Modding would be replaced with DLC packs, none of which would be free. Any attempts to mod the client or server would be construed as cheating. The Xbox would be the primary platform and the PC would be considered as second-tier.
Russia's not the country of freedom that some think it would be, as freedom is conditional to having a large amount of assets and/or not showing any opposition whatsoever to the current leader. In the US, the thresholds for such activity are much higher.
Of course, a fair and impartial trial will also require him to accept a very high likeliness of losing the case, based on the current evidence against him.
As an industry, they don't need monopoly power. Their main competitor, labor unions, has less market share due to regulations that only apply to labor unions.
In addition, the staffing industry lives off the idea of regulatory evasion, which has a favorable side effect of increased disposability. Both of these negate the need to pursue specific monopoly power.
If there's freedom in RTW, it can be found by applying it to all forms of third-party/indirect representation.
That kind of action is how labor unions ended up gaining power in the early 20th Century. If similar happens in the 21st, expect a similar swing.
It is also why Northern companies figured out that being reasonable to their own would get rid of 90% of such threats. By "winning the hearts and minds" of the population, it inoculates the company from many threats, without the financial or PR expenses of litigative hit-teams. Unfortunately, the lesson has been lost on the South.
The day that Google or Apple tries that stuff is when their competitors start winning significant market share from both.
Actually, the best method for avoiding union interference is to not treat employees like shit, thus removing incentive to join a union.
Agreed. Companies of Northern/Midwestern states figured that treating their employees with respect was the best and cheapest way to limit (and prevent) unionization.
Unfortunately, most of those states, save Ohio in the Midwest, have been overtaken by political interests that ramrodded the Southern way of business. To undo that will be like Hercules cleaning the Augean stables.
On the other hand, I hear Walmart does quite well with their "burn anyone who so much as mentions the word 'union' alive" policy, so I could be way off base.
That's not so much Wal-Mart but a prevalent Southern mindset for any company wishing to do business in the South (or in sufficiently Southernized states like Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin). Volkswagen's intent to form works councils was met with political interests that intimidated enough people to vote against it - out of fear. Similar unionization efforts with other employers have received the same "kill it with fire, no matter how much it costs!" philosophy.
The Southern idea is that every resource on Earth and above must be expended to kill off unionization, then follow it up with an employers' union - like a staffing agency or temporary labor service.
If it's a labor union, then yes. If it's an employers' union (such as a staffing agency, temporary labor service, or the like), then it can be a condition of employment.
It doesn't even matter. Google shares a community with those companies. Find a need - Fill a need. If their neighbors start getting pissed at the teamsters then engineers from google will go over there and say "hey guys, want to try out our new automated buses?"...
On the contrary, Google should give the Teamsters a wide berth since "interesting things" tend to happen to entities that oppose them (which are legitimized by a Supreme Court decision). Such engineers would find themselves on the wrong end of things when their buses have otherwise unexplained low reliability.
They're terrible at their jobs. They're really good at getting what they want TODAY. But they piss people off and no one wants to do business with them in the long term. Their whole business model is to monopolize labor so that you can't do business with anyone else. And using that as leverage they just make fucking rediculious demands. You're left with two options... either give them what they want or you have no labor period. Well... that's not fucking acceptable. If I could do business with a dozen different unions and none of them wanted to give me my price that would be one thing. But if I can only deal with ONE union then its the same as dealing with one corporation. They're under no pressure to be reasonable because you have no options.
That applies to staffing agencies, which are no more different than labor unions - yet don't get crushed. Same bad representation for the staff under them, bad contracts for the larger part, and nobody really gets a good deal in the process.
Why do staffing agencies, temporary labor and the like get a pass despite being a union in every function save for being an employer's tool of evasion? Perhaps they need their PATCO moment so that they finally die or evolve beyond benefits-evasion.
And that just inspires companies to think of ways to get away from that bullshit. The big drive to outsource everything to asia is in large part a consequence of the unions. They drove labor over seas. And once the unions in the US are no longer a factor, we should see a significant return of that manufacturing etc to the US. It is already starting. We're seeing a lot of manufacturing theft in the South East and South West... specifically in states where the unions are weak.
You're wrong. Unions are strong in the South, just that they're the ones that represent employers and only employers that abide by the South's playbook.
For example, Volkswagen talks about setting up workers councils, and the entire South's political interests go into an apoplectic fit. The Tennessee state legislature and various political groups intimidated them near instantly; if they unionized, Volkswagen risked losing economic preferences along with other forms of intimidation towards workers. If Volkswagen succeeded, everything and the kitchen sink would be thrown at them to financially fail, as done in the 19th and early 20th Century.
Theft from the South killed the rust belt. The reason it went to rust in the first place is because the South built its economy on theft of Northern business.
That presumes that such information comes from parties interested in fact-finding and have not betrayed the trust of other individuals to gain it. Right now, such information from Snowden cannot be relied on as fact, but as a source of disinformation until a court can properly clear it.
Treating him and the "journalists" and "activists" as fugitives/co-conspirators is the only proper course of action until such are brought to due process. While the evidence against him is certain to convict, that does not give license to hide - it only gives license for others to find and bring him/others in.
Of course, that may be disheartening enough to have people do (-Infinity, Troll/Disagree/Overrated/Flamebait), but modbombing does not change the truth.
3. I love short three month [musician term]. After all I earn in three month more than I need for 15 month of living.
Then you end up paying the "advantage" back due to diseconomies of scale. On the other hand, the more permanent person has less worry over the same 15 months and better benefits.
Such short-term work is part of the problem, not the solution - as most people do not have the ability to outright refuse good work.
It'll take a complete reversion of immigration laws and regulations.
First of all, rip out the 1965 Immigration Act, which enabled these abuses. Second, remove regulations like 20 CFR 655/20 CFR 656, which have no ability to enforce as intended (to prioritize citizens).
One can throw all the money in the world towards an H1-b, but citizens have something more valuable - freedom to move between employers. Guest worker programs only serve to square the circle of having a legal, captive, non-citizen labor supply in a First World country.
Kill off the guest worker programs and then see how much businesses have to cater to citizens - as they cannot offshore everything.
Do you sincerely think that the Russians would house Snowden if he had no intelligence to hand over to them? Housing such an individual has substantial costs, especially with the gated communities they have to use and the people that have to be paid.
Until every "journalist" and source that had any connection to Snowden is unmasked, the answer to your question is indeterminate. It is a non-zero number sufficient enough for the Russian government to house him, but not precise enough to say whether the New York Times received more or less.
It would be amusing to see the Russians in such a dire economic state that they either hand Snowden to the US (in exchange for aid) or that the US makes short work of the Russians left to mind him.
Al Gore, the Sierra Club, and various other interests that push global warming and environmentalism where belief takes precedence over facts and science.
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Modding would be replaced with DLC packs, none of which would be free.
Any attempts to mod the client or server would be construed as cheating.
The Xbox would be the primary platform and the PC would be considered as second-tier.
Russia's not the country of freedom that some think it would be, as freedom is conditional to having a large amount of assets and/or not showing any opposition whatsoever to the current leader. In the US, the thresholds for such activity are much higher.
Of course, a fair and impartial trial will also require him to accept a very high likeliness of losing the case, based on the current evidence against him.
As an industry, they don't need monopoly power. Their main competitor, labor unions, has less market share due to regulations that only apply to labor unions.
In addition, the staffing industry lives off the idea of regulatory evasion, which has a favorable side effect of increased disposability. Both of these negate the need to pursue specific monopoly power.
If there's freedom in RTW, it can be found by applying it to all forms of third-party/indirect representation.
That kind of action is how labor unions ended up gaining power in the early 20th Century. If similar happens in the 21st, expect a similar swing.
It is also why Northern companies figured out that being reasonable to their own would get rid of 90% of such threats. By "winning the hearts and minds" of the population, it inoculates the company from many threats, without the financial or PR expenses of litigative hit-teams. Unfortunately, the lesson has been lost on the South.
The day that Google or Apple tries that stuff is when their competitors start winning significant market share from both.
The wonderful thing about freeing up human resources is they can go on to do other things.
In prior times, there was always a go-to industry that replaced the old. In current times, no such area exists long enough to be viable.
manufacturing has become cheaper and as a result we tend to manufacture more junk.
There's more manufacturing, but the quality has declined.
Actually, the best method for avoiding union interference is to not treat employees like shit, thus removing incentive to join a union.
Agreed. Companies of Northern/Midwestern states figured that treating their employees with respect was the best and cheapest way to limit (and prevent) unionization.
Unfortunately, most of those states, save Ohio in the Midwest, have been overtaken by political interests that ramrodded the Southern way of business. To undo that will be like Hercules cleaning the Augean stables.
On the other hand, I hear Walmart does quite well with their "burn anyone who so much as mentions the word 'union' alive" policy, so I could be way off base.
That's not so much Wal-Mart but a prevalent Southern mindset for any company wishing to do business in the South (or in sufficiently Southernized states like Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin). Volkswagen's intent to form works councils was met with political interests that intimidated enough people to vote against it - out of fear. Similar unionization efforts with other employers have received the same "kill it with fire, no matter how much it costs!" philosophy.
The Southern idea is that every resource on Earth and above must be expended to kill off unionization, then follow it up with an employers' union - like a staffing agency or temporary labor service.
On the other hand, RTW overlooks the employers' union (which can be a staffing agency, temporary labor service, or similar).
If it's a labor union, then yes.
If it's an employers' union (such as a staffing agency, temporary labor service, or the like), then it can be a condition of employment.
The VW effort was met with intimidation by various Southern political interests, along with the Tennessee state legislature.
It doesn't even matter. Google shares a community with those companies. Find a need - Fill a need. If their neighbors start getting pissed at the teamsters then engineers from google will go over there and say "hey guys, want to try out our new automated buses?"...
On the contrary, Google should give the Teamsters a wide berth since "interesting things" tend to happen to entities that oppose them (which are legitimized by a Supreme Court decision). Such engineers would find themselves on the wrong end of things when their buses have otherwise unexplained low reliability.
They're terrible at their jobs. They're really good at getting what they want TODAY. But they piss people off and no one wants to do business with them in the long term. Their whole business model is to monopolize labor so that you can't do business with anyone else. And using that as leverage they just make fucking rediculious demands. You're left with two options... either give them what they want or you have no labor period. Well... that's not fucking acceptable. If I could do business with a dozen different unions and none of them wanted to give me my price that would be one thing. But if I can only deal with ONE union then its the same as dealing with one corporation. They're under no pressure to be reasonable because you have no options.
That applies to staffing agencies, which are no more different than labor unions - yet don't get crushed. Same bad representation for the staff under them, bad contracts for the larger part, and nobody really gets a good deal in the process.
Why do staffing agencies, temporary labor and the like get a pass despite being a union in every function save for being an employer's tool of evasion? Perhaps they need their PATCO moment so that they finally die or evolve beyond benefits-evasion.
And that just inspires companies to think of ways to get away from that bullshit. The big drive to outsource everything to asia is in large part a consequence of the unions. They drove labor over seas. And once the unions in the US are no longer a factor, we should see a significant return of that manufacturing etc to the US. It is already starting. We're seeing a lot of manufacturing theft in the South East and South West... specifically in states where the unions are weak.
You're wrong. Unions are strong in the South, just that they're the ones that represent employers and only employers that abide by the South's playbook.
For example, Volkswagen talks about setting up workers councils, and the entire South's political interests go into an apoplectic fit. The Tennessee state legislature and various political groups intimidated them near instantly; if they unionized, Volkswagen risked losing economic preferences along with other forms of intimidation towards workers. If Volkswagen succeeded, everything and the kitchen sink would be thrown at them to financially fail, as done in the 19th and early 20th Century.
Theft from the South killed the rust belt. The reason it went to rust in the first place is because the South built its economy on theft of Northern business.
Fixed that you to correct for fact.
[automation argument]
Someone has to do the maintenance for the buses.
They'd just rinse and repeat until every bus service is Teamster-organized.
This isn't the South where even the companies get intimidated for showing support towards unionization.
Praise Edward Snowden.
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That presumes that such information comes from parties interested in fact-finding and have not betrayed the trust of other individuals to gain it. Right now, such information from Snowden cannot be relied on as fact, but as a source of disinformation until a court can properly clear it.
Treating him and the "journalists" and "activists" as fugitives/co-conspirators is the only proper course of action until such are brought to due process. While the evidence against him is certain to convict, that does not give license to hide - it only gives license for others to find and bring him/others in.
Of course, that may be disheartening enough to have people do (-Infinity, Troll/Disagree/Overrated/Flamebait), but modbombing does not change the truth.
3. I love short three month [musician term]. After all I earn in three month more than I need for 15 month of living.
Then you end up paying the "advantage" back due to diseconomies of scale. On the other hand, the more permanent person has less worry over the same 15 months and better benefits.
Such short-term work is part of the problem, not the solution - as most people do not have the ability to outright refuse good work.
It's going to be quite hard to have such a mystery if modders end up revealing it or adding it to the game.
It'll take a complete reversion of immigration laws and regulations.
First of all, rip out the 1965 Immigration Act, which enabled these abuses.
Second, remove regulations like 20 CFR 655/20 CFR 656, which have no ability to enforce as intended (to prioritize citizens).
One can throw all the money in the world towards an H1-b, but citizens have something more valuable - freedom to move between employers. Guest worker programs only serve to square the circle of having a legal, captive, non-citizen labor supply in a First World country.
Kill off the guest worker programs and then see how much businesses have to cater to citizens - as they cannot offshore everything.
The exclusivity is what really turned people off about it, not the "privacy" concerns that came up.
Stop asking the H1-b candidates and start asking US citizens. There are plenty of good engineers in the US, much more if you become less picky.
Do you sincerely think that the Russians would house Snowden if he had no intelligence to hand over to them? Housing such an individual has substantial costs, especially with the gated communities they have to use and the people that have to be paid.
Until every "journalist" and source that had any connection to Snowden is unmasked, the answer to your question is indeterminate. It is a non-zero number sufficient enough for the Russian government to house him, but not precise enough to say whether the New York Times received more or less.
It would be amusing to see the Russians in such a dire economic state that they either hand Snowden to the US (in exchange for aid) or that the US makes short work of the Russians left to mind him.
The New York Times is run by Russians?
While the New York Times has gone on leftward slants, it's not run by Russians.
On the other hand, the Russian government (which has received such information from Snowden) is run by Russians.
The Russians won't block it if you've paid them the right amount.
Given that Snowden traded US intelligence information for his life, he will only be subject to the law when he can no longer pay off the Russians.
you'd be required to finish the code BEFORE the job is even posted!
If only that part weren't true, since that's the way guest worker fraud works - itself being a close relative to freelancers.
Al Gore, the Sierra Club, and various other interests that push global warming and environmentalism where belief takes precedence over facts and science.