Not true.
there are literally thousands of crucial dlls are writable by anybody.
the winnt directory is world writable and so is the system32 directory. Anybody can alter any one of them and bingo a broken system.
Think about this.
Allchin is advocating putting people in jail for coding free software (yes that's what he means by legislating). Ballmer goes around saying linux is "crappy" and that for some people "crappy is OK".
Have you ever heard any executive from any corporation talk like this? Have you heard the CEO of Ford say that Chevy is a "crappy" car and that for some people "crappy" chevies are OK? have you heard the president of Sony predict that JVC will go under in 5 years? Have you heard president of NBC say that cable ought to be illegal?
So my question to you is just exactly what kind of a corporate culture breeds lying, undethical, spoiled brats? These people are the some of the richest people in the world and run one of the largest companies in the world. Instead of behaving like responsible adults and setting examples for kids they act like tantum throwing two year olds.
So tell me if Microsoft is not an evil corporation why are they headed by people like this?
Yes of course before Bill Clinton no body in the entire united states ever lied about anything. No president or politician, no corporate head, no radio talk show host ever lied before Bill Clinton got elected.
How many times do you lie a day? How about to yourself?
There is nothing preventing anybody from creating a dll called wininet.dll and stamping it with version 99. You can do this in VB. Then anybody who installs this program has a broken windows from then on.
You can believe whatever you want and I can believe whatever I want but it does not matter. What really matters is what the employees of amazon (or any other company) feel. After all they know better then anybody the pulse of the company.
The bigwigs at amazon got stock options and sold off stock at $400.00. They got cold hard cash for that. Maybe they bought a million dollar house maybe they bought a bentley maybe they spent it in las vegas it does not matter. They got their cash out fo the company. The poor slobs stuffing boxes got jack shit. All they got was their near minimum wage job. If they feel like company is about to go under it's in their best intetest to form a union and fight for whatever they can get. No it won't be a million dollar house but maybe it will be enough money to pay the bills for a month while they look for another job.
In our capitalist society it's every man for himself. Unfortunately the lowly worker has no weapons to fight the management unless they organize. Once the ship starts sinking nobody will try to haul the drowning people into their lifeboats. Not one manager or major stockholder will offer to put an employee up for a couple of weeks because they are broke and can't feed their kids. You either get organized and fight like hell or drown in the wake of the yacths the management is using to flee the wreckage.
Ask any corporation CEO (or a liberterian) and they'll tell you the same thing. The company owes you jack shit. You only get what you can negotiate. They don't like unions because it empowers the workers to negotiate better deals.
"But these guys aren't trying to get that -- they're trying to go back to the old days, where philosophy majors answer the phones sipping their latte's while debating the finer points of Aristotilian thought. "
Ok I'll let this one go because it's idiotic and it's a blatant lie
"I don't believe it is in any employee's best interest to organize when it's self-defeating -- i.e. it will cripple or destroy the company."
So what? People should have the right to extract their revenge on their employers especially if the employers are acting like morons. Revenge is a perfectly good motivation for doing something. If the company is cutting costs then it's dying anyways. All the people who work there (except the management) will get screwed over when the bigwigs cash out. Once the telltale signs of inept management start the employees should immediately organize and start fighting to get any piece of the carcass they can. It's either that or get shafted. The employees of any company do not owe that company anything. No allegience, no loyalty, no mercy. If you don't like your bosses or if they are treating you like you don't want to be treated you SHOULD fight back as hard as you can. Simply quitting does no good because they will get their jollies beating up whoever replaces you. It's better to organize and fight back because it makes their lives harder and it's only fair to give them headaches. Quitting simply encourages them to treat other people like shit too.
"I think you're tremendously simplifying the situation to state that management at Amazon don't have a clue to run a business. They obviously do know how to run a business -- they've taken what was in 1994 an insane idea, and turned themselves into the leading online retailer. They're also far from going under. No I'm not an investor in Amazon, but I am a satisfied customer. "
In the entire history of the company it has never turned a profit. It's prospects for turning a profit are dimmer then ever. It has basically spent the investors money to try and establish themselves and has failed miserably. If a company is unable to make a profit in six years it's fair to call the management inept and stupid. They have not only failed their employees they have failed their stockholders as well. This company is going to die pretty soon now and hundreds of people are going to be out of jobs except of course the top level management. They have already cashed out. At this stage they have nothing to lose.
What happens to the poor slob who has a disease and can not be insured?
1) He get help from the govt and you pay for it with your tax dollars.
2) He figures what the hell he's going to die anyways and goes on a rampage and robs banks or stores and you end up paying for it.
3) He end up in jail and gets free health care and you end up paying for it.
No such thing as free lunch. Unless you put a bullet in his head as soon as he is diagnosed you are going to pay for it one way or another.
If I was in that position I would definately go on the rampage what do you have to lose? If you get away with it you got a lot of money, if you get caught you get healthcare.
Test the babies before they are born. If they are determined to have defective genes (that is they will end up costing some insurance company money) kill them before they are born.
This would save lots of money for corporations.
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"we all have an abundance of choices."
Shouldn't one of those choices be to form or join a union?
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"Unions were necessary a century or so ago, when we didn't have the tremendous opportunity of mobility and communication that we do in our present society. Today, unions are as anachronistic to a good economy as homeopathy is to good medicine."
As long as corporations organize to keep workers wages as low as possible unions will be needed to organize workers to keep wages as high as possible.
You seem to feel that the corporation has a right to do whatever it wants to assure it's survival even if it means replacing their employees with third world labor. If that is the case why would you begrudge the employees the same right? If the corporation has the right to organize, plan and execute an operation which would financially cripple human beings why don't those human beings have the same right to organize, plan and execute a plan that may cripple the corporation?
It's a two way street. Corporation has to survive but so do the employees. The amazon.com employees know the business is going to fail any day now and they will all be on the street. This is not because they failed to pack enough books in an hour it's because the management didn't have a clue of how to run a business that can turn a profit. They have all been living high on the hog using investors money. They have already cashed out, they have their million dollar houses and bmws the employees OTOH will get jack shit when the company finally goes under.
A union represents the best (maybe only) chance they have to try and make best out of a crappy situation.
The average Joe is too stupid or lazy to download and install his own browser. The average joe uses whatever is preinstalled on his system. For the average joe this is IE.
Yes that's exactly what I mean. Places like Chicago make it possible for all the farmland in illinois to exist but get this IT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH!. The farmland not only suck up all the taxes chicago can muster but also have to suck up some NY or California money too.
BTW the midwest IS largely unpopulated farmland (I don't know about the sharecropping). Downtown chicago is a couple of miles across, if you measure all the way to the airport you are at the most 100 miles in diameter from downtown. The rest of illinois is pretty much nothing. Same with indiana, missouri, kansas what have you. Most of the people live in a very small percentage of the state.
That's all fine and dandy but the problem is that insurance is not really optional anymore. Unless you are bill gates nobody can afford a major medical procedure in the united states. Even a simple birth with no complications can can run over ten thousand dollars. Imagine the cost of a chronic disease like cancer or parkinsons.
The problem is that the person facing some debilitating disease has no way to pay for it unless they have some insurance, if the insurance will not cover them because of some genetic marker then what do they do? How do they come up a hundred thousand dollars for years of therapy and drugs?
If the sanctitiy of profits for the insurance companies are paramount how do you propose to deal with people who have a higher then normal chance of getting some disease or another? What do you do with someone who has no coverage, who can not get coverage and who is sick?
I don't have the sources handy but these are pretty close to the actual words they said when asked about the economy.
Gearge Bush: "It looks like we are headed for a recession"
Dick Cheney: "It looks like we are headed for a recession"
Bill Clinton: "The economy has been growing at near 5% for a while now and it would be unreasonable to expect it to keep growing that fast. A two to two and half percent growth is much more reasonable"
Which comments do you think put the fear of god into the consumers of this country just before christmas?
The real question is why wasn't anybody at MS smart enough to do a search before settling on a name especially one so obvious as Xbox. How many products have Xsomething or somthingX in them.
You know I never knew it was verifying MD5Sums I am now less worried thanks.
Now do you know how to fix a fucked up dselect database. I did something (no idea what) and now it thinks I want to uninstall or install about a hundred packages.
You don't seem to get it. Most of this country lives in urban centers. In most states a few big cities hold the majority of the population. The same is true (to a lesser extent) in the country as a whole. The tax dollars of everybody living in those populated areas go to the rural areas to subsidise the "rural way of life". Mostly it goes to road maintenance, farm subsidies, logging subsidies, grazing, mining etc. If all of those people went bankrupt it would be relatively small percentage of the population anyways. One farming, or ranching family may control hundreds of acres of land and suck up govt money like no tommorow but if they went bankrupt it would only be few people.
The great irony of course is that the rural areas are the most ardent anti govt republicans around. They love to suckle up to govt teats but rage against welfare for the poor.
The onofficial motto of the west. "Go away and give us more money"
"PS: I know this will get mod'ed down as it's Pro-Microsoft, but before you pull the trigger, re-read the post. He has NO alternatives."
Most pro microsoft posts are modded up to +5 on slashdot (just like yours). The best way to karma whore on slashdot is to say something nice about Microsoft or windows 2000.
Slashdot has been turned into MSDOT. Of course I'll be modded down for stating this simple, obvious and easily verifiable fact but what the hey.
A free market or a liberterian market has never existed anywhere at anytime. It will probably never exist. As long as wealth is accumulated and power concentrated those with wealth and power will seek to subjugate those without. Whether that subjugation comes at the hand of the government or a corporation makes little difference to the unfortunate masses.
Call the IRS and ask for a Tax ID number. After you fill out the paperwork you will be given a number which has the same number of digits as an SSN and can be used as one anywhere. Anytime people ask for your SSN give them your Tax ID number instead. It's legal, it's easy and it's safe.
Yes it does. It's the tax dollars from those holywood bigwigs that are paying the farm subsidies, loggins roads, mining subsidies, dairy subsidies etc. Get rid of the hollywood bigwigs and the entire midwest goes bankrupt.
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Not true.
there are literally thousands of crucial dlls are writable by anybody.
the winnt directory is world writable and so is the system32 directory. Anybody can alter any one of them and bingo a broken system.
Think about this.
Allchin is advocating putting people in jail for coding free software (yes that's what he means by legislating). Ballmer goes around saying linux is "crappy" and that for some people "crappy is OK".
Have you ever heard any executive from any corporation talk like this? Have you heard the CEO of Ford say that Chevy is a "crappy" car and that for some people "crappy" chevies are OK? have you heard the president of Sony predict that JVC will go under in 5 years? Have you heard president of NBC say that cable ought to be illegal?
So my question to you is just exactly what kind of a corporate culture breeds lying, undethical, spoiled brats? These people are the some of the richest people in the world and run one of the largest companies in the world. Instead of behaving like responsible adults and setting examples for kids they act like tantum throwing two year olds.
So tell me if Microsoft is not an evil corporation why are they headed by people like this?
Yes of course before Bill Clinton no body in the entire united states ever lied about anything. No president or politician, no corporate head, no radio talk show host ever lied before Bill Clinton got elected.
How many times do you lie a day? How about to yourself?
There is nothing preventing anybody from creating a dll called wininet.dll and stamping it with version 99. You can do this in VB. Then anybody who installs this program has a broken windows from then on.
You can believe whatever you want and I can believe whatever I want but it does not matter. What really matters is what the employees of amazon (or any other company) feel. After all they know better then anybody the pulse of the company.
The bigwigs at amazon got stock options and sold off stock at $400.00. They got cold hard cash for that. Maybe they bought a million dollar house maybe they bought a bentley maybe they spent it in las vegas it does not matter. They got their cash out fo the company. The poor slobs stuffing boxes got jack shit. All they got was their near minimum wage job. If they feel like company is about to go under it's in their best intetest to form a union and fight for whatever they can get. No it won't be a million dollar house but maybe it will be enough money to pay the bills for a month while they look for another job.
In our capitalist society it's every man for himself. Unfortunately the lowly worker has no weapons to fight the management unless they organize. Once the ship starts sinking nobody will try to haul the drowning people into their lifeboats. Not one manager or major stockholder will offer to put an employee up for a couple of weeks because they are broke and can't feed their kids. You either get organized and fight like hell or drown in the wake of the yacths the management is using to flee the wreckage.
Ask any corporation CEO (or a liberterian) and they'll tell you the same thing. The company owes you jack shit. You only get what you can negotiate. They don't like unions because it empowers the workers to negotiate better deals.
"But these guys aren't trying to get that -- they're trying to go back to the old days, where philosophy majors answer the phones sipping their latte's while debating the finer points of Aristotilian thought. "
Ok I'll let this one go because it's idiotic and it's a blatant lie
"I don't believe it is in any employee's best interest to organize when it's self-defeating -- i.e. it will cripple or destroy the company."
So what? People should have the right to extract their revenge on their employers especially if the employers are acting like morons. Revenge is a perfectly good motivation for doing something. If the company is cutting costs then it's dying anyways. All the people who work there (except the management) will get screwed over when the bigwigs cash out. Once the telltale signs of inept management start the employees should immediately organize and start fighting to get any piece of the carcass they can. It's either that or get shafted. The employees of any company do not owe that company anything. No allegience, no loyalty, no mercy. If you don't like your bosses or if they are treating you like you don't want to be treated you SHOULD fight back as hard as you can. Simply quitting does no good because they will get their jollies beating up whoever replaces you. It's better to organize and fight back because it makes their lives harder and it's only fair to give them headaches. Quitting simply encourages them to treat other people like shit too.
"I think you're tremendously simplifying the situation to state that management at Amazon don't have a clue to run a business. They obviously do know how to run a business -- they've taken what was in 1994 an insane idea, and turned themselves into the leading online retailer. They're also far from going under. No I'm not an investor in Amazon, but I am a satisfied customer. "
In the entire history of the company it has never turned a profit. It's prospects for turning a profit are dimmer then ever. It has basically spent the investors money to try and establish themselves and has failed miserably. If a company is unable to make a profit in six years it's fair to call the management inept and stupid. They have not only failed their employees they have failed their stockholders as well. This company is going to die pretty soon now and hundreds of people are going to be out of jobs except of course the top level management. They have already cashed out. At this stage they have nothing to lose.
What happens to the poor slob who has a disease and can not be insured?
1) He get help from the govt and you pay for it with your tax dollars.
2) He figures what the hell he's going to die anyways and goes on a rampage and robs banks or stores and you end up paying for it.
3) He end up in jail and gets free health care and you end up paying for it.
No such thing as free lunch. Unless you put a bullet in his head as soon as he is diagnosed you are going to pay for it one way or another.
If I was in that position I would definately go on the rampage what do you have to lose? If you get away with it you got a lot of money, if you get caught you get healthcare.
Test the babies before they are born. If they are determined to have defective genes (that is they will end up costing some insurance company money) kill them before they are born.
This would save lots of money for corporations.
"we all have an abundance of choices."
Shouldn't one of those choices be to form or join a union?
"Unions were necessary a century or so ago, when we didn't have the tremendous opportunity of mobility and communication that we do in our present society. Today, unions are as anachronistic to a good economy as homeopathy is to good medicine."
As long as corporations organize to keep workers wages as low as possible unions will be needed to organize workers to keep wages as high as possible.
You seem to feel that the corporation has a right to do whatever it wants to assure it's survival even if it means replacing their employees with third world labor. If that is the case why would you begrudge the employees the same right? If the corporation has the right to organize, plan and execute an operation which would financially cripple human beings why don't those human beings have the same right to organize, plan and execute a plan that may cripple the corporation?
It's a two way street. Corporation has to survive but so do the employees. The amazon.com employees know the business is going to fail any day now and they will all be on the street. This is not because they failed to pack enough books in an hour it's because the management didn't have a clue of how to run a business that can turn a profit. They have all been living high on the hog using investors money. They have already cashed out, they have their million dollar houses and bmws the employees OTOH will get jack shit when the company finally goes under.
A union represents the best (maybe only) chance they have to try and make best out of a crappy situation.
The average Joe is too stupid or lazy to download and install his own browser. The average joe uses whatever is preinstalled on his system. For the average joe this is IE.
He deliberately talked down the economy so he can those get those tax cuts through.
Yes that's exactly what I mean. Places like Chicago make it possible for all the farmland in illinois to exist but get this IT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH!. The farmland not only suck up all the taxes chicago can muster but also have to suck up some NY or California money too.
BTW the midwest IS largely unpopulated farmland (I don't know about the sharecropping). Downtown chicago is a couple of miles across, if you measure all the way to the airport you are at the most 100 miles in diameter from downtown. The rest of illinois is pretty much nothing. Same with indiana, missouri, kansas what have you. Most of the people live in a very small percentage of the state.
That's all fine and dandy but the problem is that insurance is not really optional anymore. Unless you are bill gates nobody can afford a major medical procedure in the united states. Even a simple birth with no complications can can run over ten thousand dollars. Imagine the cost of a chronic disease like cancer or parkinsons.
The problem is that the person facing some debilitating disease has no way to pay for it unless they have some insurance, if the insurance will not cover them because of some genetic marker then what do they do? How do they come up a hundred thousand dollars for years of therapy and drugs?
If the sanctitiy of profits for the insurance companies are paramount how do you propose to deal with people who have a higher then normal chance of getting some disease or another? What do you do with someone who has no coverage, who can not get coverage and who is sick?
I don't have the sources handy but these are pretty close to the actual words they said when asked about the economy.
Gearge Bush: "It looks like we are headed for a recession"
Dick Cheney: "It looks like we are headed for a recession"
Bill Clinton: "The economy has been growing at near 5% for a while now and it would be unreasonable to expect it to keep growing that fast. A two to two and half percent growth is much more reasonable"
Which comments do you think put the fear of god into the consumers of this country just before christmas?
Yea so what? That's how things work in the US.
The real question is why wasn't anybody at MS smart enough to do a search before settling on a name especially one so obvious as Xbox. How many products have Xsomething or somthingX in them.
I don't mind liberal jesus was a liberal too. If anybody wants to put me in that category I don't mind a bit.
You know I never knew it was verifying MD5Sums I am now less worried thanks.
Now do you know how to fix a fucked up dselect database. I did something (no idea what) and now it thinks I want to uninstall or install about a hundred packages.
You don't seem to get it. Most of this country lives in urban centers. In most states a few big cities hold the majority of the population. The same is true (to a lesser extent) in the country as a whole. The tax dollars of everybody living in those populated areas go to the rural areas to subsidise the "rural way of life". Mostly it goes to road maintenance, farm subsidies, logging subsidies, grazing, mining etc. If all of those people went bankrupt it would be relatively small percentage of the population anyways. One farming, or ranching family may control hundreds of acres of land and suck up govt money like no tommorow but if they went bankrupt it would only be few people.
The great irony of course is that the rural areas are the most ardent anti govt republicans around. They love to suckle up to govt teats but rage against welfare for the poor.
The onofficial motto of the west. "Go away and give us more money"
"PS: I know this will get mod'ed down as it's Pro-Microsoft, but before you pull the trigger, re-read the post. He has NO alternatives."
Most pro microsoft posts are modded up to +5 on slashdot (just like yours). The best way to karma whore on slashdot is to say something nice about Microsoft or windows 2000.
Slashdot has been turned into MSDOT. Of course I'll be modded down for stating this simple, obvious and easily verifiable fact but what the hey.
A free market or a liberterian market has never existed anywhere at anytime. It will probably never exist. As long as wealth is accumulated and power concentrated those with wealth and power will seek to subjugate those without. Whether that subjugation comes at the hand of the government or a corporation makes little difference to the unfortunate masses.
Call the IRS and ask for a Tax ID number. After you fill out the paperwork you will be given a number which has the same number of digits as an SSN and can be used as one anywhere. Anytime people ask for your SSN give them your Tax ID number instead. It's legal, it's easy and it's safe.
Corporation can buy the government to limit your choices. They can make certain choices illegal for example or tax the crap out of other choices.
Yes it does. It's the tax dollars from those holywood bigwigs that are paying the farm subsidies, loggins roads, mining subsidies, dairy subsidies etc. Get rid of the hollywood bigwigs and the entire midwest goes bankrupt.