Actually, the POUM were an anarchist brigade, not a Trotskyist one. But you are indeed correct that the thrust of Orwell's writing emerged from opposition to totalitarian systems, not a dislike of socialism per se. He was just as opposed to the right wing imperialism of colonial Britain and Facism (which was enthusiastically supported by the upper classes in the UK and United States well into the war).
Homage to Catalonia remains one of the finest pieces of war writing in the English language; for those who prefer pretty pictures, Ken Loaches Land and Freedom covers similar territory from a similar point of view.
POUM were a rebuttal, incidentally, to the notion that one's army needs to be run in a system of totalitarian obedience to authority. The anarchist brigades elected their officers and would ditch them if the lost confidence, but were one of the most effective of the anti-Facist forces in Spain, until their betrayl by the Communist-backed forces.
Tolkien stated, after a letter from a fan, than Glorfindel was a continuity mistake - he had accidentally put an Elf who died in an earlier age. "Glorfindel", according to Tolkien, could have been any random high elf.
A cursory study of how the Comics Code or the MPAA censorship system will suggest to anyone not totally indocrinated with "Government bad, Company good" thoughts that private enterprise censorship is often far, far worse than government censorship. The
In a competitive market, there may be no problem, because you can take your business elsewhere (Apart from the obvious question about an informed citizenry).
In a world where WalMart acts as an effective monopoly in many US towns and cities, there is no competition and no alternatives.
And WalMart, as a company that relabelled clothes manufactured with Chinese prison labour as "Made in the USA" seems on pretty shaky ground to be making moral decisions.
Limited liability companies only exist at the sufference of societies who chose to give them a charter. They must therefore respect the mores of that society, or it may eventually get fed up and note than, prior to the rise of politicially influential companies, it was common to revoke the carter of miscreants.
Moreover, company owners are happy enough to apply the notion that an LLC is the legal fiction of a person when it comes to limiting liability and claiming rights (such as speech rights); I see no reason why they should therefore be able to repudiate responsibilities commonly associated with those rights.
While Ford sent Hilter birthday presents as his company supplied German armed forces with they equipment they'd use to kill American troops. Was that OK, too?
Yeah, and when some systems fail, it doesn't actually matter.
One thing I saw again and again during the.com boom was pissant little companies demanding 100% uptime, spending a fortune on Oracle and redundant data centres and shit, when they didn't need that reliability. Their business plan didn't call for it, their demographic didn't call for it, nothing called for it. They were engineering their shithouse little business' systems like they were for the A&E department of a hostpital.
And that's the point the guy seems to be making: people are spending millions of dollars where they only need to spend a tenth that, to build systems you could run a trading floor with.
If a company can't do business, others will hire away those staff and take its place.
Besides, who's to say the company shouldn't have to meet employee entitlements when its in jail? If I get sent to jail, I'm still expected to pay taxes on any income (from interest, stocks, etc), and my family will have to use our savings before they become eligible for state assitance.
It was not a "damn fine compromise" with anyone. Tipper Gore, like Al's fromer running mate Joe Lieberman, is an aggresive campaigner for censorship and has been since the early eighties. Her campaign against musicians mirrored the classic bluestocking campaigns against movies in the twenties and thirties, and comics in the fifties, hoping to obtain more censorship through sdaring the industry than could possibly be obtained through legal means.
"Real capitalism" has nothing to do with free markets. If anything, a good capitalist ought to destroy free markets, since they may detract from the generation of wealth from capital.
Actually they can. Did you miss the kerfuffle a while back when Microsoft started releasing parts of their build environment with a license that prevented creating GPL apps?
NT 4 was far less reliable, even SPed up the wazoo, than 2k. It also far less hardware support, and was/is nowhere near as good at running old apps (which is a concern for many a business).
W2K is a *heap* better than NT4. XP is not a heap better, and is an upgrade which is of value only to Microsoft, and has serious disadvantages for the rest of us.
Digital and Compaq did a bunch of deals with customers, especially in the supercomputer space, that were predicated on the appearance of this iteration of the Alpha architecture - they'd be in breach to the tune of hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions, if they hadn't pushed this out the door. It's not about whether new customers pick it up, it's about not being sued by old customers.
Furthermore, they've got customers on Tru64 and VMS who have nowhere to move at the moment, but may need more grunt; they'll buy upgrades until they've ported VMS to Itanic and the Tru64 customers have migrated to HP-UX (or give up on the Digital->Compaq->HP fiasco in disgust and move to AIX or Solaris).
Bear in mind that until fairly recently Digital/Compaq were selling new VAX systems to customers who had VAX/VMS setups that worked just fine and no particular desire to upgrade.
Actually, that's not always too polite. The public servers are all pretty much heavily loaded (even down to strata 2), so I hope you're syncing off a time server on your ISP.
Work for the government. If you're in the right country - say the US, Iraq, Israel, or Turkey, to pick some random examples, you'll find your skull-crushing activities welcomed and entirely legal.
So long as they're directed against the official enemy of the week, of course.
Pay's obviously a lot better here in NZ, then. Where I worked, junior journos made around NZD$25-30k, and senior print reporters, subs, and the like, would peak at around $70-80k, depending on how much evening/weekend work they were expected to do (and I'm sure some star reporter/columnists and editors make more).
There are occasionally cadetships for would-be reporters; these pay, unlike internship, although not that much.
To throw some cost of living numbers around that, I used to rent a 3 bedroom, 150 sq m house (on a 500 sq m section) in walking distance of the centre of town (I live in the capital) for $360/week, and spend about $100/week on groceries for two people.
It's the culture of the US, not Japan. Here in New Zealand (1/100th the size of the US market...), we've had the Legacy RS Turbo, the Impreza WRX and STi, the Skyline GT-R, full-spec Type-R 200ZX/SX, Evos, and all the rest since day one; the only top end Japanese sports car I'm aware of not having was the "Batmobile" RX-7, which flooded in as a second hand import until Mazda realised they screwed up by not bringing it in themselves.
The US suffers from a huge NIH chip on its collective shoulder; look at what happens whenever a/. article appears suggesting the US trails some other part of the world in technology - cell phones, for example, bring out a horde of dickheads who argue (against all facts) that the reason the US has terrible cellular infrastructure is because the rest of the world has a third world phone system, and anyway, who cares about cell phones.
The US leads in a number of areas, but like all big, important nations, its citizens tend to stick their heads up their arses in the areas it trails - not unline that class of Pom who keeps reminiscing about 1966 and the Battle of Britain whenever a German wanders into earshot.
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Kind of like having a war against terror to defend freedoms, while declaring an intent to apply a religious test to offices of the judiciary?
Actually, the POUM were an anarchist brigade, not a Trotskyist one. But you are indeed correct that the thrust of Orwell's writing emerged from opposition to totalitarian systems, not a dislike of socialism per se. He was just as opposed to the right wing imperialism of colonial Britain and Facism (which was enthusiastically supported by the upper classes in the UK and United States well into the war).
Homage to Catalonia remains one of the finest pieces of war writing in the English language; for those who prefer pretty pictures, Ken Loaches Land and Freedom covers similar territory from a similar point of view.
POUM were a rebuttal, incidentally, to the notion that one's army needs to be run in a system of totalitarian obedience to authority. The anarchist brigades elected their officers and would ditch them if the lost confidence, but were one of the most effective of the anti-Facist forces in Spain, until their betrayl by the Communist-backed forces.
You're sufferring from years of Gary Gygax trying to pretend he didn't "borrow" AD&D elements from Tolkien.
Orcs are twisted, degenerate Elves, and the film is a much more accurate portrait.
Tolkien stated, after a letter from a fan, than Glorfindel was a continuity mistake - he had accidentally put an Elf who died in an earlier age. "Glorfindel", according to Tolkien, could have been any random high elf.
A cursory study of how the Comics Code or the MPAA censorship system will suggest to anyone not totally indocrinated with "Government bad, Company good" thoughts that private enterprise censorship is often far, far worse than government censorship. The
In a competitive market, there may be no problem, because you can take your business elsewhere (Apart from the obvious question about an informed citizenry).
In a world where WalMart acts as an effective monopoly in many US towns and cities, there is no competition and no alternatives.
And WalMart, as a company that relabelled clothes manufactured with Chinese prison labour as "Made in the USA" seems on pretty shaky ground to be making moral decisions.
Most of them resulted from the outsourcing of hitherto government programs to businesses like Raytheon and Haliburton.
Limited liability companies only exist at the sufference of societies who chose to give them a charter. They must therefore respect the mores of that society, or it may eventually get fed up and note than, prior to the rise of politicially influential companies, it was common to revoke the carter of miscreants.
Moreover, company owners are happy enough to apply the notion that an LLC is the legal fiction of a person when it comes to limiting liability and claiming rights (such as speech rights); I see no reason why they should therefore be able to repudiate responsibilities commonly associated with those rights.
While Ford sent Hilter birthday presents as his company supplied German armed forces with they equipment they'd use to kill American troops. Was that OK, too?
Yeah, and when some systems fail, it doesn't actually matter.
.com boom was pissant little companies demanding 100% uptime, spending a fortune on Oracle and redundant data centres and shit, when they didn't need that reliability. Their business plan didn't call for it, their demographic didn't call for it, nothing called for it. They were engineering their shithouse little business' systems like they were for the A&E department of a hostpital.
One thing I saw again and again during the
And that's the point the guy seems to be making: people are spending millions of dollars where they only need to spend a tenth that, to build systems you could run a trading floor with.
If a company can't do business, others will hire away those staff and take its place.
Besides, who's to say the company shouldn't have to meet employee entitlements when its in jail? If I get sent to jail, I'm still expected to pay taxes on any income (from interest, stocks, etc), and my family will have to use our savings before they become eligible for state assitance.
It was not a "damn fine compromise" with anyone. Tipper Gore, like Al's fromer running mate Joe Lieberman, is an aggresive campaigner for censorship and has been since the early eighties. Her campaign against musicians mirrored the classic bluestocking campaigns against movies in the twenties and thirties, and comics in the fifties, hoping to obtain more censorship through sdaring the industry than could possibly be obtained through legal means.
And there's a shitload of research into diet - it's just mostly in very specialised niches (high performance athletes).
"Real capitalism" has nothing to do with free markets. If anything, a good capitalist ought to destroy free markets, since they may detract from the generation of wealth from capital.
Actually they can. Did you miss the kerfuffle a while back when Microsoft started releasing parts of their build environment with a license that prevented creating GPL apps?
NT 4 was far less reliable, even SPed up the wazoo, than 2k. It also far less hardware support, and was/is nowhere near as good at running old apps (which is a concern for many a business).
W2K is a *heap* better than NT4. XP is not a heap better, and is an upgrade which is of value only to Microsoft, and has serious disadvantages for the rest of us.
Weta Digital are doing a cool project. This does not make them a cool place to work.
Digital and Compaq did a bunch of deals with customers, especially in the supercomputer space, that were predicated on the appearance of this iteration of the Alpha architecture - they'd be in breach to the tune of hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions, if they hadn't pushed this out the door. It's not about whether new customers pick it up, it's about not being sued by old customers.
Furthermore, they've got customers on Tru64 and VMS who have nowhere to move at the moment, but may need more grunt; they'll buy upgrades until they've ported VMS to Itanic and the Tru64 customers have migrated to HP-UX (or give up on the Digital->Compaq->HP fiasco in disgust and move to AIX or Solaris).
Bear in mind that until fairly recently Digital/Compaq were selling new VAX systems to customers who had VAX/VMS setups that worked just fine and no particular desire to upgrade.
Even many of these are way too heavily loaded. Many ISPs run ntpd on some of their servers; point at them, instead.
Actually, that's not always too polite. The public servers are all pretty much heavily loaded (even down to strata 2), so I hope you're syncing off a time server on your ISP.
Work for the government. If you're in the right country - say the US, Iraq, Israel, or Turkey, to pick some random examples, you'll find your skull-crushing activities welcomed and entirely legal.
So long as they're directed against the official enemy of the week, of course.
You eat, drink and make merry in Valhalla. You may even get laid.
Not a hard choice.
Pay's obviously a lot better here in NZ, then. Where I worked, junior journos made around NZD$25-30k, and senior print reporters, subs, and the like, would peak at around $70-80k, depending on how much evening/weekend work they were expected to do (and I'm sure some star reporter/columnists and editors make more).
There are occasionally cadetships for would-be reporters; these pay, unlike internship, although not that much.
To throw some cost of living numbers around that, I used to rent a 3 bedroom, 150 sq m house (on a 500 sq m section) in walking distance of the centre of town (I live in the capital) for $360/week, and spend about $100/week on groceries for two people.
The obvious: they're both afterlives. Heroes feast in Valhalla with the Gods, and Limbo is, well, Limbo.
It's the culture of the US, not Japan. Here in New Zealand (1/100th the size of the US market...), we've had the Legacy RS Turbo, the Impreza WRX and STi, the Skyline GT-R, full-spec Type-R 200ZX/SX, Evos, and all the rest since day one; the only top end Japanese sports car I'm aware of not having was the "Batmobile" RX-7, which flooded in as a second hand import until Mazda realised they screwed up by not bringing it in themselves.
/. article appears suggesting the US trails some other part of the world in technology - cell phones, for example, bring out a horde of dickheads who argue (against all facts) that the reason the US has terrible cellular infrastructure is because the rest of the world has a third world phone system, and anyway, who cares about cell phones.
The US suffers from a huge NIH chip on its collective shoulder; look at what happens whenever a
The US leads in a number of areas, but like all big, important nations, its citizens tend to stick their heads up their arses in the areas it trails - not unline that class of Pom who keeps reminiscing about 1966 and the Battle of Britain whenever a German wanders into earshot.