Slashdot Mirror


User: Marxdot

Marxdot's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
140
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 140

  1. Re:My concern... on Chinese Supplier Gets Dumped By Apple For Fraudulently Using Underage Labor · · Score: 1

    Having lost Apple's blessing, the company found to be using child labour goes out of business. Labour force of that former company generally moves to the new Apple-approved factory because that is where a glut of vacancies will open. [Adult] labour in that particular supply chain becomes more valuable because fewer workers are in that labour force (due of course to the absence of children), so the adult workers are paid proportionally more, so the adult workers needn't send children to toil in another factory in order to obtain a subsistence income.

    That is what would happen if [labour] markets were as rational and smooth as the capital fetishists assert. It would be a flawless demonstration supply and demand. However, real life rarely demonstrates rationality, particularly not where exploitation is the rule; we can be sure that the managers and capitalists involved with the new factory will find other ways to take the piss, even in the absence of child labour.

  2. Re:it's the children that suffer on Chinese Supplier Gets Dumped By Apple For Fraudulently Using Underage Labor · · Score: 1

    Bollocks.

  3. Re:An oft-forgotten saying on Unemployed Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks To Factory Jobs · · Score: 1

    So it is a poor analogy, and one Milton would be unlikely to make.

    Now, let us assume that Milton is not likely to make poor analogies...

  4. Re:My Question / Suicide is not for cowards on Have Questions For MIT's Aaron Swartz Review? · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree. It takes bravery to stare into the void and then decide to throw yourself into it, but that opinion seems to 'offend' these people (yeah whatever).

    Let's be honest; 'Blah blah bullshit coward's way out blah blah Martin Luther King said Words blah blah total coward blah blah blah what a pansy he probably loved cocks up his bum as well...' is just a thinly veiled way of crowing over someone's suicide. So I'm confident that these posters dislike him because of his association with this or that, and just wish to crow over the fact he was driven to suicide.

  5. Re:Establishes that you do not own your hardware. on Unlocking New Mobile Phones Becomes Illegal In the US Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    There's that word again.

  6. Re:Lets just cut off the food aid on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 2

    Oh look, DarkOx is being exceptionally ignorant and is making rash proposals based on that ignorance again.

  7. Re:As intended. on Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The thing that people forget is that when automation becomes more and more ubiquitous, it becomes cheaper and cheaper. Eventually, the common people will own the means of production without a revolution because the means of production will be self-producing, intelligent, and widely available.

    True, on the condition it isn't successfully lobbied and regulated out of the hands of the common people.

  8. Re:Read "Code Complete", follow its guidelines on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 1

    A better option is to study the Plan 9 source code or read the Practice of Programming.

  9. Re:Just like snipe hunting on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it may be the other way around. Worst case scenario: they're all FactoryFactoryFactoryFactoryFuckers.

  10. Re:Compatibility on Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users · · Score: 1

    The latter two are good, but that does not reflect the majority of "major ... AAA titles".

  11. Re:Compatibility on Valve Starts Promoting Steam For Linux To Windows Users · · Score: 1

    But those are the worst sort of games.

  12. Re:PayPal is a Business on UK Government To Use PayPal For Identity Assurance · · Score: 2

    Indeed. This definitely has absolutely nothing to do with top politicians' share portfolios. Also, giving control of vital government services and lots of public money to random for-profit interests is definitely not congruent at all with the ideologies of the two ruling parties. Not at all.

  13. Re:Wow! on Schmidt, Daughter Talk About North Korea Trip · · Score: 2

    Lovely separation of Google and State.

  14. Re:What's the problem? on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    As has been said repeatedly, the problem is that the burgers are advertised as containing only beef as their constituent meat. Nowhere does it say that they may/definitely do contain bits of horse and pig in them as well.

    Furthermore, this evidence of lax quality assurance and regulation opens the door to some (reasonable) speculation. There may well be parts of these animals that are risky to eat in the affected burgers. Maybe the constituent animals were condemned. Who knows what went on in the production? Those things wouldn't be good at all.

    Maybe you would be satisfied with food producers putting whatever they want into the food and selling it under the guise of some other substance, but not many people seem to be.

    Hopefully some chain will bring out Proper Horseburgers.

  15. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 0

    No, we don't.

  16. Re:lost me on Doom 3 Source Code: Beautiful · · Score: 1

    OOP

    you can never have too many comments

    tight vertical spacing is archaic and stupid

    Speaking of religion...

  17. Re:This is a must ... on Doom 3 Source Code: Beautiful · · Score: 1

    Well and good if you don't use a proportional font.

  18. Re:Blaming others increases suicide. on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1

    Ostensibly you're still as much of an imbecile as ever.

  19. Re:Why? on Vietnam Admits Deploying Bloggers · · Score: 0

    Excuse me, did you just suggest that the US actually has a left?

  20. Re:sad day, and sad reality on Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    Cunt.

  21. Re:Not going to happen on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 1

    Once you begin to disrupt the normal course of business or government, you are breaking the law.

    Which laws?

  22. Re:DDoS affects comerce on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 1

    Capitalism != markets != capitalism.

  23. Re:Mannequin Attack on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Andy Prough never misses an opportunity to make an arse of himself.

    Please go back to the comments sections of The Blaze and spare us your inane shite.

  24. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    First of all it will weed out the anti authority programmers.

    Gods forbid that those who are doing a job should choose how best to do it.

  25. Re:The more..... on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" --Antoine de Saint Exupéry

    That is the only rule of deleting code; if you can take it away or do it more simply without causing Bad Things, do it.