Who could imagine that Europeans, with vastly greater exposure to varying cultures than Americans, would be comparatively more tolerant and creative?
Umm, if you think Europe's countries such as England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece an so on are "varying cultures", then you don't get out much. They are all the same type of government with a middle-class culture. And if you think the average European is more accepting of the average Vietnamese, Somali, Brazilian than the average American, then you don't get out much. I'm not saying things are cool in the USA, because they are not, but to accuse the USA of being a mono-culture is just plain weird.
The next time you go to a popular movie filmed in the United States, sit through the credits and look at the names of all the people involved. See how many names there are like Bob Watanabe, Susan Chandrashsekar, Jean-Luc Rodriguez there are. Now check out a film filmed in France or Germany and see what kind of mix of people worked on it. Furthermore, look at the names of the executives of the top corporations in each place.
Yes, I know that much of the film industry is farmed out to other countries, and it's easy to tell what because those units have the same kind of names in them, while the American units have such a strange mix of names. But my point is the USA is full from one end to the other of people marrying across cultures, and that is real and actual acceptance. Allowing foreigners to sweep your floors or run the cash register (the European model) is not really acceptance.
2003 - 62 = 1941 So people who were born in Europe around WWII are now showing poor health? Could it had something to do with the few million tons of bombs dropped, or rather the chemicals put in the atmosphere from the TNT etc components as well as the materials burned on the ground. I wasn't there, so I can't say if the general population could have been experiencing some stress at that time that was later reflected in their children's health.
Wait a minute. You're saying that they can call you when *you* don't want them to, and then sue you for *their* wasted time because you didn't want to talk to them? Nice fucked up country you've got there. Here that constitutes misuse of the telephone system and gets them a £5000 fine *for every infraction* at the very least.
No, that's not what she said, nor what an ex parte judgement is about - it's about the original debt the collection agency is calling about. I don't see how an ex parte could be brought against you if you're not the person named on the debt.
And you can get the source to Windows and do the same.
Are you talking about this? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx I'm not sure what you meant by "you can get the source", but it does not apply to this reader nor hardly anyone else on Slashdot. Does your statement depend on some unusual definition of "you" or "can get"?
However I have had a copy of various variants of Linux's code since near the beginning as well as the compiler's code and apps, and I've read most of it as have many, many people. I doubt there's a need for an "army of $200K math/cs geniuses".
However, your point about the security of the repository is important as repositories have indeed been hacked in the past, and I can't claim that all attacks were discovered.
A nearly worthless no-revenue software company gets a $3 billion offer? Sounds like the 1990's again. I need to have a look at dumping all my tech stocks, hopefully _before_ the crash this time.
First we must not forget that, all else being said, it was the Soviet Union that stopped the Nazis cold and thus ended the threat of fascist expansionism. The world owes a great debt to the Soviets, and especially to the Russians who fought, and to the Russians who fell.
"Former-Soviet here, we might not have lived like princes, but it was a pretty decent life, my mother country of course, joined the USSR out of free will"
Are you seriously claiming that because "you lived a pretty decent life" that the millions of deaths that happened during collectivization are OK? The only countries that anyone claims "Voluntarily joined" the Soviet Union was the Baltic states, and that was really stretching the definition of voluntary. Have another look at The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
As for how these wars affected "our way of life", it affected it very little because we won.
Almost the entire 20th century was filled with hot and cold wars between democratic governments vs autocratic governments, whether fascist, communist, or socialist. Some were in head to head conflicts such as WWII, others were proxy wars such as Korea and Vietnam. By and large, the expansion of autocratic governments has been stopped through military warfare and economic warfare.
As for the first Iraq war, look it up yourself. As for the second Iraq war, I have to agree with you. As for the Afghan war, sometimes it's simply revenge, and sometimes that's appropriate. See Ender's Game.
RE: "The entire attack would not have happened except for a delay by some US political figure whose name I forget at the moment to see the Japanese Ambassador."
You are totally wrong - the attack was absolutely going to happen when it did. The planes were already in the air.
The sole purpose of the ambassador's visit was to present the declaration of war immediately before the attack so that Japan could not be accused of a "sneak attack". It planned to be timed so that there would be only a moments delay between the declaration and the actual attack so that there would not be time to warn the American bases.
RE: "Let the free market work its magic" I'm not sure you understand the anti-poaching agreement or what we're talking about. Anti-poaching agreements are between corporations and are usually secret. It's not part of an employment contract. The equivalent in an employment contract is a "non-compete clause". We're not talking about non-compete clause in the original article; The suggestion that "Companies should start using employment contracts..." is something they already do with non-compete clauses.
What you're suggesting would be excellent if anti-poaching agreements did not exist. So, I suppose we then agree that the government should outlaw such agreements as companies using such agreements will have an unfair advantage and be abrogating the assumptions that 'free market" are based upon.
RE: What I don't like about cops is that they prefer to enforce laws that are easy to enforce. They happily issue lots of traffic tickets, while drug dealers, rapists, murderers, burglars, muggers, etc. are not getting caught.
Enforcement isn't about what's easy or hard so much as it's about the cost to society of the proscribed activity. Car crashes are a big deal because the costs are large. The deaths from accidents far exceeds all the things you mention, and almost all car crashes happen because someone was breaking some law while driving. Although texting while driving hasn't caused near the carnage that drunk driving has, it's becoming more and more of a problem. People are getting killed and maimed due to an activity (texting while driving) that offers little benefit to society. Here's some numbers: http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/statecosts/index.html http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Distracted_Driving/ and there's more like this one: http://www.rmiia.org/auto/traffic_safety/Cost_of_crashes.asp
I suspect you're playing irony here, but most Slashdot readers would not know the history of the companies you named. It would be difficult to come up with an example more evil than the East India Trading company. United Fruit is farther down the list, maybe only in the top ten.
True, sorta, but the worst excesses occurred before government intervention and "appropriate licenses" were required. here's an example: http://www.environmentalcouncil.org/priorities/article.php?x=264 Also, ask anyone who lived in Los Angeles in the 1960-70's
It was a free-for-all before the 1970's , and then we elected representatives who promised to do something about that and they did ( see Nixon, EPA (1970), Clean Water Act(1972) . BTW, I'm an old person, and I remember very well the days before local, state and federal government intervention into protecting the environment. What companies can get away with now-a-days is nothing compared to before government got involved. BTW, many people have made a good case that the reason so many jobs left the USA for third-world countries isn't so much cheap labor, but rather the non-existent environmental rules in those countries.
"a small co-op" Now that brings up something else interesting.
Most people who live outside of cities have telephone service, electricity ONLY because some government entity enabled, cajoled, and forced the larger providers to supply services to the remote areas. See " Rural Electrification Act of 1935" as an example. For those that don't know, those "remote areas" are where our food comes from.
BTW, Some detail about the regulation and the huge rate hike would have been nice.
"I didn't know the government cleans my food for me" Well, what is does is shutdown, fine, or imprison people who sell you food that isn't clean. Do they not make children read Upton Sinclair in school anymore?
Well, sort of. one government service is protecting water rights. I cannot dump my sewage in the stream upstream of you, nor can I dam up the stream and keep all the water for myself while you die. Nor can I dump the waste from my factory or hog farm into the watershed. This is a problem going back for millennia, and one of the reasons that people formed governments.
It has to do with what economists call "tragedy of the commons", a problem that governments are probably the only workable solution.
It's about time somebody started spying on Africa. Everytime they have a TV show about Africa, it's just a bunch of f**king lions and elephants. Where are all the people? What the heck's going on there? It's about time somebody found out.
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40-45 mph:
http://www.nbcnews.com/entertainment/paul-walker-was-real-hero-daughter-heart-soul-his-charity-2D11683842
I suppose even a minor wreck can be fatal if the gas tank is ruptured.
This would be somewhat more interesting if the vendor were AshleyMadison.
Who could imagine that Europeans, with vastly greater exposure to varying cultures than Americans, would be comparatively more tolerant and creative?
Umm, if you think Europe's countries such as England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece an so on are "varying cultures", then you don't get out much. They are all the same type of government with a middle-class culture.
And if you think the average European is more accepting of the average Vietnamese, Somali, Brazilian than the average American, then you don't get out much.
I'm not saying things are cool in the USA, because they are not, but to accuse the USA of being a mono-culture is just plain weird.
The next time you go to a popular movie filmed in the United States, sit through the credits and look at the names of all the people involved. See how many names there are like Bob Watanabe, Susan Chandrashsekar, Jean-Luc Rodriguez there are. Now check out a film filmed in France or Germany and see what kind of mix of people worked on it. Furthermore, look at the names of the executives of the top corporations in each place.
Yes, I know that much of the film industry is farmed out to other countries, and it's easy to tell what because those units have the same kind of names in them, while the American units have such a strange mix of names. But my point is the USA is full from one end to the other of people marrying across cultures, and that is real and actual acceptance. Allowing foreigners to sweep your floors or run the cash register (the European model) is not really acceptance.
2003 - 62 = 1941
So people who were born in Europe around WWII are now showing poor health?
Could it had something to do with the few million tons of bombs dropped, or rather the chemicals put in the atmosphere from the TNT etc components as well as the materials burned on the ground.
I wasn't there, so I can't say if the general population could have been experiencing some stress at that time that was later reflected in their children's health.
Wait a minute. You're saying that they can call you when *you* don't want them to, and then sue you for *their* wasted time because you didn't want to talk to them? Nice fucked up country you've got there. Here that constitutes misuse of the telephone system and gets them a £5000 fine *for every infraction* at the very least.
No, that's not what she said, nor what an ex parte judgement is about - it's about the original debt the collection agency is calling about. I don't see how an ex parte could be brought against you if you're not the person named on the debt.
for example:
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2898/1.html
And you can get the source to Windows and do the same.
Are you talking about this? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx
I'm not sure what you meant by "you can get the source", but it does not apply to this reader nor hardly anyone else on Slashdot. Does your statement depend on some unusual definition of "you" or "can get"?
However I have had a copy of various variants of Linux's code since near the beginning as well as the compiler's code and apps, and I've read most of it as have many, many people. I doubt there's a need for an "army of $200K math/cs geniuses".
However, your point about the security of the repository is important as repositories have indeed been hacked in the past, and I can't claim that all attacks were discovered.
And you can make them yourself! Keep in mind that kids always want the most recent version of anything.
I'm pretty sure Dick Cheny's cot is under an old volcano - the one where he keeps that white cat he likes to pet.
A nearly worthless no-revenue software company gets a $3 billion offer? Sounds like the 1990's again.
I need to have a look at dumping all my tech stocks, hopefully _before_ the crash this time.
First we must not forget that, all else being said, it was the Soviet Union that stopped the Nazis cold and thus ended the threat of fascist expansionism. The world owes a great debt to the Soviets, and especially to the Russians who fought, and to the Russians who fell.
"Former-Soviet here, we might not have lived like princes, but it was a pretty decent life, my mother country of course,
joined the USSR out of free will"
Are you seriously claiming that because "you lived a pretty decent life" that the millions of deaths that happened during collectivization are OK?
The only countries that anyone claims "Voluntarily joined" the Soviet Union was the Baltic states, and that was really stretching the definition of voluntary. Have another look at The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
As for how these wars affected "our way of life", it affected it very little because we won.
Almost the entire 20th century was filled with hot and cold wars between democratic governments vs autocratic governments, whether fascist, communist, or socialist. Some were in head to head conflicts such as WWII, others were proxy wars such as Korea and Vietnam. By and large, the expansion of autocratic governments has been stopped through military warfare and economic warfare.
Please explain how the Korean , Viet Nam, and the Gulf Wars and Afghanistan have protected my "freedom" and "way of life"?
You included Korea and Vietnam. How can you be so ignorant? How can you not know the difference between life under the communist regimes as practiced by the Soviet Union in those days, or even as practiced today in North Korea and Vietnam?
Your way of life, revised:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
http://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/why-north-korea/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeducation_camp
As for the first Iraq war, look it up yourself.
As for the second Iraq war, I have to agree with you.
As for the Afghan war, sometimes it's simply revenge, and sometimes that's appropriate. See Ender's Game.
RE:
"The entire attack would not have happened except for a delay by some US political figure whose name I forget at the moment to see the Japanese Ambassador."
You are totally wrong - the attack was absolutely going to happen when it did. The planes were already in the air.
The sole purpose of the ambassador's visit was to present the declaration of war immediately before the attack so that Japan could not be accused of a "sneak attack". It planned to be timed so that there would be only a moments delay between the declaration and the actual attack so that there would not be time to warn the American bases.
http://www.locomotivegeneral.com/generalparts/images/CowCatcher.jpg
Videos are for these people:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/training-courses-for-outlook-2013-HA104032127.aspx
RE: "Let the free market work its magic" ..." is something they already do with non-compete clauses.
I'm not sure you understand the anti-poaching agreement or what we're talking about. Anti-poaching agreements are between corporations and are usually secret.
It's not part of an employment contract. The equivalent in an employment contract is a "non-compete clause".
We're not talking about non-compete clause in the original article; The suggestion that "Companies should start using employment contracts
What you're suggesting would be excellent if anti-poaching agreements did not exist.
So, I suppose we then agree that the government should outlaw such agreements as companies using such agreements will have an unfair advantage and be abrogating the assumptions that 'free market" are based upon.
"Any smart employee will have at least 1 year of living expenses banked."
and I suppose that's easy to do because everyone graduates from college with a year's living expenses in the bank and no debts
RE:
What I don't like about cops is that they prefer to enforce laws that are easy to enforce. They happily issue lots of traffic tickets, while drug dealers, rapists, murderers, burglars, muggers, etc. are not getting caught.
Enforcement isn't about what's easy or hard so much as it's about the cost to society of the proscribed activity.
Car crashes are a big deal because the costs are large. The deaths from accidents far exceeds all the things you mention, and almost all car crashes happen because someone was breaking some law while driving.
Although texting while driving hasn't caused near the carnage that drunk driving has, it's becoming more and more of a problem. People are getting killed and maimed due to an activity (texting while driving) that offers little benefit to society.
Here's some numbers:
http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/statecosts/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Distracted_Driving/
and there's more like this one:
http://www.rmiia.org/auto/traffic_safety/Cost_of_crashes.asp
I suspect you're playing irony here, but most Slashdot readers would not know the history of the companies you named.
It would be difficult to come up with an example more evil than the East India Trading company.
United Fruit is farther down the list, maybe only in the top ten.
True, sorta, but the worst excesses occurred before government intervention and "appropriate licenses" were required. here's an example: http://www.environmentalcouncil.org/priorities/article.php?x=264
Also, ask anyone who lived in Los Angeles in the 1960-70's
It was a free-for-all before the 1970's , and then we elected representatives who promised to do something about that and they did ( see Nixon, EPA (1970), Clean Water Act(1972) . BTW, I'm an old person, and I remember very well the days before local, state and federal government intervention into protecting the environment.
What companies can get away with now-a-days is nothing compared to before government got involved.
BTW, many people have made a good case that the reason so many jobs left the USA for third-world countries isn't so much cheap labor, but rather the non-existent environmental rules in those countries.
"a small co-op" Now that brings up something else interesting.
Most people who live outside of cities have telephone service, electricity ONLY because some government entity enabled, cajoled, and forced the larger providers to supply services to the remote areas. See " Rural Electrification Act of 1935" as an example.
For those that don't know, those "remote areas" are where our food comes from.
BTW, Some detail about the regulation and the huge rate hike would have been nice.
"I didn't know the government cleans my food for me"
Well, what is does is shutdown, fine, or imprison people who sell you food that isn't clean.
Do they not make children read Upton Sinclair in school anymore?
Well, sort of. one government service is protecting water rights.
I cannot dump my sewage in the stream upstream of you, nor can I dam up the stream and keep all the water for myself while you die.
Nor can I dump the waste from my factory or hog farm into the watershed.
This is a problem going back for millennia, and one of the reasons that people formed governments.
It has to do with what economists call "tragedy of the commons", a problem that governments are probably the only workable solution.
yes you are way off-topic.
Apology NOT accepted.
It's about time somebody started spying on Africa.
Everytime they have a TV show about Africa, it's just a bunch of f**king lions and elephants. Where are all the people?
What the heck's going on there? It's about time somebody found out.