Yelp used to host a lot of tech meetups at their headquarters in SF. So I've met a few Yelpers. The engineers seemed like your typical startup drones - nice enough but pretty clueless.
The managers on the other hand seemed really shady. Like they know just how crooked the company is, but goddamit they hope to get rich based on that crookedness.
I've edited the map so often that Google now *trusts* me. The last few edits were accepted immediately, apparently without human review. I'm really not sure how I feel about that.
I'd feel a lot better if the law made all user-contributed data public domain. I am very happy to contribute to the common patrimony, to the general expansion of human knowledge. I don't particularly mind that Google makes money off that information. But I really hate that Google has the right to exclude the public from data the public created - at any time, for any reason or no reason, no warning required, no redress possible.
The law must be changed. That which was created by the public most remain property of the public.
Almost all workers are capable of producing far more than they require to live. For this vast majority, it is sufficient to restrain the capitalist property owners from robbing them. While should a company - a legal fiction created by the state - be allowed to book a *profit* when its labor costs are being subsidized by society?
Allow workers to keep more of the fruits of their own labor. If the propertied classes have neither the Christian magnanimity nor the political good sense to cooperate? Seize and redistribute the means of production.
ALL workers are "wealth creators". The education/training canard is just a distraction. The question is: Shall workers retain enough of the fruits of their labors so that they may eat, live indoors, and otherwise "have a life"? Or shell workers be forced to accept a starvation wage, so that all the remaining fruits of their labor may flow into the pockets of capital owners?
Sub-living-wage employment is a drag on society. Those "businesses" survive only because the public subsidizes their labor costs - directly through welfare programs or indirectly through crime and social degradation. It is therefore a net economic benefit if those loss-making (before subsidy) businesses are eliminated from the market.
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Speak little
Write nothing down
Join the Software Workers Union. One big union for the whole industry.
When we strike, we will turn off the whole internet. Solidarity forever!
Ahah - the theatrical performance was a success!
This is pure theatre. Your iPhone (or Android) is p0wned before it leaves the factory. It's DUH LAW.
Exactly the same way.
Oil companies are rich because of database entries that say they own the land and production equipment.
Putingrad.... is that in Arkansas?
Silicon Valley capitalists sure do love oppressive totalitarian regimes.
Remember when Google used to have *good* search results? I miss the old, honest PageRank algorithm.
What a surprise... a kangaroo court sided with Big Money against the public interest. It's DUH LAW!
Just make sure your competing website is also backed by hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from the public by the Quantitative Easing programs.
Yelp used to host a lot of tech meetups at their headquarters in SF. So I've met a few Yelpers. The engineers seemed like your typical startup drones - nice enough but pretty clueless.
The managers on the other hand seemed really shady. Like they know just how crooked the company is, but goddamit they hope to get rich based on that crookedness.
In the near future, possession of a Slashdot account will by itself be sufficient for a wrongthink conviction.
It seems that a lot of sites automatically crank up the "fuck you, user" settings when accessed on a mobile device.
I've edited the map so often that Google now *trusts* me. The last few edits were accepted immediately, apparently without human review. I'm really not sure how I feel about that.
I'd feel a lot better if the law made all user-contributed data public domain. I am very happy to contribute to the common patrimony, to the general expansion of human knowledge. I don't particularly mind that Google makes money off that information. But I really hate that Google has the right to exclude the public from data the public created - at any time, for any reason or no reason, no warning required, no redress possible.
The law must be changed. That which was created by the public most remain property of the public.
How much do they pay you per post?
Almost all workers are capable of producing far more than they require to live. For this vast majority, it is sufficient to restrain the capitalist property owners from robbing them. While should a company - a legal fiction created by the state - be allowed to book a *profit* when its labor costs are being subsidized by society?
Allow workers to keep more of the fruits of their own labor. If the propertied classes have neither the Christian magnanimity nor the political good sense to cooperate? Seize and redistribute the means of production.
But muh FACTS!!!!!1!!1!
Your reference link is some random bullshit blog entry? Next!
Do worry - a healthy majority of Democrats will also vote Yes on the Stasi bill. Tyranny has string bipartisan support.
We have a full employment economy
What a delightful fantasyland you inhabit...
ALL workers are "wealth creators". The education/training canard is just a distraction. The question is: Shall workers retain enough of the fruits of their labors so that they may eat, live indoors, and otherwise "have a life"? Or shell workers be forced to accept a starvation wage, so that all the remaining fruits of their labor may flow into the pockets of capital owners?
Sub-living-wage employment is a drag on society. Those "businesses" survive only because the public subsidizes their labor costs - directly through welfare programs or indirectly through crime and social degradation. It is therefore a net economic benefit if those loss-making (before subsidy) businesses are eliminated from the market.
Says the shill.
Well, you're definitely a fool, we agree on that...