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  1. Desperation is why Wal-Mart's always the bad guy. on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Read up on monopsony and how employers like them use it to make offers in bad faith.

    Apparently your friends were very desperate for cash to go with an employer that views its employees a problem to be managed - in the Taylor sense of scientific management.

  2. Re: Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Read up on monopsony and monopsony-like forces and how they distort willingness in the job market. It's not just for the deemed-unskilled, it's for everyone that is not an employer(until they get their regulatory comeuppance).

  3. Re: Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Stop giving companies ways to avoid it and it fixes that problem - in the worker's favor.

  4. Re: Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    However, one has to contend with forces normally overcome by economies of scale when with a conventional employer. In addition, things are otherwise more stable wrt compensation/benefits/employment.

    You act as if it's a problem in not starting a business - not everyone is suited for it and that lumping the blame on workers doesnt solve the problem. It just says that you think businesses should be elevated above everyone else.

  5. Then get rid of them completely. on Government To Build 4G Into UK Rural Broadband Plans · · Score: 1

    The only usage cap should be the maximum that the line could consume in a month - an effectively flat rate.

  6. Make it flat-rate and you'll have your customers. on Government To Build 4G Into UK Rural Broadband Plans · · Score: 1

    Throwing usage caps is a non-starter for people wanting to use the service, never mind the lack of incentive to have any accurate measurement.

  7. Privatized police == bad idea. on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 2

    Upscale neighborhoods pay for private security all the time, of course.

    That's usually a sign of their disdain for the public at large or that one is in a Third World country.

    The question is whether crowdfunding—better known for financing things such as games and indie movies, at this point—could catch on as a way of funding residential projects."

    Privatizing law enforcement has the same issue with privatizing prisons - worse quality with more incentive to prosecute.

  8. Re:SLOP syndrome on Sorm: Russia Intends To Monitor "All Communications" At Sochi Olympics · · Score: 1

    You just disappear.

  9. US is not despotic - Russia and PRC are. on Sorm: Russia Intends To Monitor "All Communications" At Sochi Olympics · · Score: 1

    So you are claiming the US government has never engaged in extraordinary rendition and does not operate a prison camp without any due process

    Both of which require a much higher threshold than what is considered worthy of action in Russia or China. In China, it merely requires the uttering of an unharmonious joke against a public official. In Russia, it only requires that you publish something unsavory enough to offend the government.

    In the US, you actually have to be a threat to human life - instead of a journalist, a politician, or an ordinary citizen that said the wrong thing at the wrong time.

  10. Better question: How to remove illegals? on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    The better question is: How can we remove illegals and make sure that the border is the most inhospitable thing for those attempting an illegal crossing?

    Given the deleterious influence on illegals making such crossings, the Border Patrol should just consider illegals as open targets (regardless of who they are) and make a SB1070-like bill(it works, much to the chagrin of employer-backed AZEIR) the law of the land.

  11. What's missing? The transition. on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    For him to be correct, he would have to assume that transitioning from one job to another is effortless and that the relevant skills are picked up by the displaced.

    On the other hand, when more displaced are being created and remain so for longer periods of time, the only way that he can be correct is if one ignores the displaced. Given that the displaced do exist (especially in higher skill ranges) and cannot be ignored, he is incorrect.

    That, and it is far better to have the employers adjust to the displaced (and train for the skills). The job gets done and requirement-related abuse/inflation goes out the window.

  12. Slight difference. on Facebook Building a Company Town · · Score: 1

    The old company towns worked to keep people in for the long term. The only way that businesses come close to that is with their preference for less free labor (temporary workers, guest workers) - and to keep people for shorter terms.

  13. Re:Grab him (and anyone aiding him) already. on Snowden Strikes Again: NSA Mapping Social Connections of US Citizens · · Score: 0

    I'm not selling out the country, Snowden and those aiding/abetting are doing so without the full understanding of their actions.

  14. Re:Grab him (and anyone aiding him) already. on Snowden Strikes Again: NSA Mapping Social Connections of US Citizens · · Score: 1

    Nope, and you're 0 for 3. You've got enough on the President to have him on other things. The other two only show your lack of understanding of the necessity of the NSA's job.

    Anyone that has published this information would be a start. Then work back until you have Snowden isolated from any help and information stops getting published.

  15. Grab him (and anyone aiding him) already. on Snowden Strikes Again: NSA Mapping Social Connections of US Citizens · · Score: 0

    The US government has the resources and the ability to grab him (and anyone who helps him), they just need the bravery to defend this country. Or will it take private citizens, motivated by a strong sense of justice and patriotism, to do that job?

    Of course that goes against the groupthink that betraying your country is OK.

  16. Re: You can thank your USA gov't for this on Justice Department Slaps IBM Over H-1B Hiring Practices · · Score: 1

    In addition, your own advocacy that the US citizen must pay for a choice of a business is absurd and un-American. The worst thing the US could do for its citizens is for the courts to not smite companies for doing these practices, to not take away all the ways to screw with workers(such as permatemping, 29ers/49ers), and not otherwise directly hire a US citizen in good faith.

    The US does not bow to the world.

  17. You're 99.9% wrong on blaming government. on Justice Department Slaps IBM Over H-1B Hiring Practices · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only wrong thing is that the 1965 Immigration Act was passed. Repeal that, remove the regulations from it, and tell the lobbying organizations that complain to EABOD.

    By showing a preference for more despotic countries and locales over US citizens, businesses show a hate for freedom for anyone else that isnt one of them. They made the choice to use these countries instead of hiring in a more free US.

  18. Elop burned the platform, MS provided the means. on A Timely Revision of Elop's "Burning Platform" Memo · · Score: 1

    What Elop won't tell you is that Microsoft provided the accelerant and the orders to use it. It's quite hard to make Nokia a Windows Phone company if you have viable platforms that compete with it

  19. Not surprised at all. on Letter to "Extended Family" Assures That NSA Will "Weather This Storm" · · Score: 1

    If they can withstand the 1970's, the only surprise is the lack of effort given towards bringing Snowden in to face justice in the US.

  20. That's the fastest way to the US. on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    Any move by Snowden will be met with capture.

  21. It's a part of the NSA's job to protect the US. on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    The NSA's done its job quite well even if some may dispute its actions; the major damage has occurred as a result of Snowden.

  22. Never. on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    If anything, it should then be open season on anyone that tries to extradite them or represents those countries.

    In addition, the US (given a more willing POTUS) would just make it a living nightmare for them not to extradite to the US.

  23. Only until Snowden receives very needed justice. on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    That will end when he's finally captured, prosecuted, convicted, and put beyond pardon. Worst case, ensure that he and his immediate helpers can do no more damage - in any way possible.

    Snowden thought wrong and now he puts US citizens of all types in danger by attacking the NSA. No amount of modbombing will change that.

  24. Re: Good. on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    Only if Snowden and his supporters fall on it first..

  25. Won't stop the US, much less the NSA. on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At any point in that chain, the US can still snoop or put US-friendly people/technology in place.