face" (ie a real Chinese person) would never say stuff like this unless they meant it. The confession also gels with the massive amount of propaganda that the Chinese society now lives within. I guess you've read Orwell's 1984, well, Chinese society is like that. The weird mixture of fear/love, the emotions, the belief that the government is right and loves me and is doing the best for China is a powerful amalgam of religious dimension. I've been going back and forth to China for 30 years. I have close friends there that beg me never ever to discuss this stuff with them in writing. They are the ones that know. But the great unwashed masses and the urban middle class don't want to know. Like in the west, it's easier to consume, do nothing and live in the dominant paradigm without questioning. They are getting richer at the expense of the rural areas. Rural people are locked up in black jails if they get caught in the cities without permission. I could go on and on, but believe me - this public humiliation will have some traction, perhaps akin to what the climate change deniers get in the west.
by incorrectly naming suspect. http://www.dailydot.com/news/aaron-alexis-navy-yard-linkedin-reddit/
Guys, you've gotta watch the vid. Mod up!!
Yes it needs action as you say and the action is called counselling, listening, fixing the bullying problem. You Americans live in a fucked society. There, I've said it again. Damn, I'll lose karma.
https://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/review-chinese-translation-of-stephen-king-%E6%96%AF%E8%92%82%E8%8A%AC%C2%B7%E9%87%91%EF%BC%89bag-of-bones-%E5%B0%B8%E9%AA%A8%E8%A2%8B/
I'd mod you up if I had points
I go to A LOT of trouble to avoid PayPal and urge you all to do the same. Use your consumer power on these bastards.
that it's not uncommon for plastic bottles of water to cause fires when the sun's rays are focussed through them. Don't leave your bottles in the sun.
either way, you're rooted
oh no, not another amtrak ad
I see you haven't travelled on trains in communist china for a while.
What?! You don't watch Stephen Colbert?!
Isn't PCMan Hong Jen Yee = medical student in Taiwan? pcman.tw@gmail.com This is publicaly available, so hope it's ok to post on /.
BTW the filemanager in LXDE (PCManFM) is a dog and I use Dolphin instead and will even avoid opening files within programs. I open them with Dolphin of the terminal because PCManFM takes AGES to read my large doc file.