In this case Real claiming that I made a choice when in fact I did not.
Remember, Rob Glaser (Real Networks founder) is ex-Microsoft, so he knows about the slick tricks you need to build a successful, mutually beneficial and satisfying business relationship with the customers.
neither of which I expect to see happening.
If you had a better idea, a better way, you _could_ see it happening. But you don't, so you can't. I can't either.
If we had women protesting that they were not allowed to choose, that would be one thing, but all we have is a bunch of grousing that women are merely making different choices.
You make a good point, but another point is that that makes CS look like a boys' club, and that gets the feminists' panties in a bunch. 'All boys clubs must be destroyed' is the mantra.
Why can't it be voluntary, and the consumer can decide if they want to use a certified/licensed one and pay the $ or a cheaper unlicensed one? Because the consumers are mostly idiots?
Any creativity out of Islamic civilization was due to the creativity of the conquered peoples, not anything within Islam. After the conquered peoples were completely crushed/blended in, it all went to pieces.
I'll just point out that publically-chartered corporations are collectivist systems, whereby a large number of owners appoint a small number of board members to oversee their interests.
You're right. I ran into a fellow who teaches corporate law at a U. So I asked him about this. And his answer was that it allows lots of owners (stockholders) while pooling responsibility. IOW, the owners aren't responsible when the company gets sued, beyond any financial risk they have by owning stock. And that flat out stinks, too. Maybe I'm being idealistic, but I tend towards a Distributist view of things: distributed ownership, small companies, small farms. Hey, I think Tolkein did, too!
It seems that you are engaged in more than a little hypocricy to blast one collectivist system without blasting the other. As Enron shows, the fact that it's called a "corporation" rather than a "labor contractor" or "union" does not render it immune to corruption -- any organization where a few people are selected to defend the interests of the many tends to turn into a system where those few people defend their own interests, and to [bleep] with the many.
In Enron's case, the owners _did_ pay: their stock tanked. But they willingly (albeitly stupidly) gave up decision making to someone else. What really sucks is most of us aren't willing to run our own businesses, but just want to melt into the warm embrace of the State or a Large Company that will take care of us.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It seems there's an awful conflict of interest when politicians allow themselves to call people on the do-not-call list, joined only by non-profits.
It's the nature of the State to allow its representatives to do what is illegal for everyone else.
Maybe instead of calling it a "union", we should call it an "employee-owned labor contractor" to deal with all that right-wing anti-union propoganda that's been going around for the past 100 years.
You have some decent points in there, but frankly, unions have earned their bad rep with their never-ending shenanigans. They make individuals part of a collective, and you no longer deal with individuals. In the end you get the best that a collectivist system has to offer: nothing.
On each of the pages, there are % Minorities and % Women for each company. Why?! Why should this matter. Is this not racist or sexist? Certainly if there was a % White, it would be considered so. Why should the color of a persons skin or their sex be considered over how well they perform their job?
Because that's the only way to tell if someone is in a government-approved victim group. And you need the body count to prove that you really are a righteous company.
Make a mistake, go to jail. Nice! No thanks, I'll stick with software to do the taxes. I'm not a CPA and am completely clueless how the tax system works in this stupid country. Why on earth we don't just have a simple flat tax is beyond me. Here's how much I made, take this much percent from that, here's how much the government gets. Period. Graduated tax scales and loopholes and exemptions are ridiculous. I'd be amazed if most people even pay taxes anymore with all the loopholes.
I goofed last year, got a bill, went back and checked yet again, and yup, it was my mistake. I sent in the check (with interest. It _was_ a dumb error on my part). A few years ago, I goofed, and the IRS found it, and sent me a refund--they found an error, and corrected it to my benefit. Whaddyaknow!
Lawrence Lessig would be cast as Frodo. The Ring would have engraved on it "Copyright Sauron, First Age, etc etc etc". Jack Valenti would be cast as Gollum.
Interestingly, executives in software companies don't seem to learn from history/other's mistakes
Much of life seems to be an effort to figure out that you _can_ indeed learn from _other_ peoples' mistakes. Forget about learning from history, this is the USA, we don't learn history here. We make it!
My house is freezing, and I wouldn't be able to survive in my computer room (Basement, AKA utility room) without the heat. Good for corperations, not for me. Anyone else use spare clock cycles for warmth?
When it's cheaper to heat the house with computers than with the furnace, I recommend you replace the furnace. But the computer works well as a featureful space heater.
My big problem with Apple is they dont really seem to care about getting new customers as much as they just want to take advantage of the existing loyal customers. These people arent going to hang around forever. With the charging 129 for an upgrade that finally brought performance to the level originally promised, taking away the formerly free.mac and now this a lot of people are going to see the light finally.
5 years later:
With the charging of 275 for a friggin' skins-only upgrade that cuts out user-created skins, taking away the formerly free.mac, charging for iApps, requiring annual usage fees, betraying us on DRM, requring us to go through an apple portal to use the internet, permitting only one-button mouse use, some of us may someday see the light. Finally. This time I _mean_ it!
The problem for wannabe-Marxists (I'm not implying you're one, just pointing it out) is that the grey stuff doesn't belong to a collective - it belongs to individuals. The proof of that comes every time you look at the wide disparities of productivity between programmers - some suck, some are adequate, some are great, and some are gurus.
Pointing out reality and truth to any Marxist is an exercise in futility. Do something profitable.
I was just teasing. But it seems that you are tailor-made to jump from one thing to another, making you somewhat susceptible to the calls of the marketers and advertisers. Which means you ought to be able to figure out how to do that. But I really have no idea what is involved.
Since so many teachers are so bad, why aren't they being taught to teach? I got _nothing_ by way of such training in graduate school--I guess they assume teaching is no different than presenting your papers/thesis/results.
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If you consider watching a bunch of Hollywood movies a course in economics, then yes.
Remember, Rob Glaser (Real Networks founder) is ex-Microsoft, so he knows about the slick tricks you need to build a successful, mutually beneficial and satisfying business relationship with the customers.
neither of which I expect to see happening. If you had a better idea, a better way, you _could_ see it happening. But you don't, so you can't. I can't either.
You make a good point, but another point is that that makes CS look like a boys' club, and that gets the feminists' panties in a bunch. 'All boys clubs must be destroyed' is the mantra.
Why can't it be voluntary, and the consumer can decide if they want to use a certified/licensed one and pay the $ or a cheaper unlicensed one? Because the consumers are mostly idiots?
comeback: There is in "win".
Any creativity out of Islamic civilization was due to the creativity of the conquered peoples, not anything within Islam. After the conquered peoples were completely crushed/blended in, it all went to pieces.
There is _always_ hope. We have the proles. Oh, wait, this is about optimism.
You're right. I ran into a fellow who teaches corporate law at a U. So I asked him about this. And his answer was that it allows lots of owners (stockholders) while pooling responsibility. IOW, the owners aren't responsible when the company gets sued, beyond any financial risk they have by owning stock. And that flat out stinks, too. Maybe I'm being idealistic, but I tend towards a Distributist view of things: distributed ownership, small companies, small farms. Hey, I think Tolkein did, too!
It seems that you are engaged in more than a little hypocricy to blast one collectivist system without blasting the other. As Enron shows, the fact that it's called a "corporation" rather than a "labor contractor" or "union" does not render it immune to corruption -- any organization where a few people are selected to defend the interests of the many tends to turn into a system where those few people defend their own interests, and to [bleep] with the many.
In Enron's case, the owners _did_ pay: their stock tanked. But they willingly (albeitly stupidly) gave up decision making to someone else. What really sucks is most of us aren't willing to run our own businesses, but just want to melt into the warm embrace of the State or a Large Company that will take care of us.
It's the nature of the State to allow its representatives to do what is illegal for everyone else.
You have some decent points in there, but frankly, unions have earned their bad rep with their never-ending shenanigans. They make individuals part of a collective, and you no longer deal with individuals. In the end you get the best that a collectivist system has to offer: nothing.
Oh oh. It's also coincident with _your_ start. Guess you're making a bigger difference than you ever imagined, eh?
Because that's the only way to tell if someone is in a government-approved victim group. And you need the body count to prove that you really are a righteous company.
I goofed last year, got a bill, went back and checked yet again, and yup, it was my mistake. I sent in the check (with interest. It _was_ a dumb error on my part). A few years ago, I goofed, and the IRS found it, and sent me a refund--they found an error, and corrected it to my benefit. Whaddyaknow!
How about: what if Tolkein had written ?
Lawrence Lessig would be cast as Frodo. The Ring would have engraved on it "Copyright Sauron, First Age, etc etc etc". Jack Valenti would be cast as Gollum.
Much of life seems to be an effort to figure out that you _can_ indeed learn from _other_ peoples' mistakes. Forget about learning from history, this is the USA, we don't learn history here. We make it!
When it's cheaper to heat the house with computers than with the furnace, I recommend you replace the furnace. But the computer works well as a featureful space heater.
5 years later:
With the charging of 275 for a friggin' skins-only upgrade that cuts out user-created skins, taking away the formerly free .mac, charging for iApps, requiring annual usage fees, betraying us on DRM, requring us to go through an apple portal to use the internet, permitting only one-button mouse use, some of us may someday see the light. Finally. This time I _mean_ it!
Pointing out reality and truth to any Marxist is an exercise in futility. Do something profitable.
Nonsense. We are involved all over the world, but the State refuses to close the southern border.
I was just teasing. But it seems that you are tailor-made to jump from one thing to another, making you somewhat susceptible to the calls of the marketers and advertisers. Which means you ought to be able to figure out how to do that. But I really have no idea what is involved.
Some D.C. bureaucrat was fired for using the word "niggardly" properly, only his hearers were idiots.
Since so many teachers are so bad, why aren't they being taught to teach? I got _nothing_ by way of such training in graduate school--I guess they assume teaching is no different than presenting your papers/thesis/results.
Absolutely, and students, GOOD students that are hungry to learn and will do whatever it takes to learn the material are very rare.
IOW, universities are filled with people who shouldn't be there. They are bloated jobs and research reference programs.