Any LED bulb under $50 -is- a nightlight, or an accent light anyways.
The $100 "brighter" ones are supposedly suitable replacements..... but no lighting store carries them. Perhaps these expensive ones work well for rich "green" folk, or those living off the grid.
Based on the disappointments we've seen with the $10 models, LED will be dismissed and a disappointment for a WHILE. I don't think Philips is in it for night lights, so you have to trust they see a future. Developments will continue on a "slow" pace (slow because we're impatiently waiting for the big breakthrough product at the _store_).
Well then.. when broadband costs the same as dialup.. you should be just fine sticking to your guns and using dialup.
Due to scales of economy, you might be given a broadband modem tuned down to 50K. But that will be OK with you.
I'm looking at generic very high speed bandwidth as a general purpose utility. Would be nice to actually CHOOSE between cable companies (video providers), for once. Anyone remember how we were supposed to get cable competition? I do.
oh my god will_die please stop, reading your posts is causing a headache of extreme nature that you must understand. first i thought you were posting this way on purpose as some kind of inverse meta-meta-irony to another poster but now i see it is your style and it hurts. You do see what it is that is wrong with your posts and are doing it on purpose correct? There is considerable risk of damage to the space time continuum if you persist.
If you are going to make up false statistics, at least make them BELIEVABLE.
Besides accusing 99% of the population who are hit by malware of being thieves and you are likely to know what you are saying is untrue. malware-on-USB-drives and picture frames, browser hijacking...
>Except that Israel, unlike most of the Arab nations that surround it, isn't a 99% monoculture. It's roughly 75% Jewish, and 25% Muslim and Christian. Ask yourself how this could happen if they're into ethnic cleansing?
You're ignoring simple math so you can argue semantics. I notice your percentages add up to 100%, without containing any Palestians. How is that possible for you to arrive at such numbers??
Israel is not "75%" Jewish unless you dismiss the right of return for the people born THERE, in favor of people born on another continent.
The discussion SHOULD be about people who were BORN ON this strip of land, being able to live there in peace. Jews, Arabs, Druids and Jedi. Really. If everyone agreed on that, peace would break out like wildfire.
Ahh... but there's the problem... that old "right of return" issue again. Those pesky Palestinians refusing to tear up the deeds to their stolen homes.
The thing is, the current Israeli strategy of waiting for the Palestinian diaspora to die off of old age in exile... that's not a great strategy.
These 2 people can beat each other senseless for all I care.
Iran's not a very nice place - worse in most ways - but Iran's not my business because my country (USA) does not have a NUCLEAR security treaty with Iran... it does with Israel.
US tax money (gifts) also account for a huge chunk of the Israeli economy and military budget. Not every American who criticises Israel has something against Israel existing or something against Jews.
Many Americans are concerned because this conflict is a waste of US taxpayer money, and this conflict is also a recruitment poster for extremists. Since Israel is so well defended the extremists now plan attacks on easier targets (Americans).
>If my country were invaded and occupied by a foreign power, I would ensure that I obey the cease-fires and give peace a chance, and not hide like a coward amongst my own women and children as I target the enemy's women and children.
All guerilla wars are spun this way. The danger of good vs. evil propoganda is that someday you might WANT peace, and when you try for it one of your fellow comrades will put a bullet in your head. That's already happened to the last Israeli president who wanted peace.
Israel survives as a "pure" culture by ethnically herding native born non-Jews into refugee camps. Chasing people into camps and then not allowing them to leave counts as herding. A constant state of war provides justification.
The simple truth is peace would destroy Israel, demographically speaking. The "right of return" would mean a majority Palestinian state of Israel.
Houses that were occupied by the same families for hundreds of years get taken and turned over to colonial settlers born in far away places like Moscow.
The thing is, apartheid ended gracefully in South Africa because both sides didn't brainwash themselves into a corner, and produced sane leaders who negotiated an end to minority rule. I don't see that happening here.
Try Ubuntu, and enable 'backports'. This is not some strange repo run by a non-affiliad group.. it's reasonably supported by Ubuntu itself.
Yes, you have to actually do something to get the new versions, but that's the only sane option: you don't normally WANT new software versions slipped in with security updates ("hey, where did feature XX go/change?").
As an old timer who used to suffer the pain of mixxing in 'daag' or 'extras' on Red Hat/Fedora... or mixing 'Debian unstable' on a released Debian... I can finally say someone has done Linux right.
I still know "long time Linux" users who ask the most predictable questions of me as if I still run Fedora... "how did you get DVDs/mp3s working?", package conflicts when trying to install MythTV, wireless driver issues... ugh.
Some of these people actually INSTALL Fedora for others, in a Helpdesk capacity. They hear good things about Ubuntu, but won't trial a new desktop distro, and assume innovations will find their way back into Fedora. That's true of desktop tweaks, but not so true of the much larger org-run repository.
I do add third party repos, but unlike Fedora Extras/dagg weirs/etc none of these repos try to much with my core libs.
>This is the exact same thing as buying a copy of Red Hat linux (or any other commercial distribution). In fact, this is the entire business model of Red Hat, Inc.
100% incorrect.
Never mind the article, if you read the summary carefully, it's established that the victim is being hit with a payment demand because of the download.
Now, please back up your claim and document a single such instance where:
1) Someone downloaded something freely from redhat.com. 2) The downloader was hit with a payment DEMAND that is FOR the download itself.
Not only does Red Hat not operate "exactly" like this, but no other Linux vendor does either. You should try Linux instead of talking about it.
You actually believe Darl's goal is to win? His goal is to get his EXPENSES covered. A lot of these expenses are tax-deductible also. There never was a chance (even if SCO won) for SCO to be reborn as some kind of solid company.
Aw, what's the use of going through all that trouble if you can't have Bill O'Reilly announce he's gay?... and is even such an admission NECESSARY, I would ask?
Neither microsoft nor Toshiba are startups by any measure.
Agreed - but what's your point?
Your comment has nothing to do with my debunking of the "QA is screwing off instead of testing" mentality evident in the original story and several comments.
I don't see where the Microsoft and Toshiba 'startups' comment comes from either. Microsoft and Toshiba are irrelevant here -- this is a bug in a BINARY closed-source third party driver.
Trust me I'm NO FAN of Microsoft (read my 10+ years of posts here) - this is a supplier problem. Ultimately it becomes Microsoft's problem, and you can bet for now on they'll demand more completed-tests documentation from their suppliers. Which is a good thing, as it will force the cowboy programmers at startups to sacrifice a bit more of their time on documentation, instead of racing ahead with undocumented processes.
If anything, this fiasco shines a big light on just how dangerous it is to bet your product on Windows, or more specifically, closed-source stacks.
If a software division is letting QA "test" all on their own, that's a recipe for disaster... and it's the head of engineering at fault.
See, software testing does not occur in a vacuum, no more than developers code without a list of requirements from Sales or Marketing.
Engineering takes takes the requirements, use that to produce an agreed upon set of specifications.
QA follows the same model... they take the software specs and derive a set of effective tests.... tests which are agreed upon by Engineering, and signed off on.
When I did QA, it was mostly for startups who lacked this kind of process. The result was QA was always 2 steps behind software that continually morphed: hardware changed, or the customer changed their mind. I'm not placing the blame on any 1 group here... I come from Support, then QA, and now develop. Startups can be rough.
But at the end of the day, not documenting and agreeing on what the product and tests should be will cost you big time.. maybe 7 out of 10 times.
Microsoft's been crowing about XB360 sales, even though a GOOD PERCENTAGE of those are consumers replacing their 2 year old dead game consoles (not covered under warranty).
As a result of bad manufacturing or design, Microsoft is skewing console sales stats which is GOOD for them.
Nope. It doesn't hurt your credit score. There are things that do hurt your score, like riding your credit limit over 50% on all your cards, or flipping a card like this when it is your "only" card. With 2 other accounts 5-10 years old, this doesn't even blip. My credit is in the high 700s every year when I check.
Yeah, I saw this got marked troll. There's someone abusing the moderation system. The/. digg/bury moderation system is very "cathedral".. some people get picked to moderate all the time, and I haven't been asked in maybe 5 years. Someone who gets picked often does not like me, and the irony is I've probably been a faithful Slashdot poster for longer than half of that moderator's life.
>I think that many would agree that the blu ray decision was a factor in blu ray winning the format wars, and that this has long term strategic significance to Sony, most specifically in keeping the living room away from MS, who bet on HD DVD.
As far as Microsoft's bet... Microsoft didn't bet anything_ on HD-DVD: 1) They just offered an add-on player and let their fanboys bet THEIR money on HD-DVD. 2) They threw a hundred mil or so at Toshiba. Toshiba lost a LOT of standing with consumers.
Toshiba's reputation sucks now... ask folks who bought last year's Walmart Toshiba HD-DVD players and all the movies they could. Funny how this debacle does not touch Microsoft any.
I don't think Microsoft wanted either format to gain critical mass - wide and early adoption is a threat to Microsoft's goal of 'services', including pay per view and digital downloads. Microsoft set HD video back by a year, that's all they got and that's all they wanted.
>Actually I just bought a brand new PS3 from Sony for $250.
I did the same exact thing last year for $299, got the 40GB model. I bought the PS3 mainly for the BluRay player.
I did not WANT a credit card out of the deal (even if it is a Chase card), but I read the fine print:
$100 off a PS3,
NO INTEREST 12 months..
AND no yearly card fee?
I paid off the PS3 early at 10 months, the card is blank, and soon to be canceled. I told others, but no one believed the terms and I know 3 people who paid full price anyways. Wacky..
Exepackers do NOT save you space, though! If anything, they're a memory bloat because more often than not you have the packed and the unpacked version of the program in ram, eating up space needlessly, so I stopped using them. Ram is precious, HD space isn't.
+1 on what the other person replying said.
Your statement IS accurate if you are comparing helloworld.exe or some other vanilla EXE file... but if you embed lots of resources into the executable then it gets to be a big-time large file. In an ideal world, those resources would not be in the EXE... and they would not be un-compressed BMP and WAV either.
Companies will build these "into" the EXE under the false impression it would prevent competitors or consumers from hacking in their own images, copying the data, etc.
So, yes, the big 3 must die... because, especially with a Democratic government, it is the only way to kill the UAW.
Your comment SO illustrates the GOP mindset... unions are our automatic enemy... have to kill them off, no matter WHAT it takes. I have a feeling you just said in public what your group only wants said in public, over expensive scotch and cigars.
So what nationality are you if you are not American? Or are you like many of the Bush administration... living here (for now) with "dual" nationality, to act as a fifth column?
Very good post, thank you. Please allow me to make one small emphasis for all the Wolf Blitzer's of the world (Google that folks - see how Wolf repeated the "$70/hour" number even AFTER it was debunked... and his show never corrected it).
corporate pensions are, by law, supposed to be covered as they are earned by contributions to the corporate pension funds, which are to be invested so as to assure the ability to pay the pensions when due...
Another reason to play with the pensions is it's free company money if they hit bankruptcy... all they need to do is juggle the books, gut the pension, and slice up the business... like that hedge fund did to Polaroid a decade ago. Polaroid wasn't doing so well, but it was still profitable.. and these takeover investors shut it down and shuffled around the pension, screwing many "life" workers (some still working after FOURTY years, and didn't get a dime).
Allowing corporations to play shell games with pensions is part of what's hurting American competitiveness. Besides encouraging huge risks, it also makes companies easy targets for hostile takeovers.
Update your PS3.. you can stream from hulu.com to your PS3 via the browser since around December 10. The PS3 brower & flash is sometimes flakey though.... wait until after the first commercial before you try to set the video to full-screen.
The whole hulu thing with the PS3 almost has us canceling cable to the savings of $100 a month.
Last.fm is (among many uses) for finding 'new' music you will probably like.
If you're an older demographic (like me, 38) you're much more likely to keep listening to the same ACDC and Metallica crap that all the (mostly Clear Channel) towers spew. New music usually requires a time and an emotional investment, scarce resources as you get older.
No, you're wrong, and you're twisting what was said to support your argument. First, you chose not to comment on the lie about US autoworkers wages being "300% higher" than Honda/Toyota USA. I don't consider it a small point... especially when factcheck shows cases where Toyota USA employees WAGES are HIGHER than Detroits.
It's also wrong to suggest that 100% of Detroit's competition comes from Honda USA and Toyota USA. See, Honda and Toyota face import quotas, and once exceeding that quota they can only build in the US. The Lexus stands for ("Luxury EXport to US")... the economics favors keeping production of the big-ticket items (Lexus, etc) back home in Japan.
Detroit does not even TRY to compete with what's made in Kentucky because THOSE CARS are economy vehicles... Corolla and Prius. Detroit's always made small cheap cars as a last resort, and consumers know it and stay away.
Detroit's would be in trouble if US autoworkers worked for FREE. Try looking at what Toyota USA pays their CEO, and what the ratio of Toyota managers to workers are. Detroit's #1 problem is management is structured follows the same model as the late years of the Ottoman Empire.
God this "culture war" is really out of hand. Some people so despise "unions" that they'll make shit up about their pay, and spread FUD to prevent solutions. Where's the anger at CEO pay of FINANCIAL companies getting tax money bailouts?
It's snobbery. Folks in dirty denim working a trade should feel "lucky to have a job", and get a HELL of a lot more pressure for pay cuts on a 25Bn bailout.
However when it's a 8 Trillion bailout for wallstreet (not just the 800Bn bailout, but the up to 8 trillion asset guarantees quietly passed) it's borderline communism to criticize the rich conservative elites of Manhattan, and CEO types elsewhere.
It's all just another chapter in the culture wars, which somehow morphed into a war against the middle class.
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Any LED bulb under $50 -is- a nightlight, or an accent light anyways.
The $100 "brighter" ones are supposedly suitable replacements.. ... but no lighting store carries them. Perhaps these expensive ones work well for rich "green" folk, or those living off the grid.
Based on the disappointments we've seen with the $10 models, LED will be dismissed and a disappointment for a WHILE. I don't think Philips is in it for night lights, so you have to trust they see a future. Developments will continue on a "slow" pace (slow because we're impatiently waiting for the big breakthrough product at the _store_).
Well then.. when broadband costs the same as dialup.. you should be just fine sticking to your guns and using dialup.
Due to scales of economy, you might be given a broadband modem tuned down to 50K. But that will be OK with you.
I'm looking at generic very high speed bandwidth as a general purpose utility. Would be nice to actually CHOOSE between cable companies (video providers), for once. Anyone remember how we were supposed to get cable competition? I do.
oh my god will_die please stop, reading your posts is causing a headache of extreme nature that you must understand. first i thought you were posting this way on purpose as some kind of inverse meta-meta-irony to another poster but now i see it is your style and it hurts. You do see what it is that is wrong with your posts and are doing it on purpose correct? There is considerable risk of damage to the space time continuum if you persist.
>So does 99.99% of windows malware.
If you are going to make up false statistics, at least make them BELIEVABLE.
Besides accusing 99% of the population who are hit by malware of being thieves and you are likely to know what you are saying is untrue. malware-on-USB-drives and picture frames, browser hijacking...
>Except that Israel, unlike most of the Arab nations that surround it, isn't a 99% monoculture. It's roughly 75% Jewish, and 25% Muslim and Christian. Ask yourself how this could happen if they're into ethnic cleansing?
You're ignoring simple math so you can argue semantics. I notice your percentages add up to 100%, without containing any Palestians. How is that possible for you to arrive at such numbers??
Israel is not "75%" Jewish unless you dismiss the right of return for the people born THERE, in favor of people born on another continent.
The discussion SHOULD be about people who were BORN ON this strip of land, being able to live there in peace. Jews, Arabs, Druids and Jedi. Really. If everyone agreed on that, peace would break out like wildfire.
Ahh... but there's the problem... that old "right of return" issue again. Those pesky Palestinians refusing to tear up the deeds to their stolen homes.
The thing is, the current Israeli strategy of waiting for the Palestinian diaspora to die off of old age in exile... that's not a great strategy.
These 2 people can beat each other senseless for all I care.
Iran's not a very nice place - worse in most ways - but Iran's not my business because my country (USA) does not have a NUCLEAR security treaty with Iran... it does with Israel.
US tax money (gifts) also account for a huge chunk of the Israeli economy and military budget. Not every American who criticises Israel has something against Israel existing or something against Jews.
Many Americans are concerned because this conflict is a waste of US taxpayer money, and this conflict is also a recruitment poster for extremists. Since Israel is so well defended the extremists now plan attacks on easier targets (Americans).
>If my country were invaded and occupied by a foreign power, I would ensure that I obey the cease-fires and give peace a chance, and not hide like a coward amongst my own women and children as I target the enemy's women and children.
All guerilla wars are spun this way. The danger of good vs. evil propoganda is that someday you might WANT peace, and when you try for it one of your fellow comrades will put a bullet in your head. That's already happened to the last Israeli president who wanted peace.
Israel survives as a "pure" culture by ethnically herding native born non-Jews into refugee camps. Chasing people into camps and then not allowing them to leave counts as herding. A constant state of war provides justification.
The simple truth is peace would destroy Israel, demographically speaking. The "right of return" would mean a majority Palestinian state of Israel.
Houses that were occupied by the same families for hundreds of years get taken and turned over to colonial settlers born in far away places like Moscow.
The thing is, apartheid ended gracefully in South Africa because both sides didn't brainwash themselves into a corner, and produced sane leaders who negotiated an end to minority rule. I don't see that happening here.
Try Ubuntu, and enable 'backports'. This is not some strange repo run by a non-affiliad group.. it's reasonably supported by Ubuntu itself.
Yes, you have to actually do something to get the new versions, but that's the only sane option: you don't normally WANT new software versions slipped in with security updates ("hey, where did feature XX go/change?").
As an old timer who used to suffer the pain of mixxing in 'daag' or 'extras' on Red Hat/Fedora... or mixing 'Debian unstable' on a released Debian... I can finally say someone has done Linux right.
I still know "long time Linux" users who ask the most predictable questions of me as if I still run Fedora... "how did you get DVDs/mp3s working?", package conflicts when trying to install MythTV, wireless driver issues... ugh.
Some of these people actually INSTALL Fedora for others, in a Helpdesk capacity. They hear good things about Ubuntu, but won't trial a new desktop distro, and assume innovations will find their way back into Fedora. That's true of desktop tweaks, but not so true of the much larger org-run repository.
I do add third party repos, but unlike Fedora Extras/dagg weirs/etc none of these repos try to much with my core libs.
Well, I'm sure China considers this a plot to hamper their technology acquisition efforts. :)
>This is the exact same thing as buying a copy of Red Hat linux (or any other commercial distribution). In fact, this is the entire business model of Red Hat, Inc.
100% incorrect.
Never mind the article, if you read the summary carefully, it's established that the victim is being hit with a payment demand because of the download.
Now, please back up your claim and document a single such instance where:
1) Someone downloaded something freely from redhat.com.
2) The downloader was hit with a payment DEMAND that is FOR the download itself.
Not only does Red Hat not operate "exactly" like this, but no other Linux vendor does either. You should try Linux instead of talking about it.
I think it's a brilliant plan. How much money do you think he and his cronies managed to spend?
That's a GOAL not a problem.
When this finishes, I'm sure he can retire if he chooses... or go to work for a patent troll. Or as a lobbyist in the GOP.
This isn't about making things, or ethics.
You actually believe Darl's goal is to win?
His goal is to get his EXPENSES covered.
A lot of these expenses are tax-deductible also.
There never was a chance (even if SCO won) for SCO to be reborn as some kind of solid company.
Aw, what's the use of going through all that trouble if you can't have Bill O'Reilly announce he's gay? ... and is even such an admission NECESSARY, I would ask?
Neither microsoft nor Toshiba are startups by any measure.
Agreed - but what's your point?
Your comment has nothing to do with my debunking of the "QA is screwing off instead of testing" mentality evident in the original story and several comments.
I don't see where the Microsoft and Toshiba 'startups' comment comes from either. Microsoft and Toshiba are irrelevant here -- this is a bug in a BINARY closed-source third party driver.
Trust me I'm NO FAN of Microsoft (read my 10+ years of posts here) - this is a supplier problem. Ultimately it becomes Microsoft's problem, and you can bet for now on they'll demand more completed-tests documentation from their suppliers. Which is a good thing, as it will force the cowboy programmers at startups to sacrifice a bit more of their time on documentation, instead of racing ahead with undocumented processes.
If anything, this fiasco shines a big light on just how dangerous it is to bet your product on Windows, or more specifically, closed-source stacks.
"evidence of QA.. slacking off"
These comments routinely come from two groups:
1) Software Developers
2) Joe the Plumber
Or put another way: elitism or ignorance.
If a software division is letting QA "test" all on their own, that's a recipe for disaster... and it's the head of engineering at fault.
See, software testing does not occur in a vacuum, no more than developers code without a list of requirements from Sales or Marketing.
Engineering takes takes the requirements, use that to produce an agreed upon set of specifications.
QA follows the same model... they take the software specs and derive a set of effective tests.... tests which are agreed upon by Engineering, and signed off on.
When I did QA, it was mostly for startups who lacked this kind of process. The result was QA was always 2 steps behind software that continually morphed: hardware changed, or the customer changed their mind. I'm not placing the blame on any 1 group here... I come from Support, then QA, and now develop. Startups can be rough.
But at the end of the day, not documenting and agreeing on what the product and tests should be will cost you big time.. maybe 7 out of 10 times.
Microsoft's been crowing about XB360 sales, even though a GOOD PERCENTAGE of those are consumers replacing their 2 year old dead game consoles (not covered under warranty).
As a result of bad manufacturing or design, Microsoft is skewing console sales stats which is GOOD for them.
Maybe it's starting to learn?
Nope. It doesn't hurt your credit score.
There are things that do hurt your score, like riding your credit limit over 50% on all your cards, or flipping a card like this when it is your "only" card. With 2 other accounts 5-10 years old, this doesn't even blip. My credit is in the high 700s every year when I check.
Yeah, I saw this got marked troll. There's someone abusing the moderation system. /. digg/bury moderation system is very "cathedral".. some people get picked to moderate all the time, and I haven't been asked in maybe 5 years. Someone who gets picked often does not like me, and the irony is I've probably been a faithful Slashdot poster for longer than half of that moderator's life.
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>I think that many would agree that the blu ray decision was a factor in blu ray winning the format wars, and that this has long term strategic significance to Sony, most specifically in keeping the living room away from MS, who bet on HD DVD.
As far as Microsoft's bet... Microsoft didn't bet anything_ on HD-DVD:
1) They just offered an add-on player and let their fanboys bet THEIR money on HD-DVD.
2) They threw a hundred mil or so at Toshiba. Toshiba lost a LOT of standing with consumers.
Toshiba's reputation sucks now... ask folks who bought last year's Walmart Toshiba HD-DVD players and all the movies they could. Funny how this debacle does not touch Microsoft any.
I don't think Microsoft wanted either format to gain critical mass - wide and early adoption is a threat to Microsoft's goal of 'services', including pay per view and digital downloads. Microsoft set HD video back by a year, that's all they got and that's all they wanted.
>Actually I just bought a brand new PS3 from Sony for $250.
I did the same exact thing last year for $299, got the 40GB model. I bought the PS3 mainly for the BluRay player.
I did not WANT a credit card out of the deal (even if it is a Chase card), but I read the fine print:
$100 off a PS3,
NO INTEREST 12 months..
AND no yearly card fee?
I paid off the PS3 early at 10 months, the card is blank, and soon to be canceled. I told others, but no one believed the terms and I know 3 people who paid full price anyways. Wacky..
Exepackers do NOT save you space, though! If anything, they're a memory bloat because more often than not you have the packed and the unpacked version of the program in ram, eating up space needlessly, so I stopped using them. Ram is precious, HD space isn't.
+1 on what the other person replying said.
Your statement IS accurate if you are comparing helloworld.exe or some other vanilla EXE file... but if you embed lots of resources into the executable then it gets to be a big-time large file. In an ideal world, those resources would not be in the EXE... and they would not be un-compressed BMP and WAV either.
Companies will build these "into" the EXE under the false impression it would prevent competitors or consumers from hacking in their own images, copying the data, etc.
So, yes, the big 3 must die... because, especially with a Democratic government, it is the only way to kill the UAW.
Your comment SO illustrates the GOP mindset... unions are our automatic enemy... have to kill them off, no matter WHAT it takes. I have a feeling you just said in public what your group only wants said in public, over expensive scotch and cigars.
So what nationality are you if you are not American? Or are you like many of the Bush administration... living here (for now) with "dual" nationality, to act as a fifth column?
Very good post, thank you. Please allow me to make one small emphasis for all the Wolf Blitzer's of the world (Google that folks - see how Wolf repeated the "$70/hour" number even AFTER it was debunked... and his show never corrected it).
corporate pensions are, by law, supposed to be covered as they are earned by contributions to the corporate pension funds, which are to be invested so as to assure the ability to pay the pensions when due...
Another reason to play with the pensions is it's free company money if they hit bankruptcy... all they need to do is juggle the books, gut the pension, and slice up the business... like that hedge fund did to Polaroid a decade ago. Polaroid wasn't doing so well, but it was still profitable.. and these takeover investors shut it down and shuffled around the pension, screwing many "life" workers (some still working after FOURTY years, and didn't get a dime).
Allowing corporations to play shell games with pensions is part of what's hurting American competitiveness. Besides encouraging huge risks, it also makes companies easy targets for hostile takeovers.
Update your PS3.. you can stream from hulu.com to your PS3 via the browser since around December 10.
The PS3 brower & flash is sometimes flakey though.... wait until after the first commercial before you try to set the video to full-screen.
The whole hulu thing with the PS3 almost has us canceling cable to the savings of $100 a month.
What an enlightening comment. Are you from Kentucky, Alaska, or Russia? It's hard to tell given your tone.
Last.fm is (among many uses) for finding 'new' music you will probably like.
If you're an older demographic (like me, 38) you're much more likely to keep listening to the same ACDC and Metallica crap that all the (mostly Clear Channel) towers spew. New music usually requires a time and an emotional investment, scarce resources as you get older.
No, you're wrong, and you're twisting what was said to support your argument.
First, you chose not to comment on the lie about US autoworkers wages being "300% higher" than Honda/Toyota USA.
I don't consider it a small point... especially when factcheck shows cases where Toyota USA employees WAGES are HIGHER than Detroits.
It's also wrong to suggest that 100% of Detroit's competition comes from Honda USA and Toyota USA. See, Honda and Toyota face import quotas, and once exceeding that quota they can only build in the US. The Lexus stands for ("Luxury EXport to US")... the economics favors keeping production of the big-ticket items (Lexus, etc) back home in Japan.
Detroit does not even TRY to compete with what's made in Kentucky because THOSE CARS are economy vehicles... Corolla and Prius. Detroit's always made small cheap cars as a last resort, and consumers know it and stay away.
Detroit's would be in trouble if US autoworkers worked for FREE. Try looking at what Toyota USA pays their CEO, and what the ratio of Toyota managers to workers are. Detroit's #1 problem is management is structured follows the same model as the late years of the Ottoman Empire.
God this "culture war" is really out of hand. Some people so despise "unions" that they'll make shit up about their pay, and spread FUD to prevent solutions. Where's the anger at CEO pay of FINANCIAL companies getting tax money bailouts?
It's snobbery. Folks in dirty denim working a trade should feel "lucky to have a job", and get a HELL of a lot more pressure for pay cuts on a 25Bn bailout.
However when it's a 8 Trillion bailout for wallstreet (not just the 800Bn bailout, but the up to 8 trillion asset guarantees quietly passed) it's borderline communism to criticize the rich conservative elites of Manhattan, and CEO types elsewhere.
It's all just another chapter in the culture wars, which somehow morphed into a war against the middle class.